Dr. Nancy Shapiro

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Job title: Associate Vice Chancellor, University System of Maryland
Bio summary: Dr. Nancy Shapiro is the associate vice chancellor for education and outreach at the University System of Maryland. Her work focuses on P–20 STEM education, teacher preparation, and creative ways of reaching state college attainment goals. Her expertise includes K–16 and higher education policy, college readiness, teacher education, school–university partnerships, STEM education policy, and learning communities. As the USM director of PreK–16 partnerships, Dr. Shapiro works with 12 institutions of the University System of Maryland, two-year colleges, and K–12 schools to foster critical partnerships and learning communities to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Maryland. Prior to her work at the University System, she directed the freshman writing program at the University of Maryland and served as the founding director of the College Park Scholars Program, the first interdisciplinary living-learning programs at the University of Maryland. She has extensive experience in undergraduate education reform, including research, teaching and administrative leadership roles in composition and rhetoric, writing across the curriculum, science and mathematics reform initiatives, faculty development, and general education. Dr. Shapiro graduated Phi Beta Kappa, BA in history from Brandeis University, and earned her MAT from the University of Delaware, and PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Maryland.