Thirteen UCLA faculty members were honored on Education Week’s annual list “Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings,” placing UCLA third among all institutions. Twelve of the 13 are from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

The honorees are:

  • Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  • Carola Suárez-Orozco, co-director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization & Education
  • Pedro Noguera, director of the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools
  • Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA
  • Jeannie Oakes, Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity
  • Tyrone Howard, director of the Black Male Institute at UCLA
  • Louis Gomez, professor of education
  • Patricia Gándara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project
  • Samy Alim, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences
  • Sylvia Hurtado, professor of education
  • Eva Baker, director of the Center for the Study of Evaluation
  • Megan Franke, professor of education
  • Mike Rose, research professor of education

“GSE&IS scholars are at the cutting edge of basic research moving the needle in some of the most important information and education issues of our day,” Suárez-Orozco said.