Through collaboration among the MSU’s College of Education’s Department of Educational Administration, the MSU’s Education Policy Innovation Center and partner MSU colleges, the Education Policy Speaker Series (EPSS) hosts and amplifies some of the leading voices in education research and policy to share their research and speak about the issues that are top-of-mind in education policy today.
For the 2023-24 academic year, the majority of seminars will take place from 10:30am – noon EST in Erickson Hall 133F.
2022-23 Education Policy Speaker Series
| Speaker | Location |
| Raquel Rall – University of California-Riverside | Friday, Sep. 15 at 10:30am Erickson 133F |
| Erica O. Turner – University of Wisconsin-Madison | Friday, Oct. 20 at 10:30am Erickson 252 |
| Kevin M. Stange – University of Michigan | Friday, Nov. 17 at 10:30am Erickson 133F |
| Melissa Arnold Lyon – University of Albany | Friday, Jan. 26 at 10:30am Erickson 133F |
| Michal Kurlaender – University of California-Davis | Friday, Feb. 16 at 10:30am Erickson 133F |
| Richard O. Welsh – Vanderbilt University | Friday, Mar. 22 at 10:30am Erickson 133F |
| NaLette M. Brodnax – Georgetown University | Friday, Apr. 19 at 10:30am Erickson 133F |
Past Speakers
2021-2022
- Dr. Sarah Cohodes – STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees
- Dr. Sally Nuamah – How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans
- Dr. Beth Schueler – Improving Low-Performing K-12 School Systems: Policies and Politics
- Dr. Ericka Weathers – Truancy and Truancy Policy in K-12 Education
- Dr. Katherine Michelmore – What’s the Power of Certainty? Experimental Evidence on the Effective Design of Free Tuition Policies
- Dr. Matthew Nelson – The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy
- Mrs. Paula Herbart – A Conversation with Paula Herbart, President, Michigan Education Association
2020-2021
- Dr. Constance A. Lindsay – A Scalable Empathic-Mindset Intervention Reduces Group Disparities in School Suspensions
- Dr. Christopher A. Neilson – Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice
- Dr. Michael Rice – Superintendent, Michigan Department of Education
- Dr. Sarah Winchell Lenhoff – Director, Detroit Education Research Project
- Dr. A. Brooks Bowden – Designing Impact Studies to Include Cost-Effectiveness Research
- Dr. Jonathan Collins – School Board Democracy During a Time of Crisis