Harris

Nina Harris serves as the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. A skilled administrator with over 38 years of higher education experience, specializing in developing and administering successful undergraduate, graduate and leadership development programs at major universities, Harris provides direction to all current and developing academic initiatives in the School.

Dr. Harris teaches Leadership and Social Identity and Pluralism courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. A passionate educator who focuses on self-awareness, social and emotional intelligence, personal development, and ethics as tools to develop leaders for a pluralistic society, she joined the University of Maryland community in 1999. Prior to coming to Maryland, she spent 12 years at the University of Delaware.