Dr. John P. Sikula

Dr. John P. Sikula is Vice President for Regional Centers and Outreach at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. He was an Education Dean for 25 years, previously serving in this capacity at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana (1976-84), California State University, Long Beach (1984-95), National University in San Diego, California (1995-97), and Ashland University (1998-2001). Dr. Sikula is former President of the national Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), 1989-90. He was the Founding President of the State of California Association of Teacher Educators (SCATE), 1984-86.

Dr. Sikula has served as a consultant to schools, universities, professional associations, and education-related groups in all 50 states and 24 countries. His writings include some 200 professional publications, including having been Senior Editor of the 1996 award-winning Handbook of Research on Teacher Education, Second Edition, published by Macmillan.

Dr. Sikula has a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Foundations of Education. His honors include five ATE Presidential Awards for Service (1986, 1993, 1995, 1998, and 1999); being recognized by ATE as “Distinguished Educator” (1996) and as “Distinguished Member” (1994); being selected via national competition as one of 75 “Young Educational Leaders of America” by Phi Delta Kappa (1981); having received an “Outstanding Teaching Award” from the University of Toledo (1971); and having been named Wadsworth Publishing Distinguished Teacher Educator (2001).

Dr. Sikula’s fields of specialization and areas of research include educational leadership, schooling reform, history and philosophy of education, multicultural education, and educational sociology.