Eileen M. McGowan

Lecturer on Education
Director of the Field Experience Program

Profile

Eileen McGowan studies the development of formal mentoring relationships within educational settings. At HGSE, she is the Program Director of the Field Experience Program and a Lecturer on Education. As a faculty member associated with the Urban Superintendent's program, she runs mentoring seminars and supports their distance research groups. Prior to her current appointment at Harvard, Eileen was a principal of Mentoring Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in the creation of more effective mentoring programs in urban school systems, higher-education programs, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Some of her clients have included the Boston Public Schools, New Leaders for New Schools, and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. Eileen has served as Director of Evaluation at the national nonprofit Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)and was a teacher in public education for 14 years. Her most recent publications can be found in the Handbook of Mentoring (Sage, 2007).

Degrees

• Ed.D., Harvard University