Dr. Samuel Henry has taught and served in variety of roles in education and academia. He currently coordinates the doctoral program in the Graduate School of Education.
Samuel D. Henry, EdD, associate professor, serves as coordinator of the GSE’s Educational Leadership doctoral program and chairs the Oregon Commission on Children and Families.
He received a BS degree from DC Teachers College, taught in secondary schools for four years in Washington D.C., and Binghamton, New York. Dr. Henry earned a master’s in curriculum development and a doctorate in urban education from Columbia University Teachers College with a field ethnographic study of the confluence of culture, curriculum and student’s lives.
He taught and directed an undergraduate urban teacher education program (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), directed the federal school desegregation assistance center for Region II: NY, NJ, VI, PR, served as a university presidential assistant (San Jose State University), an associate dean (SJSU and CSUN), assistant vice president for Student Affairs (SJSU). He is a founding executive director of Portland Educational Network, an educational reform collaborative, an urban fellow (PSU College of Urban and Public Affairs) and department chair (DePauw University and PSU Curriculum and Instruction). He has also served on the City of Portland Children’s Investment Fund, the Multnomah County Commission on Children and Families, and started a study abroad program in Morelia, Mexico for American teachers.
His research interests include organizational leadership and politics, culture contact, curriculum development, and international education.
Samuel Henry, EdD
Portland State University
Graduate School of Education
PO Box 751
615 SW Harrison
Room 596 SBA
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Phone: 503-725-3304
Fax: 503-725-8475
Email: henrys@pdx.edu
