Dr. Karen Granger

Karen Granger

Dr. Karen Granger

Associate Professor, Regional Director of NC New Teacher Support, AIG Coordinator

School of Education, 315

910.521.6448

About

Dr. Karen Granger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Specialties. She in the has worked in education for over 25 years in K12 and higher education in North Carolina and Georgia. Since joining the faculty at UNC Pembroke in 2004 she has proudly served as the Director of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, Program Coordinator for the AIG Add on Licensure Program and Regional Director of the North Carolina New Teacher Support Program. Before coming to UNC Pembroke, she was an elementary and middle grades art teacher. She also worked as a museum educator at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art and Georgia Museum of Art.

Dr. Granger earned a bachelor’s degree in from Converse College and a master’s degree from the University of Georgia. She completed her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her primary research interests include beginning teacher induction and alternative pathways to teacher education. She is passionate about recruitment, teacher preparation and retention in the region and has contributed at the state and national levels in these areas of research.

Dr. Granger serves on the Faculty Senate and is active in several university wide committees as well as the Council for Educator Preparation Programs (CEPP). She is currently the co-chair for the Conceptual Framework Taskforce for the North Carolina New Teacher Support Program. She has taught a variety of courses in the professional core, Elementary Education and AIG Programs.

Dr. Granger lives in Lumberton with her husband, two children and dog named Bama.