Kathryn Newcomer, Ph.D.

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Kathryn Newcomer is the Director of the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University where she teaches public and nonprofit, program evaluation, research design, and applied statistics. She conducts research and training for federal and local government agencies on performance measurement and program evaluation.
Dr. Newcomer has published  five books, Improving Government Performance  (1989), The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (1994, 2004), and Using Performance Measurement to Improve Public and Nonprofit Programs (1997), Meeting the Challenges of Performance-Oriented Government (2002) and Getting Results: A Guide for Federal Leaders and Managers (2005), and numerous articles in journals including the Public Administration Review.  She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and currently serves on the Comptroller General’s Educators’ Advisory Panel. She is currently Vice President of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), and will assume the position of president of NASPAA for 2006-2007.  She has received two Fulbright awards, one for Taiwan (1993) and one for Egypt (2001-04).
Dr. Newcomer earned a B.S. in education and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Kansas, and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa.    

WLI is an interactive partnership with the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the School of Business, and the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the George Washington University.