Dr. Rudy Crew
Dr. Rudolph (Rudy) Crew is the Interim Executive Director of the Greater Crenshaw Educational Partnership. In January 2009, Dr.Crew joined the USC Rossier School of Education in the position of professor of clinical education. He is charged with developing standards for new community partnerships and providing leadership for specific existing USC Rossier partnerships, including GCEP. Previously, he led the New York City Department of Education from 1995 to 1999 and Miami-Dade County Public Schools from 2004 to 2008.
A native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Dr. Crew holds a doctor of education degree in educational administration and a master of education degree in urban education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in management from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. Among Dr. Crew’s accomplishments, he authored Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools, a book which has fostered intense public discussion. Dr. Crew has received many honors, including the 2008 AASA National Superintendent of the Year; the Florida Association of Partners in Education Superintendent’s Award (2007); the Spirit of Excellence Award from Minority Development & Empowerment Inc. (2007); the Vann Miller Award for Outstanding Educational Administrator, presented by the Illinois Association of School Administrators (2003); the Living the Dream Award, presented by New York Gov. George Pataki (1997); and the Arthur Ashe Leadership Award (1996).
Dr. Crew, a member of the American Association of School Administrators, serves on several boards and task forces, including the Carnegie Foundation’s Commission on Mathematics and Science Education, the Al Shanker Institute, the National Superintendents Roundtable, the Public Education Network, the National Research Council’s Committee on Scientific Principles of Education Research and the Education Task Force. He is an associate in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he has been part of the Urban Superintendent Program since 1992.
