Boulder, CO 80304, USA / Phone(720) 232-1417 (mobile)
Reynold Feldman, Ph.D.
Objective / Meaningful work that results in personal or societal transformation.Work experience / 3/2010 - Scribes Associated Boulder, CO
Co-Principal Associate
- Writing coach and editor for graduate students; assisting them with master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, course papers, and work applications. Also editing/co-writing books for professionals. Website:
Tutor
- Assisting high-school, undergraduate, and graduate students with writing and test preparation (ACT, SAT, GRE) as well as international students with English. Website:
Executive Director
- Nonprofit administrator for an international nonprofit supplying products, services, and ideas to help the world become wiser (part-time position). Recent Project: Leading the “Better Schools for a Better World” Project, with support from the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, Brighton, England, at the Free Teachers College, Ollerup, Denmark.
- Current Project: Developing bi-lingual (Spanish/English) wisdom lifestyle seminars with Cedar Barstow, MA, CHT, Boulder, CO; Ramon Cuencas-Zamora, PhD, Dallas, TX, & Juan Prieto, MA, MEd, Dallas, TX.
Executive Director
- Nonprofit administrator, grant writer, board developer, publicist, and planner for a then 21-year-old international medical-relief organization (half-time position).
Executive Director (Interim)
- Nonprofit administrator, grant writer, overseas mission planner, coordinator of a $250,000 fundraising event, budget manager, Board liaison for a then 23-year-old international medical charity.
Principal
- Fundraiser (ca. $2.5 million raised to date), grant writer, strategic planner, board developer, event manager, and market developer for several dozen nonprofits in the State of Hawaii.
Principal
- Program consultant to the Bush Foundation and Saint Paul Foundation, St. Paul, and McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis; Project Evaluator, Blandin Foundation, Little Falls, MN; grant writer, World Learning, Inc., Brattleboro, VT; education consultant, Northeastern University, Boston, & Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.
Assistant to the Chancellor for International Programs
- Co-developer of Minnesota State University’s bi-national community college in Akita, Japan; evaluator of international programs at the System’s seven university campuses; drafter of a successful $640,000 System-wide Bush Foundation grant proposal for faculty development.
Academic Vice President & Community Faculty Member
- Chief academic officer at an urban state university campus of 7,000; supervisor of four deans and a multi-million-dollar budget; recipient of System commendation for ethnic, racial, and gender diversification of faculty; co-creator of a State community college in Akita, Japan.
Dean of Program Development & Professor of English
- Supervisor of a 20-person staff to run two adult baccalaureate degree programs, an individualized B.A. program, a Hispanic community field center, continuing education, women’s studies, interdisciplinary studies, and faculty development at an urban university of 10,000; writer of successful Kellogg and Federal education (FIPSE/Exxon) grants; co-creator of a major general-education curriculum reform at the University; nationally recognized authority on innovative urban and adult education, faculty development, and general-education reform; teacher of interdisciplinary courses and prize-winning undergraduate advisor.
Director, Center for Program Development
- Second incumbent in this job; publisher of “The Innovator,” a campus-wide monthly newsletter (1974-1987); developer of the Center from the university area for catalyzing new curriculum to a major administrative unit that not only helped create new programs but housed them—a transition recognized by the elevation of the director to become the university’s fourth dean.
Lecturer in English
- Teacher of undergraduate English courses to U.S. military personnel and dependents on four U.S. bases in then West Germany.
Assistant Director, New College
- Co-founder and second-in-command at UH-Manoa’s Experimental School in the Humanities, directed by Professor Richard Rapson; manager of the Upperclassmen Graduation Project program; co-teacher of interdisciplinary courses in philosophy, religion, and cross-cultural studies.
Intercultural Activities Officer
- Incumbent in a one-year position to provide orientation, debriefing, and co-curricular enrichment to East-West Center grantees from the U.S., Asia and the Pacific; researcher and advisor on co-curricular education to the Center and co-participant in recreating the Center as a cluster of thematic (vs. functional) institutes.
Coordinator, Liberal Studies Program
- First administrator of an innovative baccalaureate program at Manoa that permitted students to create individually tailored career-focused undergraduate majors. The program continues to this day.
Assistant Professor of English
- Teacher of undergraduate and masters-level courses in English and American literature, with a specialty in the latter; co-developer of international programming for the Manoa Campus; a founding member of Manoa’s Student-Faculty Relations Committee.
Lecturer in English
- Teacher of undergraduate courses in composition, introduction to poetry and fiction, and American literature.
Education / 9/62 – 12/66YaleUniversityNew Haven, CT
Ph.D. – English Language and Literature
- Specialty: 19th-Century American Literature
- Dissertation on innocence in the novels of Henry James
M.A. – English Language and Literature
- ColonelMcCormick-ChicagoTribuneFellow & YaleCollege Fellow
B.A. – English Language and Literature
- Graduated magna cum Laude; elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 6/60
- Yale-Heidelberg Junior Year Exchange Scholar, Ruprecht-Karl-Universitaet, Heidelberg, Germany, 7/58 – 8/59
- Graduated cum Laude from this boarding high school, founded in 1864.
Professional memberships / Member and president, Blue Sky Associates: Catalysts for Educational Change, Minneapolis
Member and past president, Lions Club of Honolulu
Member, Phi Beta Kappa (Yale chapter, elected 1960)
Fellow, Society for Values in Higher Education, Portland, Oregon, since 1982
Community activities / Vice-Chair, Community Mentors, Hui o Hawai`i – Youth Delegation to the 2003 World Congress of Youth, Bouznika, Morocco
Member, Lector, and Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion,Manoa-Punahou Catholic Community, Honolulu (through December 2007)
CatholicHospital Visitor, Diocese of Honolulu (through December 2007)
Advisory Board member, All-Believers Network, Honolulu
President, The Lions Club of Honolulu, 2005-2006; currently member-at-large
Member, Steering Comm.,Open Table Interfaith Discussion Group, Honolulu (through December 2009)
Publications (non-academic) / Author, Stories I Remember—My Pilgrimage to Wisdom: A Spiritual Autobiography, Wisdom Foundation Publishing,November,2009
Editor, Simone Feldman, Voices from a Vanished Past—Memories of a Christian Childhood in Hitler’s Germany, Wisdom Foundation Publishing, 2006
Co-Author, WisingUp—A Youth Guide to Good Living, Wisdom Foundation Publishing, June, 2005; reissued June, 2007, by Rowman & Littlefield
Editor, Saleem Ahmed, Ph.D., Beyond Veil and Holy War: Islamic Teachings and Muslim Practices with Biblical Comparisons, Moving Pen Publishers, 2002.
Author, Wisdom: Daily Reflections for a New Era, St. Mary’s Press, 2000
Co-Author, A World Treasury of Folk Wisdom, HarperCollins, 1992
Assorted academic and popular articles, chapters, poems, and speeches – scholarly résumé listing these, available in hard copy by request
Languages / Fluent: English & German; Skilled: French, Indonesian, & Spanish; Beginner: Chinese, Danish, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese
Non-spoken languages: Anglo-Saxon and Latin
Date / December, 2010
ReferencesAvailable on request
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