The University of Texas at Austin has established a Consortium for Research in Education with The University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of Texas-Pan American, and Texas State University-San Marcos. These four universities are engaged in research that utilizes the resources of the Texas ERC and they cooperate to share and coordinate usage of the data and the results of their study and analyses.
Pedro Reyes, Ph.D., is the Ashbel Smith Professor in Education Policy within the Department of Educational Administration at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. He is involved with the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin as both a Faculty Associate and Principal Investigator.
Dr. Reyes received his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been a member of the faculty at the University of Texas since January, 1991. He has twenty-five years of teaching experience in public schools and higher education and has won major awards for his graduate-level teaching. He is a past president of the University Council for Educational Administration and a Fellow of the National Academy of Education.
Dr. Reyes is the author of Resiliency and Success: Migrant Children in the US (2004), Lessons from High Poverty High Performance Schools: Creating Learning Communities (1999), and Teachers and Their Workplace: Commitment, Performance, and Productivity (1990). He has authored more than one hundred articles, book chapters, monographs, and a significant number of papers that have been presented at national and international academic conferences. His research has appeared in journals such as Educational Administration Quarterly, High School Journal, Journal of Educational Research, and Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. He has served as the Editor of the Book Review Section of Educational Researcher, an Associate Editor of International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and a reviewer for many other scholarly journals.
More than $22 million in research and development grants from The Spencer Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation, the Texas Education Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Houston Endowment, Inc., The Brown Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, and other funding sources have been awarded as a result of Dr. Reyes efforts. Dr. Reyes was the thirtieth president of the University Council for Educational Administration, a national consortium of seventy major research universities in the United States and Canada that is dedicated to expanding and advancing knowledge in educational administration. He has served on numerous national committees for quality review of university programs, including the Ohio Board of Regents Review for Education Programs. He also has advised the Ford Foundation on the program evaluation of its Urban Partnerships Program.
Celeste Alexander, Ph.D, is a Research Associate within the Department of Educational Administration at The University of Texas at Austin. Her work within the department encompasses both program evaluation and original research. Dr. Alexander received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994.
Through grants from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Alexander has served as an Evaluator on the UTeachEngineering: Training Secondary Teachers to Deliver Design-Based Engineering Instruction and Building Blocks for Science: What Young Children Should Know and Be Able to Do When They Enter Kindergarten projects. Within the University of Texas System, she has evaluated various technical assistance programs, including the Texas Governor's Education Excellence Award, Early College High School, and the Teacher Incentive Fund. Dr. Alexander's research projects include Student Critical Transitions and Success in Postsecondary Education.
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
College of Education and Human Development
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Professor and Principal Investigator
Educational Leadership
Director, Center for Applied Research in Education
The University of Texas-Pan American (Edinburgh)
Professor and Principal Investigator
Psychometrics & Statistics
College of Education
Texas State University-San Marcos