Carolyn Carr, PhD, is a professor of Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies in the Graduate School of Education. Over half of all school principals in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas County schools received their administrative preparation and licensure at Portland State. With faculty members like Professor Carolyn Carr, a former K-12 schoolteacher, counselor and administrator herself, PSU is helping provide skilled, diverse, data-informed, and tech-savvy leadership for our region's schools.

Dr. Carr graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in English, school counseling and educational administration. Her scholarship and areas of interest have long been educational leadership, diversity, and the policy and politics of education. She was the founding president of the Oregon Professors of Educational Administration and guided its affiliation as a charter member of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. She has served as a member of the Executive Board of NCPEA and is the PSU Plenum Representative to the University Council of Educational Administration. Currently, she serves on the State Action for Educational Leadership Programs (SAELP) consortium of the Oregon Department of Education, and the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators (COSA)licensure committee. Dr. Carr is the research director for the Oregon Professors of Educational Administration (ORPEA).

The Oregon Department of Education awarded her its Distinguished Service Award for her leadership in the SAELP Consortium. NCPEA recognized her service on the executive board and her contributions to the preparation and renewal of educational leaders. She co-authored a book entitled: Winning women: Women leaders in education and served as editor of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration 2004 Yearbook: Educational leadership: Knowing the way, showing the way, going the way. She is the editor of a special winter 2008 edition of the Educational Leadership Review, which will focus on the unique Oregon story of administrative licensure standards change with its focus on diversity, cultural competence, and teaching and learning.

Currently, Dr. Carr serves as the coordinator of the Executive Leadership licensure program in the GSE, that prepares educators for both the Initial Administrator License, and the Continuing Administrator License for service in Oregon schools.

Carolyn Carr, PhD
Portland State University
Graduate School of Education
PO Box 751
615 SW Harrison
Room 506G
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Phone: 503-725-4694
Fax: 503-725-3200
Email: carrc1@pdx.edu