Dr. Pedro Noguera, one of the nation’s most prominent professors of urban education, is heading to UCLA after spending 12 years at NYU.
Noguera, who has been the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education and has served as the executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS) at NYU, said that his decision to relocate was largely for personal reasons.
Dr. Pedro Noguera has authored more than a dozen books, including The Trouble With Black Boys: …And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education.
“I wanted the ability to be in a place where I can work closely with other scholars who have a similar vision, scholarship and research,” said Noguera, who has authored more than a dozen books, including The Trouble With Black Boys: …And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education.
An expert on race and education, NYU’s president Dr. John Sexton successfully lured Noguera from Harvard in 2003. Sexton has since announced that he will retire from the university next year.
“He [Sexton] was the main reason why I came to NYU,” said Noguera in an interview with Diverse. “We developed a close relationship.”
The decision to leave Harvard in 2003 was a major blow for the graduate students who had ventured to Cambridge to study with the enterprising scholar. But in the year after he relocated to NYU, Noguera met informally each month with a handful of Harvard students who made the trek to New York City where they would talk about pedagogy over meals.
