Lester F. Goodchild, Ph.D.Professor of Education, Director, Masters in Educational Administration - Higher Education Administration EmphasisDr. Goodchild is currently the Director of the Higher Education Program and Professor of Education. In the 2006-2007 academic year, he served as Dean of the School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries. Prior to coming to Santa Clara, Dr. Goodchild was Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Professor of Higher Education. He also served as Interim Dean and Associate Professor of Education at the University of Denver. He began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Iowa State University and Director of Suburban Campuses at DePaul University in Chicago during the late 1980s. In addition, Dr. Goodchild has been a visiting professor or scholar at Penn State University, Boston College, and the University of California Berkeley. His specialty is the study of higher education, with emphasis on its history, public policy, administration, and professional ethics. He has edited four books, Administration as a Profession (1991), The History of Higher Education (1989, 1997, 2007), Public Policy and Higher Education (1997), and Rethinking the Dissertation Process: Tackling Personal and Institutional Obstacles (1997), and his other 50 refereed articles, book chapters, book reviews, and professional publications focus on the history of American higher education, education and higher education as fields of study, and Catholic higher education. Recently, Dr. Goodchild recently organized and conducted a national workshop, the first Early Career Faculty Teaching Workshop, for the Council for the Advancement of Higher Education Programs at the Association for the Study of Higher Education annual meeting in Jacksonville, Florida from November 5 to 6. As the council's elected program chair, he designed the workshop that brought together 27 assistant professors from around the country, who were nominated by the program directors, to hear and participate in panels on teaching five different content areas in higher education (namely, history of higher education, curriculum and instruction, diversity and gender, administration and organization, and faculty issues) and on dissertation advising. Senior faculty from the University of Michigan, Columbia University's Teachers College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Pennsylvania, University of Kansas, University of Massachusetts Boston, Seton Hall University, and Santa Clara University comprised these two invited panels. At this workshop, Goodchild presented an opening address, "Joy and Hunger: Listening to the Voice of Vocation in Your Life," prepared by Professor Jennifer Haworth, Loyola University of Chicago, participated in the invited panel presentation on dissertation advising by giving, "Assisting the Dissertation Researcher," and offered the introductory remarks to the workshop's concluding address, "Rethinking the Doctorate: Responding to Emerging Conditions," by Dr. Chris Golde, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies at Stanford University and former Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His most recent publication was: "The Beginnings of Education at American Universities: Curricular Conflicts over the Study of Pedagogy as Practice or Science, 1856-1940," in Passion, Fusion, Tension: New Education and Educational Sciences, End 19th—Middle 20th Century, edited by Rita Hofstetter and Bernard Schneuwly, Series Explorations—Collection de la Société Suisse pour la Recherche en Education, vol. 134 (Bern: Peter Lang Publisher, 2006), pp. 69-106. His forthcoming article is: "Public Policy Dangers Facing American State Universities: Five Historic Governance Intrusions and Policy Shifts," in the Journal of Higher Education (in press). Dr. Goodchild has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota; a M.A. in Religious Studies from Indiana University; a M.Div. from St. Meinrad School of Theology in southern Indiana; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His Ph.D. dissertation explored the rise of American Catholic universities and their respective Catholic characters from 1842 to 1980 in a comparative study of the University of Notre Dame, Loyola University Chicago, and DePaul University. |
