Rick Ginsberg, Ph.D.

Center for Reimagining Education Co-Founder Rick Ginsberg, Ph.D. has served as Dean of the School of Education at the University of Kansas since August, 2005.  He previously was Director of the School of Education at Colorado State University from 1995-2005.   He currently serves as a co-chair of the Learn Coalition which promotes increased research funding for education, and co-chair of the Global Education Deans Forum, a group of Education Deans from research universities across the world who meet to learn, advocate, and work to transform education.  He previously was on and served as chair of the Kansas Professional Standards Board, served on the Kansas Continuing Legal Education Commission, the Board of Directors and former chair of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), and on the Board of Directors of the Council for Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).  He chaired the 2022-2023 KS Board of Regents Educator Work Force Task Force.  In 2019 he co-chaired the Kansas Department of Education Blue Ribbon Task Force on Bullying.  His research focuses on individual/organizational success and educational politics/reform.  His most recent book, “Duck and Cover: Confronting and correcting dubious practices in education,” (Teachers College Press, 2023), examines education policies that persist and need to change, calling for reimagining education.  Dr. Ginsberg was the 2019 co-recipient of Jerome Neuner Award for Excellence in Publication from the American Association of University Administrators.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Administrative, Institutional, and Policy Studies in Education.