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John C. Weidman |
- University of Chicago (PhD in Sociology of Education, 1974)
- University of Chicago (AM in Social Sciences, 1968)
- Princeton University (AB, Sociology, 1967)
- Princeton University (Certificate in American Civilization, 1967)
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative Education Reform
- Higher Education Sector Development
- Education Management and Policy Analysis
Professional Biography
Dr. Weidman is currently the Chair of the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies at the Scool of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to his new appointment, he was the director of the Institute of International Studies in Education. Weidman is holds a joint appointment in Educational Policy and Administration and the Department of Sociology. He is also a faculty member at the African Studies Program, Asian Studies Center, the Center for Russian and East Eurpopean Studies, and the Center for West European Studies. Other positions he held include the UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Research in the Institute of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Maseno University (then Maseno University College) in Kenya in 1993 and Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor of the Sociology of Education on the Philosophical Faculty I of Augsburg University in Germany between 1986 and 1987. In addition to graduate teaching, research and publication on issues of comparative and international as well as domestic education management and policy analysis, he has consulted on projects in Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and in Kenya and South Africa for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Research Interests & Current Projects
Dr. Weidman's research and consulting focuses on issues of comparative education reform, with an emphasis on policy and finance in nations undergoing the transition to a market economy. He began this work in the summer of 1993, when he completed a comprehensive study of the higher education system in Mongolia as a consultant on a project funded by the ADB. Since 1997, he had worked on AD technical assistance (TA) projects in Mongolia as Team Co–Leader and Higher Education Academic Program Management Expert, as Higher Education Accreditation Expert, and as General Education Expert on the 1999 Education Sector Study and Strategy for 2000–05. This work was expanded to include five Central Asian countries (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) in 2002 during the course of an ADB project on the management of education reform following the demise of the Soviet Union. In the summer of 2005, Weidman worked as the Education Policy Specialist on an ADB project to design the Third Education Sector Development Project and a new 10–year Master Plan for the education system of Mongolia. In the fall of 1993, he helped to design a Centre for Research on Higher Education (CEREHIED) at Maseno University College in Kenya during his term as holder of a UNESCO Chair. During 2000–2002, he worked on the Tertiary Education Linkages Project (TELP) funded by the USAID in South Africa, providing technical assistance in institutional planning and management to the University of the North and the University of Durban–Westville. In 2003, he received funding from ALO/USAID for a linkage project with Moi University in Kenya focused on revitalizing institutional strategic planning capacity.
Courses Taught
- ADMPS 2091 – Higher Education Master's Seminar
- ADMPS 2098 – Directed Study
- ADMPS 2099 – Guidance in the Master's Degree
- ADMPS 3092 – Dissertation Research Seminar
- ADMPS 3092 – Internship
- ADMPS 3097 – Supervised Research
- ADMPS 3098 – Directed Study
- ADMPS 3099 – Guidance in the Doctoral Degree
- ADMPS 3207 – Sector Analysis & Project Design
- ADMPS 3136 – Comparative Higher Education
Selected Publications
Weidman, John C. (2006). Student Socialization in Higher Education: Organizational Perspectives. Chapter 14 in Clifton C. Conrad and Ronald C. Serlin (Eds.), The Sage Handbook for Research in Education: Engaging Ideas and Enriching Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Perna, Laura W.; & Weidman, John C. . (2006). Introduction to Section Two, Promising Problems and Approaches to Inquiry: Across and Within Fields. In Clifton F. Conrad and Ronald C. Serlin (Eds.), The Sage Handbook for Research in Education: Engaging Ideas and Enriching Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Yoder, Brian L.; & Weidman, John C. (2006). Struggling Through Education Reform during the First Decade of the Post–Soviet Era in Central Asia: Mongolia and Uzbekistan. In Mohamed A. Nur–Awaleh and Adel Al–Bataineh (Eds.), International Education Systems: Global Perspectives. Lanham MD: Rowman Littlefield, Scarecrow Education.
Weidman, John C., Darla J. Twale, and Elizabeth L. Stein. (2001). Socialization of Graduate and Professional Students in Higher Education: A Perilous Passage? ASHE–ERIC Higher Education Report, Vol. 28, No. 3. San Francisco: Jossey–Bass.
Yeager, John L.; Nelson, Glenn M.; Potter, Eugenie A.; Weidman, John C.; and Zullo, Thomas G. (Eds.). (2001). ASHE Reader on Finance in Higher Education. Second Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.
Weidman, John C.; & Namgi Park (Eds.). (2000). Higher Education in Korea: Tradition and Adaptation. New York, NY: Falmer Press.
Chapman, David W.; Weidman, John C.; Cohen, Marc; & Mercer, Malcolm. (2005). The Search for Quality: A Five Country Study of National Strategies to Improve Educational Quality In Central Asia. International Journal of Educational Development, 25(5): 514–530.
Weidman, John C. (2005). Review of Academic Disciplines: Holland’s Theory and the Study of College Students and Faculty by John C. Smart, Kenneth A. Feldman, and Corinna A. Ethington. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000. Journal of Higher Education, 76: 232–234.
Weidman, John C.; Chapman, David W.; Cohen, Marc; & Lelei, Macrina C. (2004). Access to Education in Five Newly Independent States of Central Asia and Mongolia: A Regional Agenda. pp. 181–197 in Stephen P. Heyneman and Alan J. DeYoung (Eds.), Challenges for Education in Central Asia. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Weidman, John C.; & Elizabeth L. Stein (2003). Socialization of Graduate Students to Academic Norms. Research in Higher Education, 44 (6): 641–656.
Weidman, John C.; & Bat–Erdene, Regsurengiin. (2001). Mongolia. In Rebecca Marlow–Ferguson and Chris Lopez (Eds.), World Education Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition. Detroit, MI: Gale Group.
