Karen Rogers, EdD

Dr. Karen Rogers is visiting professor of Education at Trinity College. She earned her BA at Wheaton College, her MA at University of Illinois, and her EdS and EdD at Northern Illinois University.

Dr. Rogers joins the staff at Trinity after more than thirty years of experience serving as an English/communications teacher and later as division head of English/Fine Arts, associate principal, and principal in Township High School District 214. During this time she acted as coordinator for the Cooperative Teacher Education Program, a student teaching partnership with the University of Illinois. Her dissertation explored the dynamics of reciprocal empowerment as applied to administrators and teachers in the high school setting. Areas of primary academic and research interest include organizational structure, leadership, and school improvement.