Kathryn Mohrman

Kathryn Mohrman is the Director of the University Design Consortium and a faculty member in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University.  In addition, she is the U.S. director of the Center for American Culture at Sichuan University in China.  Her career includes university leadership, international collaborations, U.S. higher education associations, research on public policy issues, and teaching from sixth grade to graduate students.

Career highlights include President of Colorado College; Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland College Park; Associate Dean of the College, Brown University; Director of National Affairs at the Association of American Colleges; and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.

International activities include Executive Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Johns Hopkins University and Fulbright Scholarships in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Currently she serves as project director/principal investigator of a three-year grant for leadership and innovation in Vietnamese technical universities.  Her research and teaching interests include comparative public policy, leadership, world-class research universities, institutional effectiveness, curriculum design, and international exchanges.

Kathryn received her B.A. from Grinnell College, M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ph.D. from George Washington University. She holds honorary doctorates from Grinnell College and Colorado College.