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Dr. John Weidman
Executive Board Member
Dr. John C. Weidman is Emeritus Professor of Higher and International Development Education. Initially appointed as Associate Professor of Higher Education in January of 1979, he moved to Emeritus status in May of 2017. He is a former department chair (1986-93; 2007-10) and director (2004-07) of the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE). He is an affiliated faculty member of the area studies programs in the University Center for International Studies (UCIS). Prof. Weidman has held visiting faculty positions at Nagoya University (Visiting Research Fellow and Professor, Graduate School of International Development) in Japan (2011), Beijing Normal University (Guest Professor) in China (2007-12), Maseno University (UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Research, Institute of Research and Postgraduate Studies) in Kenya (1993-94), Augsburg University (Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor of the Sociology of Education in the Philosophical Faculty I) in Germany (1986-87), and Tel-Aviv University (Fulbright Inter-Country Award, School of Education) in Israel (1987). 

In addition to graduate teaching, research and publication on issues of international as well as domestic education policy and management, he has consulted on education development projects in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Viet Nam and Uzbekistan for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and in Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Kosovo, South Africa and Zambia for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He also has a longstanding record of publications on the socialization of students at both the secondary and tertiary levels of education. Dr. Weidman serves as chief advisor for the Lelei Foundation and leading fundraiser.
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