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Constance N. Nichols, Ed.D.

Department Chair
Grove City College

Constance Nichols serves as a professor and the chair of the Grove City College Education Department, where the department proudly prepares over 270 future teachers at the undergraduate level. Her passion lies in breaking down barriers to educational access and driving educational quality for all learners. She has a strong community, regional, and state outreach in her work in education, all driving towards the goals of high educational quality and greater educational opportunity. Her role at the college is very outward-facing, working with many school and community partnerships while also focusing on continuous improvement and creative processes for the departmental identity and service.

In addition to her work at the college, she is an active member of several boards and efforts related to education and community engagement. This work includes several community efforts such as the United Way, the Common Good Project at Grove City College, the Synergy Community Foundation, and the Hope Center for Arts and Technology (a unique tuition-free youth arts and adult vocational school). She also serves as an elected school director for the Grove City Area School District, which has partnered with a national coalition of school systems through the National Center for Education and the Economy to drive equity, efficiency, and excellence in the school system and community.

In the area of educational policy, she has played an active role in shaping educational policy related to higher education and seeking to shape regulatory practices that impact the teaching profession. She served as the sole higher education faculty member on a Governor's Commission for the state of Pennsylvania regarding access and affordability in higher education. She is a leading member of the Pennsylvania Deans Forum, a coalition of higher education deans and department chairs that collaborates with the PA Department of Education on issues related to higher education and teacher preparation. She was part of the Pennsylvania Teacher Workforce Strategy aimed at improving the teacher pipeline and was a co-author of the regulatory framework for the state's Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education program framework guidelines required of all teachers.

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