Education Career Chats with Paco Martorell
Professor & Chair of the Graduate Group in Education, UC Davis School of Education
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 12–1 pm
School of Education Building, Room 174
UC Davis
No RSVP required but space is limited.
The Education Career Chats Series provides UC Davis doctoral students an opportunity to learn from individuals who earned doctoral degrees in education and landed jobs outside of academe. Speakers will also share information about potential internship and job opportunities within their workplaces and other organizations. Hosted by the School of Education and Graduate Group in Education.
About the Speaker
Dr. Francisco (Paco)
Martorell is a professor and chair of the Graduate
Group in Education at the UC Davis School of Education. He has
broad research interests in both higher education and K-12
policy. Current projects cover areas including developmental
education in colleges, the effects of grade retention, the
returns to for-profit colleges, the impacts of school facility
investments, and community college tuition subsidies. He also has
conducted research on health care including studies examining the
economic costs of dementia as well as research on the economic
and educational consequences of military service.
Dr. Martorell joined the UC Davis School of Education faculty as an assistant professor in 2014, and was previously an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He earned his PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, and his BA in economics and mathematics at Carleton College.
For questions or more information, please contact Dr. Faheemah Mustafaa.
