Steve came to the GSE as Dean in 2015 from Cornell University where he was Professor of Human Development and served terms as department chair and associate provost. His research is on youth development and education with an emphasis on the transition to adulthood, work-based learning, service-learning, and mentoring. As a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Germany he did research leading to the book, Apprenticeship for Adulthood: Preparing Youth for the Future (Free Press, 1990). This book and a demonstration project adapting German-style apprenticeship to the United States helped to inform the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. With Mary Agnes Hamilton he co-edited The Youth Development Handbook and conducted action research with youth-serving organizations in Latin America. He was a social studies and English teacher at Phelps Vocational High School in Washington, DC. His degrees are from Swarthmore College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.