David W. Chapman Professor 330 Wulling Hall chapm026@umn.edu Phone: 612-626-8728 Fax: 612-624-3377 Mailing address: Dept. of Educational Policy and Administration 330 Wulling Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455-0221

During the last two decades I’ve worked in more than 45 developing countries, assisting national governments and international organizations in the areas of educational policy and planning, program design and evaluation. My work focuses on issues of education development for both K-12 and higher education. My intense interest in developmental issues probably began as an undergraduate during a study abroad program in Sierra Leone.

One of the aspects I most enjoy about my work is its interdisciplinary nature. Complex educational issues are interwoven with the larger social and economic issues facing a country – they don’t exist in the abstract. This is one of the reasons I enjoy working closely with multifaceted organizations such as the World Bank, UNICEF, the United States Agency for International Development, the Asian Development Bank. I also enjoy collaborating with colleagues from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and from other academic disciplines.

Much of my research has focused on the quality of teacher work life and teacher incentives. I have looked at this issue in Uganda, Laos, Ghana, Pakistan and China. Over the last five years I have served as team leader of an evaluation of the U.S. government’s African Education Initiative, and led an external evaluation of the UNICEF African Girls’ Education Initiative, participated in a World Bank study of secondary school teachers in sub-Saharan Africa, authored a World Bank study of teacher issues in the Middle East and North Africa and conducted a study of higher education funding priorities across Asia for the Asian Development Bank. I also served as a member of an international team assisting the Ministry of Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman to develop a 15-year strategic plan for higher education. I have continued to work in Oman as part of my Fulbright New Century Scholars Award. I’m often able to include advanced doctoral students on these international projects. Students in the comparative and international development in education (CIDE) sequence, for example, can sometimes go overseas as full team members, responsible for components of projects.

This is an interesting time to be in the field of international development, both because of the substantive issues in the forefront of development, and the world’s changing political climate. The problems we face today, such as technology haves and have-nots, are different than those we faced in the 1980s. I feel it’s important for the University of Minnesota, which already has a strong program in international education, to become an even bigger player in the international field.

Selected publications

Chapman, D. W. and Miske, S. (in press). Promoting Girls’ Education in Africa: Evidence from the field. In Maslak, M.A. (Ed.), The Agency and Structure of Women's Education, SUNY Press.

Chapman D.W. (in press). Options for improving the management of education systems, Williams, J.H & Cummings, W.K., Policymaking for Education Reform in Developing Countries: Volume II: Options and Strategies. Roman & Littlefield Press.

DeJaeghere, J.G., Chapman, D.W., and Mulkeen, A.(in press). Increasing the Supply of Secondary Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A stakeholder assessment of policy options. Journal of Educational Policy.

Chapman, D.W. and Dykstra, A. (2006). From Money to Action: Strategies in U.S. support to education in the developing world. Journal of International Cooperation in Education, Vol 9, No. 1, 27-43.

Nkansa, Grace A. and Chapman, D.W. (2006, in press). Sustaining community participation: What persists after the money ends? International Review of Education, Vol. 52, No. 6.

DeJaeghere, J.G., Chapman, D.W., and Mulkeen, A.(2006, in press). Increasing the Supply of Secondary Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A stakeholder assessment of policy options. Journal of Educational Policy.

Chapman, D.W., Weidman, J., Cohen, M. and Mercer, M. (2005). The search for quality: A five country study of national strategies to improve educational quality in Central Asia, International Journal of Educational Development, 25, 5, 514-530.

Chapman. D.W. and Mahlck L.O. (Eds). (2004). Adapting technology for school improvement: A global perspective. Paris: UNESCO, International Institute for Educational Planning.

Chapman, D.W. and Austin, A.E. (Eds.) (2002). Higher Education in the Developing World, Westport, Conn: Greenwood Publishers.

Chapman, D.W., Chen, X., & Postiglione, G. (2000). Is pre-service teacher training worth the money?: A study of teachers in ethnic minority regions of the People’s Republic of China. Comparative Educational Review, 36, (2), 283-308.

Chapman D.W., (2000). Trends in Educational Administration in Developing Asia. Educational Administration Quarterly, 36, 2, 283-308.

Work in progress

Chapman, D.W. and Quijada, J. J., What does a billion dollars buy?: An analysis of U.S assistance to basic education in the developing world, 1990-2005. (submitted for publication).

Chapman, D.W. and Miric, S. L., Education Quality in the Middle East. (submitted for publication)

Chapman, D.W. and Mushlin, S., Do Girls’ Scholarship Programs Work?: Evidence from Two Countries. (Submitted for publication)

Academic degrees

• Ph.D., 1975, Syracuse University, higher education administration, program evaluation
• M.A., 1970, Colgate University, education
• B.A., 1969, Kalamazoo College, psychology/biology/philosophy

Current teaching

• EDPA 5104—Effective Strategies in International Development
• EDPA 5121—Contexts of International Education Reform

Current research and program interests

• Education planning in developing countries
• Government initiatives to influence practice at the school and classroom levels, with particular attention to developing countries
• Role of information (and information systems) in policy formulation and education planning
• Policy research
• Program evaluation

David W. Chapman's curriculum vitae

September 2007