Nancy S. Shapiro is Associate Vice Chancellor for Education and Outreach and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for P-20 Initiatives at the University System of Maryland (USM). She leads System-wide partnerships with public schools in Maryland supporting college and career readiness; promoting teacher recruitment, retention, quality, quantity and diversity; and ensuring seamless transfer for students. As the principal investigator on major federal grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, she builds sustainable partnerships between colleges, universities and public schools and leads System-wide academic transformation projects to redesign undergraduate general education courses to support student success.
Dr. Shapiro has established and supports statewide STEM pathways and pipelines, including mathematics reform, computer science and computational thinking in higher education and K-12. She leads the USM Regents’ civic education and civic engagement strategic goals initiative, convening system-wide workshops and statewide conferences involving faculty and students, and providing support for campus-level planning.
Prior to coming to USM, Shapiro was the founding executive Director of the College Park Scholars Living Learning Program at the University of Maryland and Director of the University of Maryland Writing Program.
Author of numerous articles and books, Shapiro earned her Ph.D in Education from University of Maryland and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University. She holds the rank of Research Scholar in the College of Education at the University of Maryland.