Dr. Meghan Snow is the Chief Research and Innovation Officer at ACUE. In this role she is responsible for setting and executing against a strategic research agenda and supporting a culture of data-driven decision making across the organization, with the goal of delivering on the mission to ensure student success and equity through quality instruction.
At ACUE, Snow led the development of the organization’s approach to evaluating the impact of ACUE’s courses on faculty and students at partner institutions. To date, ACUE has published over a dozen evaluations demonstrating, in part, improved student performance and improved faculty self-efficacy. Snow has presented papers and sessions about this work at conferences, including the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the American Educational Research Association, the American Evaluation Association, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network, and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
She began her career in education as a classroom teacher through the Teach for America program and has since worked in various leadership and policy positions across education. Prior to joining ACUE, she was the Director of STEM at the New Jersey Department of Education.
Snow holds an EdD in Leadership and Organizational Learning from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, an EdM in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an MEd in Educational Leadership from Sam Houston State University. She graduated cum laude from Villanova University with a BS in Biology and Honors, a BA in Philosophy, and a certificate in Ethics.
