David Drew

Education

Ph.D, Harvard University
M.A., Harvard University
B.A, Syracuse University

Biography

David E. Drew holds the Joseph B. Platt Chair. His principal appointment is in the School of Educational Studies, where his teaching focuses on quantitative research methods, statistical analysis, and model building. He also has cross-appointments in Management, Psychology, and Mathematics. For ten years Mr. Drew served as dean of the School of Educational Studies.

Prior to joining the CGU faculty, he held senior research positions at the Rand Corporation, the National Research Council, and the American Council on Education. Earlier he held a research faculty position at Harvard University, from which he received his PhD, and served as head applications programmer at the Harvard Computing Center.

He is the author of more than 150 publications, including 9 books, about a) the improvement of mathematics and science instruction at all levels of education, b) the development and evaluation of effective undergraduate programs, c) building strong university research programs, and d) health education.

These publications include, for example, a book reporting an evaluation he directed of a billion dollar National Science Foundation program, a Rand report for the White House about Federal funding of biomedical research, and a book about how to increase research productivity in the nation’s universities.

Recently the National University of Singapore celebrated its 100 year anniversary and hosted an international conference about education and globalization. Mr. Drew was invited to give the keynote speech.

In the past few years, he has been a consultant or advisor to the senior leadership of:

The College Board
The Los Angeles Police Department
The Tibetan Buddhists exiled in India (pro bono)
Patagonia, an international clothing company

Current Projects

Mr Drew's research interests focus on the improvement of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and research. His new book about reforming STEM education is in production at Johns Hopkins University Press and will be published next summer. He also conducts research and writes about higher education, and, to a lesser degree, about technology and about health/health education.

His current projects are listed below:

Closing the STEM achievement gap--

Advising and evaluating two NSF-funded institutional collaborations designed to dramatically increase the number of minority STEM bachelor's degrees...about a dozen colleges and universitites in Louisiana and another dozen in Houston...

STEM curriculum reform--

evaluating an innovative, accelerated, interdisciplinary science course at the Joint Sciences Department of the Claremont Colleges...
evaluating a curriculum reform initiative at Texas Southern University, a historically Black institution..
designing an evaluation of a creative mathematics curriculum, which is based entirely on problem sets, at the Vistamar School...

Preparation of Excellent STEM Teachers

Served on the steering committee of Math for America Los Angeles
Served as PI on several Noyce grants to fund fellowships for our teacher interns (virtually all funding goes directly to the students)
Evaluator for a Noyce project to recruit and prepare outstanding middle school STEM teachers.
Will serve as evaluator of an initiative in which CGU will provide mathematics teachers with a deep knowledge of the subject.

Statistics and the teaching of statistics

Writing a book based on his reflections about how to teach statistics effectively, including to students who fear mathematics.
Preparing a grant proposal about how social forces in professions and disciplines at times push researchers to select the wrong statistical techniques.

Buddhist college

Ten years ago, he served as lead academic planner in the launching of a new four year college in Nevada...presently he is advising the Tibetan Buddhists in India, who are launching the Dalai Lama Institute of Higher Education...

Health/Health Education

Working with Samir Chatterjee (School of Information Systems and Technology) preparing proposals and conducting research about how empowering techology can improve health and health education, e.g., can assist veterans who struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

Experience

Claremont Graduate University

Joseph B. Platt Chair (1999-present)
(Principal appointment in Education; appointments also in Executive Management, Psychology, and Mathematical Sciences.)
Kozmetsky Fellow, 2003-2004
Dean, School of Educational Studies (1993-2002 and Fall, 1990)
Chair, Graduate School Faculty Executive Committee (1988-1990)
Professor of Education (1984-present)
Associate Professor of Education (1978-1984)

University of California at Los Angeles (Part-time)

Visiting Professor, Higher Education Program (1992)
Consultant/Senior Research Sociologist,
Higher Education Research Institute (1980-1992)
Visiting Professor, Sociology Department (1986-1990)Joseph B. Platt Chair (1999-present)
(Principal appointment in Education; appointments also in Executive Management, Psychology, and Mathematical Sciences.)

Pre-CGU Appointments

The Rand Corporation
Senior Researcher
Information Sciences Department
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Counci
Director, Science Development Evaluation Study
National Board on Graduate Education
American Council on Education, Office of Research
Research Associate
Associate Director for Information Systems
American University
Sociology Department
Adjunct Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Associate in Education
Harvard University Computing Center
Software engineer
Head software engineer
Staff Analyst

Publications and Presentations

Drew's publications include 7 books (plus 3 new book drafts) and more than 50 technical reports and monographs, and numerous articles and reviews.

The research reported in these publications has been funded by both government agencies (e.g. National Science Foundation, U.S. Public Health Service, The White House) and private agencies (e.g. Mellon Foundation, Thille Foundation, Kluge Foundation, and The American Jewish Committee).

Books:

What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2008, (co-author).
Aptitude Revisited: Rethinking Math and Science Education for America’s Next Century. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Strengthening Academic Science. New York: Praeger, 1985, 283 pages.
Computer Aptitude, Interest and Literacy Profile, a psychometric instrument published by Proâ€‘Ed (Austin, TX), 1984. A book-length manual accompanies this test. (co-author).
Competency, Careers and College, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1978, (editor).
Increasing Student Development Options in College. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1978, (editor).
Science Development: An Evaluation Study. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1975, 182 pages.

Recent Publications and Presentations, i.e., since January 2005

"Systemic Reform in Science, Math, and Technology Education: What Works and Why," International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI, January, 2005.
"Five-Year Results from the NSF Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation," (co-author). International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics, Honolulu, HI, January, 2005.
"Opening the Doors to Mathematics and Science Education: Programs that Work," Claremont Conference on Race and Higher Education, February 2005.
"Academic’s Glass Ceiling: IHEs Must Work Harder to Reverse Prejudiced Beliefs About the Male/Female Achievement Gap." University Business, March, 2005.
"Bank on What College Delivers, Not on What 'Apprentice' Presents," distributed on the Knight Rider network and appeared in about a dozen newspapers, including the Providence Journal, the Detroit Free Press and the Las Vegas Review Journal, March 24, 2005
The Effects of Elementary School Achievement on High Stakes Test Performance in High School, Technical Report prepared for the Los Angeles Unified School District, April, 2005 (co-author).
"Governor’s Mentoring Machinery," Sacramento Bee, June 12, 2005.
Evaluation Team Site Visit Report. Houston Alliance for Minority Participation, 2005, (co-author).
"Getting Grounded in the Post Hometown World," Christian Science Monitor, August 5, 2005 (reprinted in a number of newspapers, including publications in Taiwan and the Vatican).
"Effecting Systemic Change in the University," (co-author). Symposium, Mathematical Association of America "Mathfest," Albuquerque, NM, August, 2005.
Gambling on Ignorance: What the Battle Over a New College Revealed About the Future of Las Vegas, and About the Value of a College Education, manuscript completed, (forthcoming).
"Three Flaws in the Education System and How to Fix Them," The Claremont Letter, October, 2005
"Social Networks of People with Aphasia: Do SLP’s Measure Them? " American Speech, Language and Hearing Association national conference, San Diego, November, 2005, (co-author).
"What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School I: Completing Graduate School and Securing Your First Job," Inside Higher Education, November 30, 2005, (co-author).
"Building Strong Colleges and Effective University Research Programs: Lessons from the US Experience," Keynote Speech, International Conference on Education, Singapore, December, 2005.
"What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School II: Teaching, Service, Research, and Grantsmanship," Inside Higher Education, December 8, 2005, (senior author).
"What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School III: Tenure, Rank, and Working with Department Chairs," December 28, 2005, (co-author).
"What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School IV: Life as an Academic," January 13, 2006, (senior author).
What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School, Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2008, (co-author).
"Effective Leadership for Urban Universities," Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, January, 2006.
"Too Many Options Dilute Shared Experience," Christian Science Monitor, March 06, 2006.
ScienceMaps: An Online Resource Portal for Standards-Based Science Instruction Using Geographic Information System Technolgy", in Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications, in press (co-author).
"Access and Achievement in Mathematics and Science Education," in Perkins, L. (ed.), Race and American Higher Education, forthcoming.

Professional Activities, Panel Memberships, Awards

Advisor to the Tibetan Buddhists in India (pro bono)
Advisory Panel, The Natural Learning Institute, 2007-present.
Steering Committee, Math for America, Los Angeles, 2007-present.
WASC Advisory Panel on the Evaluation of Systematic Learning Objectives in California Community Colleges, 2006-2007
Kozmetsky Fellow in Transdisciplinary Studies, 2003-2004
Editorial Advisory Board, Higher Education Abstracts, 1994-present.
External review panel, Houston Alliance for Minority Participation, 2001-present.
External review panel, Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation, 1996-present.
Advisory Committee on Research and Development, The College Board, 1996-1999.
Subcommittee on Near Term Issues in Access and Admissions, 1999.
Citation of Special Recognition for Distinguished Service, Claremont Graduate School Alumni Association, 1995.
Advisory committee for the project on research competitiveness (EPSCoR) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993-1996.
Advisory committee for the Hughes Corporation K-12 education program Annenberg Public Broadcasting project, 1995.
Advisory panel for a project "The Role and Effects of College Employer Partnerships on Science Education in Two-Year Colleges" conducted under NSF funding by the National Center for the Development of Education, 1995.