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Dr. Lauren J. Way oversees the Direct Entry track of the Doctor of Educational Leadership program and is a Full Professor in the School of Education, Psychology, and Humanities. She currently serves as Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), overseeing the review of all student and faculty proposals to conduct original research with human participants. She is also the Project Manager for the Commonwealth Corporation’s Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund grant program at 猫咪社区 – The Pathways Project.

An accomplished leader in higher education, Dr. Way has served as the university’s founding Director of Cooperative Education, Director of Entrepreneurial Programs, Chair of the Business Department overseeing graduate and undergraduate business programs, board member on the university’s IRB, and, for more than a decade, directed the Master of Science in Higher Education Administration Program. She has overseen both graduate and undergraduate departmental curricula, faculty, student advising, and assessment.

Dr. Way’s teaching has included courses on curriculum design, organizational governance, educational management, the history and economics of higher education, and applied research. She has also designed and taught numerous courses in entrepreneurship and business. Dr. Way has chaired over 200 Master’s level original research theses with her students and has begun chairing doctoral student dissertations.

At Smith College, Dr. Way served in the Office for International Study, preparing students for international internships, Fulbright awards, and fellowships. She later served as Associate Director of the Lemelson Assistive Technology Development Center at Hampshire College, where she was a co-PI on successive grants. Dr. Way has founded and led national advisory boards for educational programs, directed annual conferences in assistive technology design, business, and education, and designed and taught summer programs for high school students focused on entrepreneurship. For ten years, she served as an advisor for the Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative, working with 13 regional colleges and universities to expand educational programs supporting entrepreneurship.  Dr. Way has presented and guest lectured both nationally and internationally. She was awarded a grant from the Whiting Foundation to travel to Southeast Asia to study the transformation of the Malaysian higher education system as part of the country’s move toward a knowledge-based economy. She has received a national teaching award in experiential education and collaborated with multidisciplinary educators from Cambridge, England, to win the USASBE Conference Award for Innovative Academic Collaboration Practices.

Dr. Way holds a BA from Smith College, an MEd with a focus on educational policy, research, and administration, and an EdD in educational leadership from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.