Rick Ginsberg, Ph.D., served as Dean of the School of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Kansas from August, 2005 to August, 2026. He is the co-founder of the Center for Reimagining Education, focusing on transforming teaching and learning in K-12 schools utilizing AI. He served as co-chair of the Learn Coalition promoting increased research funding for education, and co-chair of the Global Education Deans Forum, a group of Education Deans from research universities across the world who meet to learn, advocate, and work to transform education. He previously was on and served as chair of the Kansas Professional Standards Board, served on the Kansas Continuing Legal Education Commission, the Board of Directors and former chair of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), and on the Board of Directors of the Council for Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). He chaired the 2022-2023 KS Board of Regents Educator Work Force Task Force and a 2019 Kansas Department of Education Blue Ribbon Task Force on Bullying. He has been presenting widely onissues related to AI use in K-12 and higher education. His research focuses on individual/organizational success and educational reform, currently examining issues regarding AI use in education settings. His most recent book (with Yong Zhao), “Duck and Cover: Confronting and correcting dubious practices in education,” (Teachers College Press, 2023), examined education policies that persist and need to change. Recent publications focused on the need to reconsider conceptions of literacy in an AI world, approaches to reforming schools with AI. Dr. Ginsberg was the 2019 co-recipient of Jerome Neuner Award for Excellence in Publication from the American Association of University Administrators. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Administrative, Institutional, and Policy Studies in Education.