Nancy Golden (born 1951) is the first Professor of Practice in the College of Education at the University of Oregon.
[3] She completed her dissertation, The Use of a Computer Networking System to Obtain and Analyze Group Responses during Classroom Lectures, for her 1987 Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at the University of Oregon.
[4] Golden is married to Roger Guthrie, and she has adult children and two grandchildren.
[5] In 1974, Golden began working as a special education teacher in Eugene, Oregon.
[6] She then became director of educational support services for Eugene's schools,[3] and from 1993 to 1997 she served as Albany School District assistant superintendent of instruction,[7] where she was "responsible for updating instructional programs, selecting educational materials, overseeing educational research and assisting individual schools".