STEPHEN R. HERR
MurrayStateUniversity
3106 Alexander Hall
Murray, Kentucky - 42071
731-431-1659
EDUCATION Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York
Ed.D. in Philosophy and the Social Sciences, 1995
M.A. in Philosophy and the Social Sciences, 1986
AntiochCollege, Yellow Springs, Ohio
B.A. in Secondary Education, 1983
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
2005 - Assistant Professor, MurrayStateUniversity
Murray, Kentucky
Educational Studies, Leadership and Counseling
2003 -2005 Chair of the Department of Education, LaneCollege
Jackson, Tennessee
Education
2001-2003Professor, BlackburnCollege
Carlinville, Illinois
Education
1995 -2001 Associate Professor, TennesseeWesleyanCollege
Athens, Tennessee
Education
1992 Adjunct Instructor, UrbanaUniversity
Urbana, Ohio
Geography
1989 - 1990 Adjunct Instructor, AntiochUniversity
Yellow Springs, Ohio
Classics Program and Applied Learning Theory
1986 - 1987 Teacher, GilfordMiddle-HighSchool
Gilford, New Hampshire
9th grade Geography and Civics; 11th grade U.S. History
1983 - 1984 Teacher - Aide - Coach, M.S.A.D. 72
Fryeburg, Maine
Geography - Reading - Softball and Track
1981 and 1982 Instructor, University of Rhode Island
West Greenwich, Rhode Island
Environmental Education
RELATED
EXPERIENCE
1985 - 1986 Therapeutic Counselor, Elan One Corporation
Poland Spring, Maine
Fall 1982 Copyboy, Associated Press
Washington D. C.
Fall 1980 Executive Director, Libertarian Party of New Hampshire
New Hampshire
PUBLICATIONS
AND
PRESENTATIONS
Dissertation "Connected Thoughts:
A Reinterpretation of the Reorganization of AntiochCollege in the 1920s"
ColumbiaUniversity, 1995
Articles "Hiring Teachers: Mediocrity in Search of Itself"
The Maine Times, May 16, 1986
"The Expedience of Cooperation:
AntiochCollege's Adoption of the Cooperative Model"
The Journal of Cooperative Education, Spring, 1995
"Academic Yearnings - Cooperative Responses"
The Journal of Cooperative Education, 2000
"Kennedy’s Speech Lacks Credibility, Substance"
The News, March 7, 2008
"An ADHD Checklist for Teachers"
Phi Delta Kappan, Winter-Spring, 2009
Book Connected Thoughts:
A Reinterpretation of the Reorganization of AntiochCollege in the 1920s University Press of America, Lanham, 1997
Presentations “Early Links Between Work and Study and the Inception of Cooperative Education”
Cooperative Education Association’s Annual Conference,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1998
“The Future of Our Past:
Looking at Assessing Cooperative Education's First Hundred Years”
Cooperative Education Association’s Annual Conference,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000
“The Liberal Arts: They Want Us and They Need Us,”
Cooperative Education Association’s Annual Conference,
Atlanta, Georgia, 2001
“A History of Faith and Knowledge,”
Kentucky Association of Teacher Educators Conference
Georgetown, KY, 2006
“The Stranger in Our Midst: ADHD Culture and the Disappearing Teacher,”
Kentucky Association of Teacher Educators Conference
Georgetown, KY, 2008
“Mischief: A Reconsideration of Burton Clark’s, The Distinctive College”
Midwest History of Education Conference
Chicago, IL, 2008
AWARDS,
HONORS
AND GRANTS Board of Examiners,' Office of Teacher Education and Accreditation, Tennessee Department of Education, 2003-2005
Editorial Board of The Journal of Cooperative Education, 1998-2002
Appalachian College Association Individual Travel Grants, 1998, 2000, and 2001.
“Lockmiller Teacher of the Year Award” for 1998-1999. The award is given annually to a TennesseeWesleyanCollege faculty member for “effective teaching, student counseling, research and publications, and campus leadership.”
Recognition by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the UnitedMethodistChurch for "exemplary teaching at a United Methodist-related institution of higher education," 1999.
ACADEMIC
INTERESTS School Reform, Experiential Learning, the Role of Teachers in ADHD Assessment,Cooperative Education, Faith and Knowledge,
CURRENT
PROJECTS Coordinating a “Sister Project” between LaneCollege and MSU.
A book on the relationship between faith and teaching, focusing on the role of the classroom teacher.
ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS The American Association of University Professors, Kentucky Association of Teacher Educators, the History of Education Society, Phi Delta Kappa, the American Educational Studies Association and the NAACP.