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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has named Thomas Carey as a new Senior Partner for Network Growth and Rebecca T. Hartzler as a Senior Associate for External Partners. Both will contribute to Carnegie’s work in improving student success in the nation’s community colleges.
Carey has been an award-winning teacher, researcher and executive in Canadian universities for over three decades, and is known for fostering the effective use of technology in higher education. He will lead Carnegie’s efforts to sustain and spread the innovations developed through a networked community of educators, researchers, developers, and students involved in the Foundation’s work in developmental education in community college. This initiative aims to turn around the alarming failure rate of community college students in mathematics. Carey will also be a key liaison with the national foundations supporting this work.
Carey is a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Center for Research in Math and Science Education at San Diego State University, where he has been leading leading a network of community college math departments in three California regions to rethink their developmental math offerings. In parallel with his pioneering leadership in California, Carey has been directing a program in Knowledge Mobilization for Exemplary Teaching and Learning for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (Canada) across colleges and universities in the Toronto area.
Hartzler also has a community college leadership background, and will work closely with Carey in the liaison role 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 (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) 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.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching seeks to revitalize more productive research and development in education toward the Triple Aims of Improvement: more active, engaging environments for student participation and personal growth, greater effectiveness overall in advancing student learning, and increased efficiency in the use of educational resources.
