Corrine Taylor

Corrine Taylor is Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Program at Wellesley College. After graduating from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1988, she worked for three years as a strategic planning analyst for MetLife Auto & Home, where she honed her applied quantitative skills. In 1998, she received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and joined the faculty in Wellesley’s Economics Department.  In 2001 she became the first director of the College’s QR Program.

At Wellesley, Professor Taylor teaches courses in quantitative reasoning, social science data analysis, statistical analysis of education issues, microeconomics, the economics of education, and public economics. Her research focuses on the economics of education, in particular, elementary and secondary school finance. She has presented her research at conferences of the American Economic Association, the National Tax Association, and the American Education Finance Association (AEFA) and was awarded the AEFA's Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work on K-12 school finance.

Since 2002, Professor Taylor has taught critical analysis and basic quantitative analysis as components of the College’s summer bridge program “Pathways” which she helped develop. She has been invited to speak on quantitative reasoning issues at the annual meetings of the Association of American Colleges & Universities and the National Numeracy Network and she has hosted the annual meeting of the North East Consortium on Quantitative Literacy. Additionally, Professor Taylor has led workshops, given invited lectures, and served as a consultant at other colleges, universities, and public school systems that are developing QR initiatives.  Professor Taylor begins a three-year term as president of the National Numeracy Network in the spring of 2007. 

Profile last updated: 03/07