Sep. 10, 2012: For Education Policy Expert Plucker, UConn Move is Homecoming

For Jonathan Plucker, one of the nationally prominent scholars attracted to the University of Connecticut by an ambitious new faculty hiring plan, a move to Storrs is both a new beginning and a homecoming.

The Montville, Conn. native, who has become widely recognized both in and outside his field as an expert in evaluation and educational policy, earned both his bachelor’s degree in chemistry education and his MA in educational psychology at UConn. He joins the UConn faculty from Indiana University, where he was director of the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.