Education Partnerships
University of California
Office of the President
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Oakland, CA 94607-5201
Russell Rumberger was appointed Vice Provost — Education Partnerships in September 2010. As Professor of Education at The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Rumberger has devoted his professional life to identifying and redressing inequities in educational quality and access. Over a distinguished career, Rumberger has published on a wide range of issues in education, including early childhood education, school segregation, the achievement gap, school dropouts, and the educational challenges of English language learners. In addition, Rumberger directed the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute (UC LMRI) for 10 years, from 1998 to 2008, and built the multi-campus research unit into an internationally recognized research institute that funded important research on one of California’s and the nation’s fastest-growing populations, English language learners.
Currently Rumberger has also directed the California Dropout Research Project (CDRP). With funding from major foundations, the CDRP conducts research and has developed a policy agenda to address the problem of school dropouts in California. Since its inception in 2006, two pieces of legislation addressing the dropout crisis have been signed into law based on CRDP recommendations.
Professor Rumberger has recently served on two National Research Council (NRC) committees, the national advisory committee for the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) project, Gubernatorial Action for Dropout Prevention and Recovery, and served as a consultant to the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Task Force on Dropouts.
He has just completed a book on high school dropouts that will be published by Harvard University Press in 2011.
He received a Ph.D. in Education and a M.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.