Carlton, Patrick

Dr. Patrick W. Carlton has been a professor of Educational Leadership since 2000 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Before coming to UNLV Dr. Carlton worked at Virginia Tech, the University of the Pacific, New York University, and at the U.S. Office of Education. Dr. Carlton earned his Masters in Education and Masters in History from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and he earned his Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Carlton specializes in higher education and public school infrastructure development and administrative applications implementation. Since 2000 Dr. Carlton worked on the "Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project", a nationwide effort to collect oral histories from public school principals. Under the Department of Educational Leadership at UNLV Dr. Carlton and graduate students worked to collect oral histories from principals in the state of Nevada. The original project was started in 1986 at Virginia Tech when Dr. Carlton was exposed to the oral history efforts at the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Dr. Carlton met with Dr. Roland Barth of Harvard University and both agreed that there was a need for in depth research into professional education, especially the position of school principals. Both Dr. Carlton and Dr. Barth recognized that principals do not often record their personal experiences and decided that an oral history project would be the best way to capture this information. The project was started in 1986 at Virginia Tech and continues as of 2017. Patrick Carlton, “Introduction to the Project,” The Oral History of the Public School Principalship, accessed May 15, 2017, http://web.unlv.edu/projects/ohpsp/introduction.html