Our Staff

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Catherine H. Augustine

Catherine H. Augustine (Ph.D., Education) is a Behavioral Scientist at RAND specializing in K-12 education, postsecondary education, and the organizational behavior of institutions and systems. Current research includes assessing how multiple organizations collaborate to provide arts education to K-12 students and investigating governance options for K-12 urban school districts. Dr. Augustine does implementation work as well as research. She was one of the leaders of a project to implement a new education system in Qatar. This work included both reforming the K-12 system and establishing a new postsecondary education coordinating body. Recent past work includes a consideration of the future of private liberal arts colleges in the U.S., assessing the state of middle schools in the country, and helping the Department of Defense to improve their system of postsecondary education. Dr. Augustine received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

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