Connecting Teachers to Higher Education Faculty : Siva Kumari

Session: Connecting Teachers to Higher Education Faculty

Siva Kumari serves two roles in Rice University as Associate Dean in the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies and as Advisor to the Provost on K-12 initiatives. At the school, she oversees teacher professional development and information technology programs and has received funding for several programs in the K-12 area. Under her leadership, the AP Summer Institute at Rice grew to become the largest in the nation. Ms Kumari also started the IB professional development for teachers, making Rice the only organization in the country with both AP and IB programs. With a National Science Foundation grant, she created the AP Digital Library, with over 10,000 national and international users.