sentences:  McCartney came to Smith from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she was dean, and the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development.During her tenure at Harvard, the school introduced a three-year doctorate in educational leadership in collaboration with the Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government.Prior teaching and research experience includes service as a tenured associate professor of psychology and family studies as well as director of the Child Study and Development Center at the University of New Hampshire.