Dr. Jill Alexa Perry is the Executive Director of the
Carnegie Project on the Educational Doctorate (CPED) and an
Associate Professor of Practice in the Educational Foundations,
Organizations and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh. Her
research focuses on professional doctorate preparation in
education, organizational change in higher education, and faculty
leadership roles. Currently she is researching the ways EdD
programs teach practitioners to utilize research evidence. She
teaches and coaches how to teach Improvement Science in EdD
programs. Her books include The Improvement Science Dissertation in
Practice, The EdD and the Scholarly Practitioner, and In Their Own
Words: A Journey to the Stewardship of the Practice in
Education.
Dr. Perry is a graduate of the University of Maryland, where she
received her PhD in International Education Policy. She holds an MA
in Higher Education Administration and a BA in Spanish and
International Studies from Boston College. She has over 25 years of
experience in leadership and program development in education and
teaching experience at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate,
and graduate levels in the US and abroad. She is a Fulbright
Scholar (Germany) and a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Paraguay).
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