Lora Cohen-Vogel

Lora Cohen-Vogel is the Frank A. Daniels Jr. Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Education in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, where she studies programs and practices that are successful in raising schooling outcomes for traditionally underserved students in the U.S. She also directs the doctorate program in Policy, Leadership and School Improvement while overseeing the Interprofessional Graduate Certificate in Improvement Science and Implementation on behalf of the UNC School of Education. With local education agencies and the UNC School of Government's ncIMPACT initiative, her work seeks to develop an improvement-focused infrastructure and education collaboratives across North Carolina. She was previously an associate professor at Florida State University; served as vice president of the American Educational Research Association; and as associate director of the National Center for Scaling Up Effective Schools at Vanderbilt University. She presently sits as an appointed member on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's committee on the Future of Education Research. Cohen-Vogel received her PhD in leadership, policy, and organizations from Vanderbilt University.

updated 2024