Karen A. Randolph is an American academic who studies social work.
She is Agnes Flaherty Stoops Professor in Child Welfare at Florida State University.
[1] Randolph majored in social work at Central Michigan University, where she graduated in 1977.
[1] Returning to graduate study, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000.
Her dissertation, High School Graduation among Youth in Poverty, was supervised by Mark W. Fraser,[1] and studied the connections between high school dropouts in the United States and parent employment.