Regina M. Haney, EdD
Executive Director
Boards and Councils Department

Dr. Regina Haney is the executive director of the Boards and Councils Department at the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). In this capacity, she shares her experience with school and diocesan boards across the country through workshops, research, and publications. She is co-author with John Convey of Benchmarks of Excellence: A Research Project on Effective Boards of Catholic Education.

From 1991 to 2000, Dr. Haney, in addition to being the executive director of the department, was the assistant executive director of the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education Department (CACE). In that capacity, she directed curriculum projects for the Association. Among her accomplishments in this area, she coordinated the revision and publication of AIDS: A Catholic Educational Approach to HIV, Lessons to Teach About AIDS/HIV, and directed the publication of Faith, Family, And Friends, a Catholic elementary school guidance program for grades K-8. She co-edited, with Dr. Karen Ristau, As We Teach and Learn: Recognizing Our Catholic Identity, to assist faculty with the integration of gospel values into the school. In addition, she co-directed New Frontiers, a program to direct school teams to develop a plan to integrate technology into the curriculum. She co-founded the program with Fred Brigham and Angela Ann Zukowski, MHSH. New Frontiers was co-sponsored by the NCEA and The University of Dayton.

Dr. Haney also served as acting director of the CACE Department in 1991 and 1996.

Prior to joining NCEA in 1990, Dr. Haney served for nine years as the superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina. The strength of her leadership is seen in her many accomplishments as superintendent. Among these achievements are: the revision and implementation of a system-wide accreditation plan; several publications, including CRE-ACTION, a "hands-on" science guide for all grade levels; and the establishment of a network of curriculum coordinators. In the area of telecommunications, she established a satellite network for all schools in the diocese through which students accessed curriculum-based programs. Teachers and administrators participated in satellite in-service sessions, many of which were designed and produced by Dr. Haney.

She received her doctorate from Saint Mary's University, Winona, Minnesota in 2004. Her dissertation was titled “Leadership Competencies of Board Chairpersons of Award-Winning Boards of Catholic Education.”