Skip to main content
Lisa Metzger-Mugg

Lisa Metzger-Mugg

  • Vice President of Program and Operations, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award
  • Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy

Contact

l-metzger-mugg@northwestern.edu

Academic Area

Higher Education Administration and Policy

Research Interests

Institutional support for improved educational, career, and social emotional outcomes for marginalized, underserved students; college access and affordability; institutional effectiveness; program assessment and evaluation; process improvement; social impact; outside the classroom learning outcomes; data equity methods.

Biography

Dr. Lisa Metzger-Mugg is the Vice President of Program and Operations at The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, a global youth development organization active in over 130 countries, where she serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the national office in the United States. Previously, Lisa served as Chief of Staff for the Executive Vice President at Northwestern University. She also led the Institutional Research Office in Administration and Planning, The Graduate School, and at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Prior to Northwestern, she led the Research and Evaluation office at the City Colleges of Chicago and conducted clinical research at Johns Hopkins University. She also held research positions at the American Institutes for Research, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research areas focus on improving institutional support and programming to advance the educational equity agenda in removing barriers to success for underserved youth.

Education

  • PhD, Educational Psychology, Loyola University Chicago
  • MS, Developmental Psychology, Johns Hopkins University
  • BS, Psychology, Philosophy, and Humanities, Valparaiso University
  •