Susan Fuhrman

Susan Harriet Fuhrman (born April 1944) is an American education policy scholar and served from 2006 as the first female president of Teachers College, Columbia University. Fuhrman earned her doctorate in Political Science and Education from Columbia University. She is an authority on school reform.

Fuhrman served as the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education for 11 years, where she is widely credited with elevating Penn GSE to enhanced national stature by "focusing on themes of urban and international education and broadening involvement with schools in underserved communities..." Prior to her service as dean at Pennsylvania, Fuhrman taught at Rutgers University and founded the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, the nation's first federally funded education policy center.

In 2007 Fuhrman was named one of New York's 100 most influential women by ''Crain's New York Business''. In 2009, she also became president of the National Academy of Education. Provided by Wikipedia