about loren r grossman

           Independent College Counselor / Educational Advocate /

Career Technical Education (CTE) Transition Planner / Educational Consultant

• Member, Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA; 2017 – present)
• Member, National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC; 2010 – present) 
• Member, Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC; 2010 – present)
• Attorney (Tennessee; inactive status, good standing; 1983 – present)
• Member, Southern California Special Education Task Force (2000 – present)
• Member, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) parent committees (1994 – 2009)
• Consulting Research Analyst, University of Southern California (USC) External Relations, multi-year funding proposal to WK Kellogg Foundation re USC community outreach  for Community Education Academy (2005)
• Founding Parent, New West Charter; co-creator of initial gifted / special education curriculum (1999 – 2003)
• Co-creator, LAUSD Schools for Advanced Studies (SAS) program (1998)
• Creator, LAUSD Model Foreign Language Gifted / Highly Gifted K-8 Center Plan (1997)
• Member, LAUSD Ad Hoc Gifted Committee (1996 – 1999)

• Certificate in College Counseling, University of California Los Angeles, UCLA Extension (Earned with Distinction, 2010)
• EdD, Educational Leadership, K-12 Leadership In Urban School Settings, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California (2008)
• JD, University of Memphis TN (1983)
• Biology graduate studies, California State University East Bay (1975 – 1976)
• MS, Health Science, Health Statistics & Research, California State University Northridge (1974)
• AB, Sociology (Religion, Pre-Medicine), University of California Berkeley (1972)
• Professional Development: Global Education in China, Mount St. Mary’s University Los Angeles (2014); Counseling for International Students, UCLA Extension (2013); Administration & Policy in Gifted Education, University of Iowa (2007); child development, micro- & macro-economics, & architecture, Santa Monica College (1998 – 2000)

          Selected Papers:

• Grossman, LR, The Intersection of Gender Equity and Gifted Elementary Education: Does Numerical Parity Tell the Whole Story?, EdD Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2008.
• Grossman, LR, Draft Proposal for LAUSD Gifted / Highly Gifted Center:  Venice Gifted / Highly Gifted / Foreign Language Academy / Magnet, Curriculum, & Consortium (1997)
• Grossman, LR, The Case of FTC v. AMA & its Aftermath:  Regulation of the Learned Professions, research paper in partial fulfillment of requirements for JD (1983)
• Grossman, LR, Certificate of Need Application for Hospital Expansion & Remodeling, Newberg OR Community Hospital (1979)
• Rivera, EC, Rivera, AC, Grossman, LR, & Casavantes, E, Review of the Cultural & Programmatic Variables Effecting [sic] the Delivery of Social Services to the Spanish Speaking, prepared for the CA Department of Benefit Payments (1977)
• Grossman, LR, A Survey of the Information Needs of Mental Health / Mental Retardation Administrators in the Central & Western Regions of the PA Department of Public Welfare, Mon Valley Health & Welfare Council, Monessen PA (1975)
• Grossman, LR, Multiple Linear Versus Multiple Logistic Regression, thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of requirements for MS degree (1974)
• Gocka, EF, Rostami, HJ, & Grossman, LR, “Subroutine for Multiple Logistic Discriminant Function Analysis,”  Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation (1974)