| Andrea K. Rorrer University of Utah |
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Andrea Rorrer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Utah. She is also the Director of the Utah Education Policy Center at the University of Utah. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. Her dissertation Leadership and Equity: From Reproduction to Reconstruction: An Institutional Analysis was awarded the American Education Research Association, Division A "Education Administration" 2001 Dissertation Award. Her scholarship focuses on districts and the state as actors in organizational and institutional change, particularly those changes aimed at increasing equity in student access and outcomes. Her publications have appeared in Educational Administration Quarterly, Theory into Practice, UCEA Review, and the Journal of Educational Policy. The 2006 Politics of Education Yearbook, "Power, Education, and the Politics of Social Justice", which she co-edited with Catherine Lugg, has recently been published as a special issue of Educational Policy. She is the 2006 recipient of the Jack A. Culbertson Award, which is given annually by the University Council for Educational Administration to “an outstanding junior professor of educational administration in recognition of his/her contributions to the field.”
She has conducted policy research and evaluations for Centro de la Familia de Utah, the Utah State Office of Education, the Utah Legislature, and the cities of South Salt Lake, Holiday, and Salt Lake County on educational topics such as the Latina/o achievement gap, Comprehensive School Reform, charter schools, and district governance.
She teaches courses such as organizational change, program evaluation, qualitative methods, districts in educational reform, women in educational leadership and policy, and the politics of equity and social justice in educational leadership and policy. She is an associate editor for Educational Administration Quarterly, a features co-editor for the UCEA Review, and an editorial board member for the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. Her prior professional experiences include serving as a policy analyst, research associate, school administrator, and a classroom teacher.