Carol Ann Franklin has been a member of the university’s education faculty since 1976.

She has served the university in a variety of administrative roles, directing teacher education, liberal studies and educational leadership programs. Franklin also has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, as associate vice president of academic affairs, and as dean of planning and institutional research. She recently was director of programs in educational leadership and technology, and also has coordinated the teacher performance assessment program.

During her tenure, Franklin has worked to design and develop a number of education programs. She was particularly instrumental in advocating for and developing the university’s first-ever doctorate program, the Doctorate in Leadership for Educational Justice, which was launched in the summer of 2006.

Franklin is recognized as an academic researcher, with work in areas including assessment, teacher performance, teacher education, emergent leadership skills, curriculum development, organizational responses to racism, and the implementation of geographic information systems projects in K-12 classrooms. She has published both qualitative and quantitative research, and has guided many students through their own master’s thesis research. She earned her doctorate in science education and curriculum and instruction from Indiana University, completing dissertation research on how teachers acquire instructional skills.

Her leadership in the education community at large is widely known. She has served as a member of the Panel on Educational Leadership for the California Commission on Teacher Education and as a program evaluator for the credential program approval process. She has been on committees for doctoral candidates at Claremont Graduate School and is a mentor and friend to many educational leaders throughout the state, particularly in the Inland Empire.