Jon Engelhardt
Dr. Jon M. Engelhardt is
the Dean of Baylor's School of Education.
"I am enormously
pleased and honored to become part of Baylor University and its School of
Education," Engelhardt said. "Broadly respected for its strong
programs in educator preparation and in health and human performance, the
School is poised to be recognized as world-class. I look forward to joining the
Baylor team, working with faculty, staff and the wider community to serve
students as well as advance professional practice and extend its knowledge
base."
Engelhardt has served as
dean of Wichita State's College of Education since 1997. During his tenure, he
focused the College's programs, resources and directions around a common
mission, while strengthening the sense of community, program quality, use of
technology, diversity, assessment and accreditation, resource development,
partnerships and research. He also serves as a professor of curriculum and
instruction and on WSU's graduate faculty, with academic and research expertise
in the areas of mathematics education for elementary and middle school
students.
"Dr. Jon Engelhardt
has spent more than 30 years helping individuals, programs and organizations in
Schools of Education grow and develop," said Dr. Terrill F. Saxon, chair
of Baylor's department of educational psychology who also chaired the dean
search committee. "His administrative experience ranges from a variety of
areas in teacher education and certification to areas that comprise exercise
science. His experience and participation at the national level has kept him
aware of the considerable challenges that face schools of education. He places
a priority on community building and collaborative problem solving."
In addition to his
administrative service at Wichita State, Engelhardt was executive director and
dean of The Center for Excellence in Education at Northern Arizona University
from 1992-97, and dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas
at El Paso from 1988-92. For more than a decade, he served at Arizona State
University in several capacities, including coordinator of the Mathematics
Learning Center from 1974-87, assistant/associate chair of the department of
elementary education from 1979-82, department chair from 1982-85, assistant
dean (acting) for professional teacher preparation from 1985-86, and College
Coordinator (director) of Teaching Centers from 1986-87.
Engelhardt is a graduate of
Arizona State, where he received his bachelor's degree cum laude in elementary
education (mathematics, music) in 1967, and a master's degree summa cum laude
in elementary education in 1969. He earned his doctorate in mathematics
education from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972. He began his
education career as a middle school math teacher in Tempe, Ariz., and has
taught elementary math education at the university level since 1972.
Engelhardt is a member of
the executive board of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE) and was a member of NCATE's board of examiners from 1996
until his appointment to NCATE's executive board in 2006.
His professional
memberships include serving as Wichita State's chief institutional
representative for the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education
(AACTE), where he was formerly a member of that organization's board of
directors, chair and member of the fiscal committee for the Association of
Teacher Educators, founding member (and past president) of the Research Council
for Mathematical Learning, chair of the Council of Education Deans (Kansas),
and current/past member of Great City Colleges of Education, Kansas Association
of Colleges of Teacher Education, National Council of Teachers for Mathematics,
National Education Association and various associations in Kansas, Arizona and
Texas.
Engelhardt is the author of
four books on math education, including diagnostic-remedial approaches to
mathematics teaching and learning, and has published numerous articles in books
and scholarly journals on teacher education issues. He has successfully
directed/co-directed several funding projects, the largest of which was a $3.5
million grant from the National Science Foundation in 1989 that established a
Comprehensive Regional Center for Minorities in Math and Science at UT-El Paso.
In addition, he has been an invited presenter and panel member at many national
and international education conferences and research councils.
Engelhardt's university
service most recently at Wichita State has been extensive. He has served on or
chaired search committees for dean of the College of Fine Arts and for
associate vice president for academic affairs; as a member of the faculty
development, recognition and rewards committee, which resulted in the
establishment of the Center for Teaching and Research Excellence; the
university's technology committee; academic affairs council; academic affairs
sub-committee on redesigning teacher education; Institute for Rehabilitative
Research redesign steering committee; and Committee on Developing a Common Core
in Administrator Preparation Masters Degrees.
Engelhardt is a member of
several honorary professional societies, including Phi Kappa Phi (currently
president of the WSU chapter), Phi Delta Kappa and Golden Key. Other honors
include the 2004 Special Recognition Award from WSU Student Support Services,
the 1997 Distinguished Administrator Award (Higher Education) from the Arizona
School Administrators Association, and the 1997 Arizona Circle of Excellence
Award from the Arizona North Central Association for "long history of
exemplary service to quality education in Arizona."
Engelhardt will be joined
at Baylor by his wife, Diana, an active volunteer in her church, the WSU
Women's Association and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The Engelhardts have four
adult children and six grandchildren, with a seventh expected in September.
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