Matthew Campbell, PhD profile

Dr. Matthew Campbell is the Interim Director of the School of Education and Counseling and an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at West Virginia University. As Interim Director, Dr. Campbell supports faculty development and student success, collaborates with faculty to enhance academic programs, supports research efforts across the School, and cultivates partnerships across the university and with communities across the state and region—all in service of WVU's land-grant mission. Dr. Campbell also directs the Office of Educator Preparation Partnerships and Services, supporting teacher education programs across the University.

Dr. Campbell's work centers on several interconnected areas: recruiting and retaining teachers in rural and Appalachian communities; developing teacher leadership; designing structures that support continuous and networked improvement within schools and districts; and building teacher preparation programs rooted in strong, sustained partnerships with school and district partners. He has led and contributed to grant-funded initiatives that embody these commitments, including the Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers (M3T) project—a statewide networked improvement community of middle and high school mathematics teacher leaders, previously funded by the National Science Foundation, the Benedum Foundation, and the West Virginia Department of Education. His scholarship also includes a sustained line of inquiry into practice-based teacher education, with particular attention to supporting teachers' development of skill in facilitating mathematics discussions.

Dr. Campbell is a first-generation college student and a product of public K-12 education and of research-intensive, public land-grant universities. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. from Oregon State University. He taught high school mathematics in New York and North Carolina before pursuing graduate studies.