Jennifer King Rice

JENNIFER KING RICE

Jennifer Rice King is senior vice president and provost in the Office of the President at the University of Maryland. She was previously dean of the College of Education, where she focused her efforts to align educational resources with initiatives to advance excellence, equity and social justice in preschool through graduate school. Rice has served on the faculty and in college leadership roles at UMD for more than 25 years, and has been recognized as a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. She was formerly a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Her research draws on the discipline of economics to study policy questions concerning excellence and equity in K–12 education systems. An expert on school finance and teacher policy, she regularly advises state and federal agencies. A prolific scholar, she has served on the editorial boards of American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and Education Finance and Policy. In addition to positions as a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellow and a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute, she is a past president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. Rice earned her PhD and MS in educational administration and social foundations from Cornell University.

updated 2025