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Ron Yoshida
Professor and Provost Emeritus

Iacocca Hall
111 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Phone: 610 758-6249
Fax: 610 758-3243
Email: rky2@lehigh.edu

BIO
Dr. Yoshida is Professor of Education at Lehigh University. After 17 years in various administrative roles as department chair, dean, associate provost and provost at three universities, Fordham, City University of New York, and Lehigh, he now primarily teaches doctoral students in the Educational Leadership program and helps develop most of the dissertation topics in the program. He is most attracted to working with colleagues who pose interesting questions.  Some of those questions include: What are the career paths of administrators in international schools?  What should administrators consider as their business continuity plans for their schools’ technology infrastructure?  Do teachers really want to be teacher leaders?  Do school leaders and teachers actually promote cheating in schools?

Dr. Yoshida is currently serving as Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.  He is former Chair of the Visiting Committee for Research at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton.  In the last four years, he has chaired several accreditation site visit teams to Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He also is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. 

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