Candace de Russy

Candace de Russy is an Adjunct Fellow of Hudson Institute. A former college professor, she is a nationally recognized writer and lecturer on education and cultural issues. In 2004 she joined Hudson Institute where her research on education policy and reform includes:

• Academic standards in general education and in academic specializations;
• Assessment of learning in public education systems: comparability and accountability;
• The financing of higher education, including the need for greater cost-effectiveness, public accountability and transparency;
• State- /system-wide strategic planning as well as master plan reporting and accountability;
• Governance and accountability issues in higher education;
• School choice and curriculum in K-12 education;
• The role of on-line learning in education

Since 1995, de Russy has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest public higher education system, where she served for several years on the Board’s Executive Committee, chaired its Academic Standards Committee, and is a member of its Ad Hoc Committee on Charter Schools. Before her appointment to SUNY’s Board, she also served as a Trustee at Westchester Community College in New York State. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed her to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

de Russy is a member of the Trustees Council of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars. She serves on the advisory boards of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the Independent Women's Forum, the International Institute of Classical Humanities, and the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. From 2000 to 2002 she served on the advisory board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. She is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics and several other professional societies.

de Russy previously served as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and was Executive Officer of the American Foundation for Resistance International, an organization that concentrated on reporting and opposing human rights abuses in totalitarian states.

Visit her website at www.candacederussy.com.

Throughout a career that has had at its center a deep commitment to the improvement of elementary, secondary and higher education, de Russy has led efforts to raise academic standards, strengthen general education, promote school choice, and bring accountability and efficiency to the academy.

A contributing editor at Crisis magazine, de Russy has published on education policy and education reform in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Post, The New York Sun, City Journal, Academic Questions, Heterodoxy, The Women’s Quarterly, and other publications. de Russy has presented work on a range of educational and cultural issues, taught a college seminar on “America and Historical Decline,” and has commented on education for radio station WAMC in Central New York State. She has also been a speaker on defense issues for the National Strategy Information Center.

de Russy is recognized as an outspoken proponent of academic standards and responsible public policy. She has been interviewed on “60 Minutes” and “The O’Reilly Factor,” and has appeared on C-SPAN. de Russy has been the subject of feature articles in The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Village Voice, and elsewhere; in the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine she was described as a “woman to watch out for.”