Maria S. Cormier studies the content, organizational design, and pedagogy of workforce development programs at community colleges. She is the project director of the Virginia Workforce Recovery project, for which she leads the day-to-day operations and the implementation evaluation research. Cormier is also leading implementation research for a national evaluation of the Strengthening Community Colleges Round 4 Grants Program and conducting exploratory research on workforce training in Advanced Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Energy (AIREA) jobs. She previously led CCRC studies on how community colleges are adapting their workforce training to address technological changes in the workplace and aligning their credit and noncredit workforce programs and oversaw research exploring the role that community colleges play in training healthcare workers.
She has previously contributed to CCRC projects including Scaling Innovation in the Community College, Analysis of Statewide Developmental Education Reform, CUNY Start Evaluation, Scaling CUNY’s ASAP Program at Bronx Community College, and Postsecondary Language and Literacy Learning (PL3).
Cormier holds a MA and PhD in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.