L-R: Anthony Abraham Jack, Joshua Goodman, and Nathan Jones

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BU Wheelock Faculty Promoted to Full Professor

Three BU Wheelock faculty members—Joshua Goodman, Anthony Abraham Jack, and Nathan Jones—were recently promoted from associate professor to full professor. They are recognized for their contributions to higher education leadership, educational policy studies, special education, and beyond.

Joshua Goodman, Educational Policy Studies

Joshua Goodman is a professor of education and economics, and director of the MA in Educational Policy Studies program at BU Wheelock. His work provides rigorous evidence on the impacts of education policies, particularly with respect to post-secondary issues, STEM coursework, the COVID-19 pandemic, and environmental issues. Much of his policy-related work is conducted as a faculty affiliate of the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC). Goodman spent the 2022–23 academic year on leave from BU Wheelock to serve as a senior economist on the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Anthony Abraham Jack, Higher Education Leadership

Anthony Abraham Jack is a professor of higher education leadership at BU Wheelock and the inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center, which serves first-generation undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at BU. His research helps colleges and universities better understand how to support first-generation students and create more equitable opportunities in higher education. Jack is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students and Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price.

Nathan Jones, Special Education

Nathan Jones is a professor in the Special Education program at BU Wheelock. He is also affiliated with the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC) and is a founding member of BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. Jones researches the intersection of education policy and classroom teaching, particularly in special education, with a focus on how schools can better hire and train teachers and how different teaching methods can improve learning for students with disabilities. Since 2023, Jones has been on leave from BU while he serves as Commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) in the US Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES).