Co-Directors:

Lars G. Björk, Ph.D., (vita in PDF) joined the faculty in January, 1996, coming to the University from Georgia Southern University where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Technology and Research, and Director of the Leadership Training Consortium.

Dr. Björk, is the Director of the Institute for Education Research (IER) and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky. In addition, he serves as the Co-Director of the University Council for Educational Administration’s Center for the Study of the Superintendency. Dr. Björk has served as a Senior Associate Editor of Educational Administration Quarterly and is presently a member of the Editorial Boards of The South African Journal of Education, Journal of Thought, and the Journal of School Public Relations. In addition, he is an Acquisitions Editor for the Journal of Research on Leadership Education.

In addition, he has served as guest editor for special issues including: Education and Urban Society (1993), “Minorities in Higher Education”; Educational Administration Quarterly (2000) “Women in the Superintendency”; and, The Journal of School Leadership (2003), “The Superintendent Shortage: Myth and Reality”. He has co-edited several books including Higher Education Research and Public Policy (1988), Minorities in Higher Education (1994), and The New Superintendency: Advances in Research and Theories of School Management and Educational Policy (2001, with C. C. Brunner), and School District Superintendents: Role Expectations, Professional Preparation, Development and Licensing (in press-with Theodore Kowalski).

Dr. Björk has also co-authored, The Study of the American Superintendency 2000: A look at the Superintendent of Education in the New Millennium (2000, with T. Glass and C.C. Brunner), The Superintendent as CEO: Standards-based Performance (in press-with J. Hoyle, T. Glass & L. Collier) as well as co-authored chapters several chapters on leadership and politics (8 & 12) with Theodore Kowalski in his book The School Superintendent: Theory, Practice, and Cases (2005).

Dr. Björk holds Ph.D. and an Ed.S. in Educational Administration, an M.Ed. in Public Administration, an M.Ed. in Secondary Education, and a B. A. in Education from the University of New Mexico. He served on the faculties of the University of New Mexico, University of South Carolina and Georgia Southern University. His areas of academic interest and expertise include organizational change, school reform, organizational theory, school-university collaboration, and qualitative research methodology.

In addition, he served as the Executive Assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Education (NIE), Regional Director for University Research Corporation, and as a senior staff member of Westinghouse Learning Corporation. He has served as a consultant to Universities in the United States and Europe, school districts, state governments, National Associations, foundations and international education agencies. He has been a member of advisory, coordinating committees, and task forces in the United States Department of Education and presented keynote addresses at international conferences on educational leadership.

C. Cryss Brunner, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota and joint director of the UCEA Center for the Study of the Superintendency. Dr. Brunner received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1993 after 27 years in public schools as a teacher and an administrator. Her research on women, power, the superintendency, and the gap between public schools and their communities has appeared in such journals as Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Policy, Journal for a Just and Caring Education, The Journal of Educational Administration, Policy Studies Journal, The School Administrator, Educational Considerations, Urban Education, Contemporary Education, and the Journal of School Leadership. In addition to being the author of, Principles of Power: Women Superintendents and the Riddle of the Heart (2000), she has edited one, Sacred Dreams: Women and the Superintendency (1999), and co-edited one with Lars Bjork, The New Superintendency (2001). She is one of the co-authors of the American Association of School Administrators’ Ten-Year Study of the School Superintendency (2000). With Margaret Grogan, she has just completed a national study (2003) of all women superintendents and central office administrators, funded by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).

Brunner is the 1996-97 recipient of the National Academy of Education's Spencer Fellowship for her work on the relationship between superintendents' conceptions of power and decision- making processes. She is the 1998 recipient of the University Council for Educational Administration's Jack Culbertson Award for her outstanding contributions to the field as a junior professor.

Charles Hausman, Ph.D., (vita in PDF) joined the faculty in 2006. He has served as a public school teacher, administrator, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Associate Superintendent of the Salt Lake City School District (SLCSD). Before joining the SLCSD, he served on the faculties in the College of Education at the University of Maine and the University of Utah, receiving awards for outstanding teaching at both campuses.

Dr. Hausman attained his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy from Vanderbilt University, a M.Ed. from Texas A&M University at Commerce, and a B.S. from Texas Wesleyan University. His areas of academic interests include the educational consequences of school choice for students, families, teachers, and principals; program evaluation and data-driven decision-making; and the role of the principal in school improvement.  He has conducted evaluations funded by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and OERI.  In addition, he has published over 20 articles in refereed journals and edited books, and made over 30 presentations at national conferences.

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