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About Carnegie Corporation
Barbara Gombach
Project Manager,
Education
Barbara Gombach, program associate in education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, focuses on grant making in higher education. She has nearly twenty years of experience in university administration and college teaching.
Before joining the Corporation, Gombach served for nearly five years as Assistant Dean at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where she worked on faculty and curriculum matters for two professional masters programs. Earlier, she worked as Assistant Director of Columbia University's Southern Asian Institute, combining her academic interests in South Asia and the humanities with her administrative experience in a campus-wide multidisciplinary program in South Asian studies. While at Columbia, Gombach worked in several national networks for international studies that have been developed through U.S. Department of Education Title VI funding: National Resource Centers for Foreign Language and Area Studies and the Centers for International Business Education. She has also taught courses in South Asian religions at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Gombach has a long-standing interest in public education. In the 1980s she worked with special opportunity programs in The City University of New York (CUNY), and with CUNY's school-college collaborations in New York City. During that time, she worked as a consultant, writing grant proposals and preparing conference reports and other written materials for organizations such as The College Board and CityKids Foundation.
Gombach holds a Ph.D. in Religion from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in philosophy from C. W. Post College, Long Island University.
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