Mimi Engel

Mimi Engel is an associate professor in the School of Education and chair of the Research & Evaluation Methodology (REM) program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Engel is also a faculty fellow at the Renée Crown Wellness Institute. She was previously an assistant professor of public policy and education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University and a postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Through her research, Dr. Engel aims to contribute to our understanding of how policies and programs affect children’s developmental outcomes and opportunities to learn. Her interest in studying how schools and other contexts influence students is informed by her training in human development and social policy and social work. The central aim of her research is to provide new information about policies, programs, and administrative factors that have the potential to improve students’ school-related outcomes, particularly among students from traditionally under-served populations. She has published widely in journals including Educational Researcher, American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the Journal of Education Finance and Policy, Developmental Psychology, and Educational Administration Quarterly. Dr. Engel holds a PhD in human development and social policy from Northwestern University, an AM in social service administration from the University of Chicago, and a BA im history from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

updated 2024