Maureen W. McClure

Associate Professor, Administrative and Policy Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, US

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

I am an associate professor in the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh , and a Senior Research Associate in the Institute for International Studies in Education.

My primary emphasis is research, teaching and technical assistance on issues of education finance, Internet technology and regional economic development. My primary work is related to regions in crisis and transitional economies. I am interested in the financial sustainability of education through professional collaborative relationships in chronically weak economies. Here is a short vita.

I am the Director of the Global Information Network In Education (GINIE) project. GINIE is a network for professional development for those working internationally in nations in crisis and transition. It is supported by USAID's Human Capacity Development Center. Here is a chapter about GINIE as a new development strategy that I wrote for the American Education Finance Association.

I currently teach courses in Strategic Management, Resources Management, Economics of Education and Human Resources.

 (NEW!) I write a little poetry every now and again.

Current Projects

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK

In April 2000, I was invited to be a member of the US delegation to the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal.   At the meeting the Ministers of Education attending the crisis session requested that the ad hoc group of emergency educators be formalized.  This group, of which the GINIE project is a member, had been meeting for over five years.  Consequently, the Interagency Network on Education in Emergencies (INEE), led by UNESCO, UNHCR and UNICEF, held its first formal meeting in Geneva in November 2000.

In January 1998, I was invited to Iraq by UNESCO to work on the effects of sanctions on education. Here is a report on the effects of sanctions written by the Iraqi Ministry of Education. Here is a copy of my trip report. Here is a copy of some observations I had with comments from Frank Method, UNESCO/Washington, D.C. Here is a draft proposal for a UNESCO National Commission professional development center for educational computing for humanitarian assistance. Following my visit, the UNESCO office began publishing a newsletter about their activities.

In October 1997 I was invited to Bosnia and Herzegovina by UNESCO to conduct a seminar on education finance with officials from the Federal Ministry of Education and the cantonal Ministry of Education in Travnik. Here is a draft copy of the trip essay and a photo of me taken with GINIE colleague Zlatan Sabic, the deputy director of the Management Information Technologies Center in Sarajevo.

In June 1997 I was in BiH to attend the first National Education Conference after the war in June 1997, and as a partner on a World Bank team in August 1996. Here is a copy of a technical report on education and telecommunications policy in BiH that I prepared with the help of some GINIE colleagues for UNICEF. Here is a draft copy of a think piece for a technology plan for learning centers in BiH that I wrote in December 1996.

In May 1996, I was a higher education finance expert on a team from the University of Pittsburgh working with the National Academy for Educational Administration (NAEA), an agency of the State Education Commission in Beijing, on revising their training programs for university administrators. This project was funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and brought NAEA staff to Pittsburgh for short-term training in higher education management, policy, and finance in the summer of 1997.

Look here for my research, teaching and professional development activities in 2000-2001.

RECENT DOMESTIC WORK

I was a Co-Principal Investigator, Pennsylvania Digitized Object Repository (PEN-DOR) Project, Link 2 Learn, School of Information Sciences. GINIE is a partner with Pennsylvania schools in the construction of teacher-created materials archives which can be used by international partners working in education as a humanitarian response.

I worked with NEA on the development of a strategy paper for school board membership. Here is a copy of the outline.

On June 11, 1998 I gave a presentation with the Tri-State Area School Study on new Pennsylvania local tax reform legislation. Here is my slide show.

 

Hot List

 GINIE (Global Information Networks in International Education) Project

 PEN-DOR (Pennsylvania-Digitized Object Repository)

 IEQ (Improving Educational Quality)

  Pilar's Syllabus on Socio-cultural Factors behind Migration and Refugee Movements

 

Contact Information

mmcclure+@pitt.edu

or

ginie+@pitt.edu

 

5K38 Forbes Quad

School of Education

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Work Phone

412.648.7114

 

 

GINIE Office

412.624.1775

 

FAX

412.624.2609

 

Biographical Information

 

Ph.D.

Education

University of Rochester

1984

 

MS

Educational Administration

University of Rochester

1982

 

MBA

Applied Economics in the Non-Profit Sector

University of Rochester

1980

 

MA

Secondary Education

Allegheny College

1971

 

BA

English Literature

Allegheny College

1969

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Personal

Recovering workaholic.

Married to a dashing pilot of a husband, Leonard Burbank Richards, 3d

Two steprats LB4 and James, one scrufty sister Christine and brother-in-law Perry, one warhero father and adoring stepmom Barbara, and a couple of ratty ol friends who occasionally feign mild tolerance.

 

Last Revised: Wednesday, June 13, 2001