Richard Richardson

Richard Richardson

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

Professor Emeritus of Higher Education

Phone: 998 5640
Email: richard.richardson@nyu.edu

• Administration Leadership and Technology
• Higher and Postsecondary Education

Richard C. Richardson Jr. is professor emeritus of higher education at NYU and past chair of the Department of Administration, Leadership and Technology. His recent studies have examined policy and higher education performance, structural designs, and systemic change for state higher education systems. He recently completed a Ford Foundation funded research project that was designed to improve understanding of the linkages between federal and state policies and college and university performance  in the US, Mexico and Canada. The project also served as a vehicle for training younger policy scholars. (http://www.nyu.edu/iesp/aiheps/).

Richardson is the author or co-author of seven books, including: Designing State Higher Education Systems for a New Century (1999), Achieving Quality and Diversity: Universities in a Multicultural Society (1991), Fostering Minority Access and Achievement in Higher Education (1987), Literacy in the Open Access College (1983), Governance for the Two-Year College (1973) and The Two-Year College: A Social Synthesis (1965). A book reporting outcomes from his recently completed research project, Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases across State Systems, (http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9518.html) was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in Spring 2009. Richardson received his BS from Castleton State College (Vermont), his MA from Michigan State University, and the Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, Richardson was named a Distinguished Graduate of the College of Education at UT. He also holds an honorary doctor of letters degree from Lafayette College.