Strategic planning
The provost is overseeing the University’s new strategic planning efforts, guiding the future of the University
David Figlio is the University of Rochester’s provost and chief academic officer
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David Figlio conducts research on a wide range of education and health policy issues from school accountability and standards to welfare policy and policy design, as well as the interrelationship between education and health. He also studies aspects of the academic profession itself, with recent papers on academic peer review and the publication process. He collaborates frequently with state and local health and education agencies, and recently led a National Science Foundation-sponsored national network to facilitate the use of matched administrative datasets to inform and evaluate education policy. He was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2017.
Figlio has published his work in numerous leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA Pediatrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Journal of Human Resources. Organizations supporting his research include the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Education, and Health and Human Services, as well as the Annie E. Casey, Doris Duke Charitable Trust, Gates, Laura and John Arnold, MacArthur, Smith Richardson, and Spencer foundations, among others.
Figlio is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; a research fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany; a member of the CESifo Network on the Economics of Education in Munich, Germany; and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He served as the inaugural editor of the Association for Education Finance and Policy’s journal, Education Finance and Policy (MIT Press), and recently completed ten years as Coeditor and then Editor (from 2015-2021) of the Journal of Human Resources. He has been part of numerous national education task forces and panels, such as the Institute of Medicine’s panel on the Science of Child Development from Birth through Age Eight, and advised several U.S. states and foreign nations on the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational policies.
Figlio joined Rochester on July 1, 2022 from Northwestern University, where he served as Orrington Lunt Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy, and was previously the Director of Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. Prior to that he taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Florida, where he was the Knight-Ridder Professor of Economics. He earned his PhD in 1995 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
David Figlio
2022–2024
Sarah Peyre
2021–2022
Robert Clark
2016–2021
Peter Lennie
2012–2016
Ralph Kuncl
2007–2012
Charles E. Phelps
1994–2007
Brian J. Thompson
1984–1994
Richard D. O’Brien
1978–1984
Robert L. Sproull
1968–1970
McCrea Hazlett
1961–1968
Howard R. Anderson
1960–1961
Donald Gilbert
1948–1951
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