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Dr. Gary T. Henry
Gary T. Henry holds the Duncan and Rebecca Kyle, MacRae Professorship of Public Policy in the Department of Public Policy and directs the Carolina Institute for Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also, he holds the appointment as Senior Statistician in Frank Porter Graham Institute for Child Development at UNC-Chapel Hill. Formerly, he held the William Neil Reynolds Distinguished University Visiting Professorship at UNC. He has served as a professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Political Science, and Department of Education Policy Studies at Georgia State University and the Department of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. He previously served as the Director of Evaluation and Learning Services for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Henry has evaluated a variety of policies and programs, including North Carolina's Disadvantaged Student Supplemental Fund, Georgia's Universal Pre-K, public information campaigns, and the HOPE Scholarship as well as school reforms and accountability systems. The author of Practical Sampling (Sage 1990), Graphing Data (Sage 1995) and co-author of Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs (Jossey-Bass 2000), Henry has published extensively in the fields of evaluation and education policy. He received the Outstanding Evaluation of the Year Award from the American Evaluation Association in 1998 for his work with Georgia's Council for School Performance and the Joseph S. Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2001 from the American Society for Public Administration and the Center for Accountability and Performance along with Steve Harkreader. Dr. Henry currently serves on the Standing Committee for Systemic Reform, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Recently, he completed service on a National Research Council/National Academies of Sciences committee assessing the effects of "green schools" on the health and productivity of teachers and students and co-authored the committee report.
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