Yongmei Ni Assistant Professor 587-9298 yongmei.ni@ed.utah.edu

Vita

Yongmei Ni is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah. She holds a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Michigan State University.  She also earned a Master's degree in Economics.  Her research interests focus on social inequity, economics of education, finance and governance, school effectiveness, school choice, and quantitative research methods.  Her current research project is about school choice, examining the effects of school choice policies on racial/ethnic segregation and social stratification, as well as their competitive impact on the effectiveness of traditional public schools.  She also works closely with the Utah Educational Policy Center.  She teaches a special topics course on school choice and privatization in education in the fall of 2007.

Representative Courses Taught

ELP 6960 - School Choice & Privatization in Education