What We Talk About When We Talk About Policy: Science, Mathematics, Higher Education and the Rest of Us

Patricia Maloney

Thursday, 09 Oct 2008 at 12:30 pm – 408 Curtiss Hall

Patricia Maloney is president of Higher Education Consulting and Research, and is a researcher and practitioner with a background in higher education policy and management at public and private colleges and universities. She has served as a project manager for the Learning Productivity Network at the University at Buffalo and the NSF-funded Change and Sustainability Project of the Math Science Partnerships. She has also managed the Presidents’ Network for the Education of Teachers and was director of the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative. Maloney has taught at Drexel and George Mason Universities, and is currently engaged in research on STEM college faculty engagement in K-16 partnerships. She received her Ph.D. in higher education at the University at Buffalo. A poster fair and light refreshments will precede the talk at 12:00 noon in 142 Curtiss Hall.

Cosponsored By:
  • Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
  • Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE)
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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