Associate Professor of Education
School of Education, Room 204
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0249
Phone: 303-492-8370
Fax: 303-492-7090
E-mail: welner@colorado.edu

Kevin Welner is associate professor of education in the educational foundations, policy and practice program area. He is director of the CU-Boulder Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC). His present research examines small school reforms, tuition tax credit voucher policies, and various issues concerning the intersection between education rights litigation and educational opportunity scholarship. His past research studied the change process associated with equity-minded reform efforts - reforms aimed at benefiting those who hold less powerful school and community positions (primarily low-income students of color). Welner has received AERA's Early Career Award (in 2006) and Palmer O. Johnson Award (best article in 2004), the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency, and the Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation. Dr. Welner regularly teaches courses in educational policy, program evaluation, school law, and social foundations of education. His publications include Legal rights, local wrongs: When community control collides with educational equity (2001, SUNY Press); Education Policy and Law: Current Issues (with Wendy Chi, 2008, Information Age Publishing); and NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling (2008, Rowman & Littlefield).

Education:
PhD Educational Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
JD University of California, Los Angeles, 1988
BA Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985