Bryk receives honorary degree.

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BRYK HONORED BY BOSTON COLLEGE
Anthony S. Bryk '70, president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, was presented with an honorary degree by Boston College during commencement ceremonies today. According to the Boston College press statement, Bryk has both inspired and informed school reform efforts across the country. In 2008, Bryk became the ninth president of the Carnegie Foundation, an independent policy and research center that aims to support changes in American education by building stronger connections between teaching and learning. Since then, the foundation has focused on identifying and promoting strategies to improve college success rates for students attending community colleges.

A consulting professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University, Bryk also taught at the University of Chicago, where he was the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education. While in Chicago, Bryk founded the Center for Urban School Improvement, an organization that supports reform in Chicago Public Schools, and the Consortium on Chicago School Research, a federation of research groups that study ways to advance and assess urban school reform.

Bryk has been honored with the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Scholarship by the Fordham Foundation, and the American Educational Research Association's highest honor, the Distinguished Career Contributions Award.