Dr. Nancy S. Shapiro holds an appointment as Research Scholar in the College of Education, Department of Teaching, Learning, Policy and Leadership (TLPL), and she served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Education and Outreach and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for P-20 Education at the University System of 浪花直播 (USM) for 27years before retiring from USM in 2025. Currently, Dr. Shapiro is Senior Advisor to the Civic Learning and Democracy Coalition, housed at American University鈥檚 Sine Democracy Policy and Innovation Lab.
As Associate Vice Chancellor from 1997-2024, she directed the University System of 浪花直播 P-20 partnership efforts, developing collaborations that fostered critical partnerships and learning communities to improve the quality of teaching and learning for 浪花直播鈥檚 teachers and students from kindergarten through college. As the principal investigator on major federal grants totaling over $50 million dollars from and the National Science Foundation (MSP) and the U.S. Department of Education (TQE), she worked to build sustainable partnerships between colleges and universities and public schools which support high quality professional development in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) content areas and prepare future teachers for urban schools. Her work on the USM STEM Initiative focused on increasing the number of STEM teachers produced by the public higher education institutions in 浪花直播, and her last funded project directed $4 million dollars to student success initiatives across the twelve USM universities.
Prior to her work at the University System of 浪花直播, she was the founding director of the College Park Scholars Program at the University of 浪花直播 (1994), the first interdisciplinary living-learning honors program at the University. She also served as director of the First Year Writing Program in the English Department. Her publications include three co-authored books, Scenarios for Teaching Writing (NCTE, 1996), Creating Learning Communities (Jossey Bass, 1999), and Sustaining Learning Communities (Jossey Bass, 2004); and numerous articles and reviews on a variety of undergraduate education topics, and an edited collection of essays on K-16 statewide initiatives in Metropolitan Universities (Fall 1999). Dr. Shapiro served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Learning Communities Research and Communication Education, and as a trustee of Fielding Graduate University.
Dr. Shapiro graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and earned her Ph. D. in in Education from the University of 浪花直播.
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Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Brandeis University, 1969.
M. Ed. with Honors, University of Delaware, 1972.
Phi Kappa Phi, University of 浪花直播, 1984.
Pan-Hellenic Teaching Award Nomination, University of 浪花直播, 1993.
Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, Bryn Mawr College, 1996.
Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration (Bryn Mawr), 1996.
University of 浪花直播 Parents Council Outstanding Teaching Award Nomination, 1997.
Leadership 浪花直播, Class of 2002.
Harry S. Levitan Education Prize, Brandeis University Alumni Association, 2004
Fielding Graduate University, Trustee Emerita, 2012
Frostburg State University, Outstanding Leadership and Engagement Award, 2024
University of 浪花直播 College of Education Outstanding Alumni Award, 2024
Books
Laufgraben, J., and Shapiro, N. (2004). Sustaining and Expanding Learning Communities. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers.
Shapiro, N., and Levine, J. (1999). Creating Learning Communities: A Practical Guide to Winning Support, Organizing for Change, and Implementing Programs. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers.
Shapiro, N. (Invited Editor). (1999). Metropolitan Universities, K-16 Issue, 10 (2).
Anson, C., Graham, J., Jolliffe, D., Shapiro, N., and Smith, C. (1993). Scenarios for Teaching Writing: Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice. Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Articles, Chapters, and Published Essays
Shapiro, N., Morgan, D. & Feagin, K. "Minding Curricular Change: Sustaining Mathematics Reforms at 浪花直播 Colleges and Universities," presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education, January 2020.
Shapiro, N., Morgan, D., Feagin, K. Short, F. (Towson University) & Hamman J. (Montgomery College) "Mathematics Pathways and The Paradox of Choice," at the AACU Annual Conference, Washington, DC, January 2020.
Shapiro, N. & Morgan, D. "Connections Between Dual Enrollment Experiences and Science Degree Attainment: An Examination of Longitudinal Evidence," presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education, January 2019.
Morgan, D., Shapiro, N. & Feagin, K. "Using Logic Models to Understand Collaborative Network Development, Growth, and Sustainability," at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, November 2019. May, D., Susskind, D., and Shapiro, N. (2013). Faculty Grassroots Leadership in Science Education Reform: Considerations for Institutional Change, Culture, and Context. Creative Education, 4(7A), July.
Shapiro, N., Morgan, D., Hall,S., (2018 in press). Counting on our Future: First in the World (FITW) 浪花直播 Mathematics Reform Initiative (MMRI) in Emerging issues in Mathematics Pathways, The Dana Center, (coming in 2018)
May, D., Susskind, D., and Shapiro, N. (2013). Faculty Grassroots Leadership in Science Education Reform: Considerations for Institutional Change, Culture, and Context. Creative Education, Vol. 4, No. 7A (special issue on Higher Education), July 2013.
Shapiro, N. (2013). When the Students We Have Are Not the Students We Want: The Transformative Power of Learning Communities. Learning Communities Research and Practice, 1(1), Article 17.
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Shapiro, N. (2008). Powerful Pedagogy: Learning Communities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The Journal of Negro Education, 77 (3) (Summer 2008).
Frank, J. and Shapiro, N. (2010) Report of the leadership collaborative retreat. APLU/SMTI, Paper 1. Washington, DC: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
Frank, J. and Shapiro, N. (2010). Spring 2010 TLC team leaders survey Washington, DC: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
Shapiro, N., Frank, J., and Susskind, D. (2007). Studying Higher Education Change and Sustainability Efforts in the Context of PK-16 Partnerships. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Chicago, Illinois, April 12, 2007.
Shapiro, N., and McAdams, K. (2006). Discovery Projects: Contextualized Research Experiences for College Sophomores. In Student Engagement and Information Literacy, Washington D.C.: American Council ofResearch Librarians.
Shapiro, N. (2006). Review of 鈥淟earning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education,鈥 by B. L. Smith et al. Journal of Higher Education, May/June 77(3), 550-553.
Shapiro, N. (2004). Learning Communities: Renewing a Commitment to Civic Engagement. In J.A. Galura et al. (Eds.) Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities. Ann Arbor: OCSL Press, University of Michigan, 20-25.
Shapiro, N. (2003). University of 浪花直播 College Park Scholars: Creating a Coherent Lens for General Education. Learning Communities at Research Universities, Washington D.C.: American Association of American Universities, 39-42.
Shapiro, N. (2003). The 浪花直播 Partnership for Teaching and Learning: A State System Perspective on K-16.
Peer Review 5 (2), 24-26.
Langenberg, D., and Shapiro, N. (2002). Systemic Reform: K-16 Partnerships. Basic Education Monthly Forum,
46 (6), 3-6.
Shapiro, N. (2002). Learning about Learning Communities. In C. Anson (Ed.), Casebook for Writing across the Curriculum Instructors, New York: Oxford University Press, 266-271.
Levine, J., and Shapiro, N. (2002).&苍产蝉辫;贬补谤谤测&苍产蝉辫;笔辞迟迟别谤&苍产蝉辫;骋辞别蝉&苍产蝉辫;迟辞&苍产蝉辫;颁辞濒濒别驳别:&苍产蝉辫;贰苍谤颈肠丑颈苍驳&苍产蝉辫;迟丑别&苍产蝉辫;厂迟耻诲别苍迟&苍产蝉辫;尝别补谤苍颈苍驳&苍产蝉辫;贰虫辫别谤颈别苍肠别,鈥
浪花直播 Campus, 5(4), 8-13.
Shapiro, N.,&苍产蝉辫;补苍诲&苍产蝉辫;尝别惫颈苍别,&苍产蝉辫;闯.&苍产蝉辫;(2001).&苍产蝉辫;鈥淗辞飞&苍产蝉辫;尝别补谤苍颈苍驳&苍产蝉辫;颁辞尘尘耻苍颈迟颈别蝉&苍产蝉辫;础蹿蹿别肠迟&苍产蝉辫;厂迟耻诲别苍迟蝉.&苍产蝉辫;Peer Review, 3 (1) 42-44.
Shapiro, N. and Levine, J. (2000) Curricular Learning Communities. In B. Jacoby (Ed.), New Directions for Higher Education, Involving Commuter Students in Learning, No. 109, San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 13-22.
Shapiro, N., and Levine, J. (1999). Introducing Learning Communities to Your Campus. 浪花直播 Campus, 4(5), 2- 10.
Shapiro, N. (1999). Creating a Seamless Educational System K-16鈥擳he Role of Higher Education in School Reform. Metropolitan Universities, 10 (2), 7-10.
Shapiro, N., and Haeger, J. (1999). 浪花直播鈥檚 K鈥16 Model. Metropolitan Universities, 10 (2), 25-32. Langenberg, D., Marx, G., and Shapiro, N. (1999). Coordinating Efforts for System-wide Change: K-16
Partnerships. High School Magazine, NASSP, 6(4), 8-13.
Shapiro, N. (1998). Learning Communities: Moving Beyond the Classroom Walls. Metropolitan University, 9 (1), 25-34.
Anson, C., Jolliffe, D., and Shapiro, N. (1995). Stories Teachers Tell. Writing Program Administrator, 18 (3), 34- 39.
Shapiro, N. (1994). Course Structures That Elicited Students鈥 Ethnographic Studies of Workplace Writing: The Teacher's Overview. 浪花直播 English Journal, 28, 1-3.
Shapiro, N. (1992). Rereading Multicultural Readers: What Definition of Multicultural Are We Buying? In Hilgers, T., Wunsch, M., & Chattergy, V. (Eds.). Academic Literacies in Multicultural Higher Education: Selected Essays, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 16-23.
Shapiro, N. (1991). Textbooks in Focus: Cross-Cultural Readers. College Composition and Communication, 42, 524-530.
Shapiro, N., and Grant-Davie, K. (1988). Responding to Student Writing: Choosing Our Reading Roles Carefully.
The Greater Washington Reading Council Journal, 13, 36-41.
Shapiro, N. (1986). Review of Research in Composition and Rhetoric: A Bibliographic Source Book. In M. G. Moran & R. F. Lunsford (Eds.), Literary Research Newsletter, Winter, 71-74.