Faculty
Stuart Biegel, Senior Lecturer (J.D.)
biegel@ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: legal issues in cyber technology, legal and policy relating to bilingual education, the Fourteenth Amendment and schooling, the “safe” schools provision, teacher empowerment
Robert Cooper, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Education, UCLA)
cooper@gseis.ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: school policy and practice, equity-minded reforms, and politics of education
Diane Durkin, Adjunct Professor (Ph.D., British and American   Language and Literature, UCI)
durkin@humnet.ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: first and second language acquisition, writing across the curriculum, early literacy, advanced composition and composition theory
Cindy C. Kratzer, Lecturer (Ph.D., Education, UCLA)
ckratzer@ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: professional learning communities, lesson study, qualitative research methodologies, literacy
Patricia M. McDonough, Co-Director ELP, Professor HEOC (Ph.D., Education, Stanford University)
mcdonough@gseis.ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: access and equity in education, college choice and admissions, sociology of education, organizational theory, higher education policy analysis, stratification of individuals and institutions in education, and qualitative research. author of Choosing Colleges
Linda P. Rose, Co-Director ELP, Adjunct Professor (Ph.D., Sociology and Anthropology of Education, UCLA)
rose@gseis.ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: educational leadership, problem-based learning, collaboration, action research, course assessment
Lisa Sugimoto, Lecturer (Ed.D., ELP, UCLA)
lisasugimoto@yahoo.com
Areas of Interest: student services; strategic planning; career development; professional development (currently Vice President for Student and Learning Services, Pasadena City College)
Eugene Tucker, Adjunct Professor (Ed.D., Educational Administration, UCLA)
etucker@ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: professional development of educators, leadership, organizational development, educational policy, and school-based change (23 years as a superintendent of four California school districts)
Richard Wagoner, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Higher Education, University of Arizona)
wagoner@gseis.ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: community colleges, gender parity in faculty, community college faculty in terms of a globalized economy, organizational studies
Wellford W. Wilms, Professor (Ph.D., Education, Berkeley)
wilms@gseis.ucla.edu
Areas of Interest: implications of changing private sector organizational forms for education, using action research to foster broad participation within organizations, rebuilding social fabric at the local level to sustain positive changes, use of mediation to resolve conflicts
Fellows
Yasmin Delahoussaye, (Ed.D., ELP, UCLA)
Areas of Interest: student development in higher education, community college administration, low income/first generation college students, access and equity, enrollment management, student attrition, persistence, and retention (currently Vice President of Student Services, Los Angeles Valley College)
Lynette Merriman, (Ed.D., ELP, UCLA)
Areas of Interest: parent involvement in higher education, crisis management, college student affairs, and leadership (currently Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs, USC)
Lillian Utsumi, (Ed.D., ELP, UCLA)
Areas of Interest: teacher leadership development, school change/reform, ESL and EFL teaching and learning (currently an Educational Consultant; retired LAUSD administrator)