Judith D. Singer

Judith D. Singer
Alma mater University at Albany, SUNY
Harvard University
Occupation Academic
Employer Harvard University

Judith D. Singer is an American academic - statistician and social scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education)[1] and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University.[2]

She graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1976 and she began her academic carrier at Harvard the same year. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics in 1983, became an Assistant Professor of Education in 1984 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988.[3][4] In 1993 she was appointed Professor and was named James Bryant Conant Professor of Education in 2001.[5]

Before becoming the second Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University in 2008[6] she served as academic dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1999 to 2004 and acting dean from 2001 to 2002.[7][8]

Singer was the first woman to be both elected a member of the National Academy of Education[9] and as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[10][11] Numerous honors for her work, include also a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the American Educational Research Association.[12] She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board of Education Sciences[13] and a founding Board member of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.[14] In 2014 she was named the recipient of 13th annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences from the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama.[15]

Singer has written nearly 100 papers and three books: By Design: Planning Better Research in Higher Education,[16] and Who Will Teach: Policies that Matter[17] (both published by Harvard University Press) and Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence[18]

References

  1. ↑ "Judith D. Singer". Harvard Graduate School of Education. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  2. ↑ "Judith D. Singer". Harvard University Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity. Harvard University. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Judith D. Singer named senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity". Harvard Gazette. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  4. ↑ "Judith D. Singer". provost.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  5. ↑ "Judith D. Singer named senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity". Harvard Gazette. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  6. ↑ "Judith D. Singer named senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity". Harvard Gazette. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  7. ↑ "Ellen Condliffe Lagemann named Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education". Harvard Gazette. 2002-04-04. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  8. ↑ "Judith D. Singer". faculty.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  9. ↑ "Judith Singer - National Academy of Education". National Academy of Education. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  10. ↑ "List of Fellows of the American Statistical Association". Wikipedia. 2017-12-01.
  11. ↑ Inc., Advanced Solutions International,. "ASA Fellows List". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  12. ↑ "Review of Research". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  13. ↑ "Institute of Education Sciences (IES): National Board for Education Sciences Member Biographies". ies.ed.gov. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  14. ↑ "SREE | Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness". www.sree.org. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  15. ↑ "Thirteenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award | UAB School of Public Health". www.soph.uab.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  16. ↑ "By Design — Richard J. Light, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  17. ↑ "Who Will Teach? — Richard J. Murnane, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett, James J. Kemple, Randall J. Olsen | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  18. ↑ "Home Page". gseacademic.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-07.



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