Born in Bogota, Colombia, Jorge Enrique Delgado received a BSc in Dentistry (1989) and a MA in Education-Curriculum and Administration (1995) from Pontifical Javeriana University.
Dr. Delgado was a professor of Dental Public Health and Research Methods at Javeriana from 1990 to 2005, where he was also a member of the Dental School’s Department of Research and Education. His responsibilities included curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation; professional development of fellow university-wide professors; predoctoral and postdoctoral research coordination and teaching; and assessment, evaluation, and program-institutional accreditation.
Dr. Delgado received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, majoring Social and Comparative Analysis in Education with an emphasis on International Higher Education and Latin American Social and Public Policy.
After graduating, Dr. Delgado has since taught courses about Latin American Social and Public Policy, Comparative Higher Education, and Foundations of Education. He also serves as Project Coordinator of IISE's International Higher Education Study Group and the International Alumni Network, and supports visiting scholars, institutional agreements, and IISE’s online presence.
Dr. Delgado’s scholarly work examines higher education’s policy, research, and purpose mainly in the Latin American region. He answers his research questions mainly through qualitative methods, and uses the Glonacal heuristic, academic capitalism, and democratization of knowledge as frameworks.
Dr. Delgado has an extensive and long-term experience as an editor of journals in health sciences and education. Finally, his service in academic and professional societies includes LASA, HDA, AERA, and CIES.
