Karen Stein

 

Karen Stein, Ph.D. (University of Delaware, 1984) has been a faculty member at the University of Delaware since 1978.  She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and served as the Principle Investigator for UD's partnership in the federally-funded National Center on Elder Abuse.  Dr. Stein has served as the Faculty Director of the Center for Educational Effectiveness since 2009 and the Faculty Director of the Office of Educational Assessment since 2005.  She spent five years as the Director of the Leadership Program in SUAPP and twelve years prior to that as the Chair of the Department of Textiles, Design and Consumer Economics (renamed the Department of Consumer Studies).  Dr. Stein was appointed a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar and participated in a session on "The Challenges of An Aging Society" held in Salzburg, Austria.