Rebecca Hartzler

Staff Information

Role

Senior Associate, Community College Program Development

Bio

Rebecca Hartzler is senior associate for community college program development at Carnegie, where she serves as a liaison with national foundations. She comes to Carnegie from Edmonds Community College near Seattle where she served as director of Grants and Special Projects, with a special focus on STEM projects. A tenured instructor in physics, Hartzler started teaching in community colleges in 1984. She also served as the Dean of Science and Mathematics at Seattle Central Community College, where she worked on the college’s successful Achieving the Dream grant.  

During the past ten years she designed, wrote and managed several grants in STEM education. The focus of her work has been on systemic transformation of STEM departments in support of student success and on professional development for community college faculty across the nation in integrating mathematics across the curriculum. She has been active in the quantitative literacy education community and is a founding board member of the National Numeracy Network. 

Address

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
51 Vista Lane
Stanford, CA 94305