04/08/2019 12:58:11 PMAs an English teacher at a high-poverty high school on Houston’s north side, Cathy Horn recalls seeing far too many of her students bypass college. Not because they weren’t smart enough, but because policies weren’t set up to help them, she said.
Horn since has become a policy wonk, serving as a professor of higher education at the University of Houston College of Education and researching critical topics such as college access and admissions and teacher and principal retention.
Now, Horn will delve deeper into issues in higher education leadership, selected to participate in a prestigious yearlong fellowship program through the American Council on Education. She will be paired with a mentor at another university, shadowing executives and gaining insights she can bring back to UH.