University of Pittsburgh

Graduate Student, Administrative & Policy Studies

PhD student in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education - Emphasis in International Higher Education, Latin America

School of Education

John Weidman

About

Professor and researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Dental School in Bogota Colombia (1990-2005). Experience: professional development of fellow professors in dentistry and other academic disciplines; program and institutional accreditation; research management and teaching at the predoctoral and posdoctoral levels; coordination of evaluation and assessment; curriculum development of research seminars, predoctoral program and public health component in dentistry; subeditor/editor of scientific journal Universitas odontologica.

Professor at the Universidad Santo Tomas posdoctoral program in Endodontics in Bogota Colombia (2002-2004). Experience: conducting research seminars and curriculum development in research methods.

Doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education in Pittsburgh PA, US (2006-present). Experience: Creation of International Education Brown Bag series of lectures; leader of Visions of Latin America, a student publication sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies; Latin American Social and Public Policy fellow (2006-2007); K. Leroy Irvis fellow (2007-2010); representative of the Council of Graduate Students in Education-CGSE to the School of Education Council; co-teaching of doctoral course in Comparative Higher Education.
Research: inequalities in higher education, higher education opportunities for Latinos/Hispanics; research and knowledge dissemination in Latin American Universities-publication of scientific journals. Field research trips to Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.

Editor of scientific dental journal Universitas Odontologica in  (2008-present): http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revUnivOdontologica/ with a facebook group of near 900 members.

Contact Information

Skype user: jorge.enrique.delgado2


 

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