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Jeff Vincent

Jeff Vincent, PhD

Associate Director

Jeff Vincent co-founded CC+S with Deborah McKoy and is currently the Center’s Associate Director.

Jeff’s research has been published in peer-reviewed and practitioner-oriented journals, books, and other outlets in addition to CC+S publications. Jeff has written extensively on a variety of issues, including school infrastructure planning, school siting and design, sustainable communities, community development, educational economics, housing policy, state school construction policies, joint use of schools, youth engagement in redevelopment, refugee resettlement, and transportation policy. Jeff is also an instructor and graduate student mentor in CC+S’s PLUS Fellows program.

Jeff is also the lead PI and director of the National Center on School Infrastructure (NCSI), funded by the U.S. Department of Education and housed in Berkeley’s Institute of Urban & Regional Development (IURD). NCSI is a national resource hub that supports states and school districts in the stewardship of America’s elementary and secondary public school facilities.

Jeff holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nebraska and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2016, Jeff won the Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, Research in the Public Interest.

See more about Jeff’s work, including vitae and media mentions, here.

Contact: jvincent@berkeley.edu

Publications + Articles

California’s School Facilities in a Changing Climate: Funding, Equity, and Resilience
Sara Hinkley and Jeff Vincent
May 7, 2026
Is California Adequately & Equitably Investing in its Public School Facilities?
Jeff Vincent
March 29, 2023
CC+S joins Stanford Medicine in a call to action: California needs climate resilient schools
Jeff Vincent
March 28, 2023
Climate-Resilient California Schools: A Call to Action
Center for Cities + Schools, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, UndauntedK12, and Ten Strands
March 3, 2023
Gauging Good Stewardship: Is California Adequately and Equitably Investing in its Public School Facilities?
Jeffrey M. Vincent, Semhar Gebrekristos, Lily Neinstedt
November 13, 2022
Planning for Resilient Early Care and Education: Addressing Climate Vulnerabilities
Jeffrey M. Vincent, Center for Cities + Schools, Low Income Investment Fund
September 1, 2022

News Coverage

Transitional kindergarten can’t expand without the right kind of classrooms (EdSource)
Jeff Vincent
October 16, 2024
CC+S speaks at White House Summit on Sustainable and Healthy K-12 School Buildings and Grounds
Jeff Vincent
May 3, 2024
Join CC+S, Stanford, UndauntedK12, and Ten Strands for a virtual policy forum on climate resilient schools for California, April 21, 2023
Jeff Vincent
March 28, 2023
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