Eileen Strempel
Dr. Eileen Strempel currently serves as the Inaugural Dean of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music and is also a Professor in UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies. Strempel is recognized as one of “The Top Ten Deans in U.S. Colleges and Universities,” and has served as PI or co-PI on ~$11M in extramural funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the NY State Education Department and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. A Presidential Scholar, Strempel is a nationally recognized transfer champion and views access to superb public education as one of the principal social justice issues of our time. Her most recent book with co-author Stephen J. Handel is entitled: Beyond Free College: Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students. Strempel received her Bachelor of Music from Eastman School of Music and her doctorate from Indiana University.
Current Titles and Positions
- Inaugural Dean, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- Professor of Music
- Professor of Education
Education
- Doctor of Music: Indiana University, 1998
- Master of Music: Indiana University, 1991
- Bachelor of Music: Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, 1988
Awards, Honors, Fellowships
- Presidential Scholar in the Arts
Select Publications
- Beyond Free College: Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students. First-author with Stephen Handel. Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2021
- Transition and Transformation: New Research Fostering Transfer Student Success. Co-editor with Stephen Handel. University Press of North Georgia, 2018
- Transition and Transformation: Fostering Transfer Student Success. Co-editor with Stephen Handel. University Press of North Georgia, 2016
- “A Second Swing for the Fences: Higher Education Investment in the Time of COVID-19.” College and University, co-author with Stephen Handel, Vol. 96, Issue 1, (Winter 2021): p. 41-46, 48
