Maureen
W. McClure
Associate
Professor, Administrative and Policy Studies, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, US
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.
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
or
5K38
Forbes Quad
School of
Education
University
of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh,
PA 15260
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Work Phone |
412.648.7114 |
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GINIE Office |
412.624.1775 |
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FAX |
412.624.2609 |
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Ph.D. |
Education |
University of Rochester |
1984 |
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MS |
Educational Administration |
University of Rochester |
1982 |
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MBA |
Applied Economics in the Non-Profit Sector |
University of Rochester |
1980 |
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MA |
Secondary Education |
Allegheny College |
1971 |
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BA |
English Literature |
Allegheny College |
1969 |
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