Suárez-Orozco, Expert on Immigration and Education, Joins NYU as First Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Education and Globalization.
The Steinhardt School of Education has unveiled a major new initiative to support basic research, teaching, and policy work on the impact of globalization and large-scale immigration on pre-collegiate education. As part of that initiative, the School has appointed to its faculty Professor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a world-renowned scholar on the impact of immigration and globalization on education.
Suárez-Orozco, formerly a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, will be the first Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Education and Globalization and will also hold the distinguished title of University Professor. He will work with scholars throughout the NYU community to promote interdisciplinary study of immigration, globalization, and education. In addition, the Steinhardt School has also appointed cultural psychologist Carola Suárez-Orozco, the co-director of the Harvard Immigration Projects, to its departments of Teaching and Learning and Applied Psychology.
The Steinhardt School will be working with the Ross School in Long Island to disseminate innovative educational models and designs to urban schools. In addition, NYU will work with schools in New York City and throughout the world to establish an NYU-Ross international research consortium to link universities with local urban schools undergoing profound changes brought about by globalization.
“The forces of globalization are transforming our world. NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education is taking a leadership role in examining how our primary and secondary schools must adapt to that change to prepare today’s children to become active global citizens,” said Steinhardt Dean Mary Brabeck. “We are extremely pleased to have attracted two world-class scholars of great eminence to lead this new effort, which we hope will serve as a catalyst for innovation in schools, not only within New York City, but globally.”
The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Education and Globalization was created through a gift from Nicole S. Ross in honor of the work of her mother, Courtney Sale Ross, in founding the Ross School. The Ross School, located on Long Island, was founded in 1991 by Courtney and Steven J. Ross to serve as a model for transforming education to prepare students for citizenship and leadership in a global community.
In the New York City public schools, students speak 140 different languages and 50 percent come from immigrant-headed households, highlighting the dramatic impact that globalization and immigration are having on pre-collegiate education.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco has authored numerous scholarly essays, books and edited volumes, including Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (University of California, 2004), co-edited with Desirée B. Qin-Hilliard. At Harvard, Suárez-Orozco co-directed the largest study ever funded by the National Science Foundation’s cultural anthropology division—a comparative, interdisciplinary, and longitudinal study of immigrant children in American society. Best known as the LISA (Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation) study, the project is examining adaptations of Central American, Chinese, Dominican, Haitian, and Mexican immigrant adolescents to American schools and society.
Carola Suárez-Orozco is managing director of LISA. She is currently writing a manuscript on its major findings, which will be published by Harvard University Press.
Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have co-authored Children of Immigration (Harvard University, 2001) and Transformations: Migration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents (Stanford University, 1995), which won the Best Book Award from the Society on Research in Adolescence. They are also co-editors of the six volume series entitled Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The New Immigration (Desirée Qin-Hillard/Routledge, 2001).