Bridget N. O'Connor

Bridget N. O'Connor

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Professor of Higher Education and Business Education

Phone: 998-5488
Email: bridget.oconnor@nyu.edu

• Administration Leadership and Technology
• Business Education
• Higher and Postsecondary Education
• Business Education

Bridget N. O'Connor, is Professor of Higher Education and Business Education.  She is particularly interested in adult learners and in the transfer of learning from the classroom to the workplace.  

Professor O'Connor has published dozens of articles in Journal of Education for Business, Informing Science, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, and NABTE Review. She has also authored or coauthored numerous yearbook chapters for the NBEA Yearbook. 

With colleagues from Australia and England, Professor O'Connor is an editor of the soon-to-be-released Sage Handbook of Workplace Learning.  She is also the co-author of several books, most recently Learning at Work:  How to Support Individual and Organizational Learning (HRD Press. 2007), Training for Organizations 2nd edition (Cincinnati: South-Western Educational Publishing Co., 2002), and End-user Information Systems: Implementing Individual and Work Group Technologies 2nd edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002). These books are supplemented with CD-ROM and Web-based instructor's manuals.

She has been a leader in a variety of professional associations, including the SIG Workplace Learning of AERA, which she chaired in 2000-2001; the American Society for Training and Development; and the Organizational Systems Research Association (OSRA). In addition to being its journal editor, she has been OSRA's president, chaired its two national curriculum projects, and served as vice president for publications.

At New York University, she was elected by The Steinhardt School of Education faculty to serve as a member of the NYU Faculty Senators Council (FSC). She was the 2003 chair of the FSC, Chair of the NYU Academics Affairs Committee, Chair of Administrative Issues Committee, and an active member of numerous other committees. She currently chairs the Steinhardt Committee on Courses and Programs and serves as Steinhardt's representative to the University Graduate Commission.

Professor O'Connor has received numerous awards for her teaching, service, and scholarship. In 2009, she was the Steinhardt School's nominee for the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award.   In January, 2006, she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Victoria Universityi in Melbourne, Australia.  Additionally, she was awarded the prestigious John Robert Gregg Award  for her lifetime contributions to Business Education, the Elvin S. Eyster Award for Excellence in Business Education from Indiana University, the Professor of the Year Award from NYU's School of Education, and the Educator of the Year Award from both the Eastern Business Educational Association and the Business Education Association of Metropolitan New York.

She is the intake advisor and advisor for all students in the Business Education MA Program (BEHE), tPost-Baccalaureate Advanced Certificate in Workplace Learning (BEWL), and the Advanced Certificate in Business Education. She welcomes your inquiries!