Member Bio for Directory
Diane Hirshberg is Professor of Education Policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), and serves as Advisor to the UAA Chancellor on Arctic Research and Education. Her research interests include education policy analysis, indigenous education, circumpolar education issues, and the role of education in sustainable development. She has studied the boarding school experiences of Alaska Native students, teacher supply, demand and turnover, including the cost of teacher turnover in Alaska, co-authored the Education chapter for the Arctic Human Development Report II and is the North America lead for the Arctic Youth-Sustainable Futures project, funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. She has served as evaluator or co-evaluator for a number of federally funded education reform initiatives in Alaska and beyond, including the Alaska Pacific University Educational Innovations Comprehensive School Instruction Project for Paraprofessionals and Teachers, the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska Alaskan Inuit Education Improvement Strategy planning grant, the “Reimagining Teacher Preparation and Development in Alaska Planning Project” at the Anchorage Museum and the North Slope Borough School District Curriculum Alignment, Integration and Mapping project.
Dr. Hirshberg teaches in the Master of Public Administration Program in the UAA College of Business and Public Policy. She has a PhD in Education from UCLA, a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and bachelor’s degrees from UC Berkeley.
