Ron Yoshida, Ph.D., is professor of education at Lehigh University. After 17 years in various administrative roles (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, helping them develop most of the dissertation proposals 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?
Yoshida is a former member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and currently serves as secretary.
He is former chair of the visiting committee for research at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.
In the last four years, he has chaired several accreditation site visit teams to Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. He also is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.