Kate Winter

Dr. Winter is an independent consultant on research design and evaluation and Associate Faculty in City University of Seattle's School of Management, where she teaches research design in the doctoral program in leadership. She also teaches core research courses in Creighton University's Interdisciplinary Doctorate of Education Program in Leadership; and has taught Research Design for the University of Washington's College of Education and Argosy University. She formerly served as Senior Research Scientist for EPI International, an international organization dedicated to the study of educational opportunity, where she provided leadership on several project evaluations and policy studies. Prior to EPI, she was associate project director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Projects on Faculty Career Flexibility at the American Council on Education. She is the recipient of the 2008 Society of Women Engineers Work Life Balance Award, which "celebrates an individual who has worked to create programs that help women engineers and other employees balance the commitments of career, life and family." Her research focuses broadly on leadership and policy in education. Dr. Winter has presented research findings and policy recommendations nationally and is published in the Journal about Diversity in Higher Education, the Journal of the Professoriate, the Journal about Women in Higher Education, the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, the Department Chair, Academe, and Change; and has authored or co-authored book chapters on teaching and learning and on efforts to support faculty. She has presented several times at NSF ADVANCE meetings. A nationally recognized expert in the field of work-life flexibility in higher education, she receives numerous invitations to participate in national meetings and to present at conferences. Dr. Winter received her Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Washington and her B.A. in English from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Evaluation Association (AEA), and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).