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Dr. Doris J. Kurtz

Advisor

Doris Kurtz is the Superintendent of the Consolidated School District of New Britain Connecticut (10,800 students). She received her B.S. in Education from Eastern Illinois University in 1968, her M.S. in Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from Northern Illinois University in 1976 and her Ed.D. in Educational Administration from Northern Illinois University in 1996. She has been a Teacher, Guidance Counselor, Director of Testing and Principal in several inner city high schools in Lockport and North Chicago, Illinois. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, she was the Coordinator of Human Relations and Human Resources of the Kenosha (Wisconsin) Unified School District and also an Assistant and Interim High School Principal. She was the Assistant Superintendent of Instruction of the Kenosha Unified School District (20,000 students) and the Assistant Superintendent of Education in Bridgeport, Connecticut (23,000 students).

She chairs the Connecticut Association of Urban Superintendents (CAUS), and the of the Alliance for Equity and Excellence, is Vice President of the Urban Superintendents Association of America (USAA), a board member of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, Inc. (CAPSS), the Chairperson of the Public Engagement Committee of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of American Art. In May of 2006, Dr. Kurtz was given the Educational Leader of the Year Award by Southern Connecticut State University.