John Weidman

John Weidman
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5910 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-1772
EMAIL: weidman@pitt.edu

Full Time Faculty - Professor/Department Chair

John C. Weidman is Professor of Education and of Sociology and Director of the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE). 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 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

School Affiliations

Department: Administrative and Policy Studies - Professor
Program: Higher Education Management - Professor
Program: Social and Comparative Analysis in Education - Professor

Education

Ph.D., Sociology of Education, University of Chicago, 3/31/1974
A.M., Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 6/30/1968
A.B., Sociology, Princeton University, 6/30/1967

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

Weidman, John C. and Adiya Enkhjargal. “Corruption in Higher Education.” Pp. 63-88 in David P. Baker and Alexander W. Wiseman (Eds.), The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education. International Perspectives on Education and Society. Vol. 9. Bingley, UK: JAI Press, Emerald Group Publishing, 2008.

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Recent Course Instruction

Fall 2008 (2091)

Summer 2008 (2087)

Spring 2008 (2084)

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Recent Presentations

Higher Education in China: Tradition and Adaptation
Great Wall, Terrible Towel: Understanding China, Connecting to Pittsburgh; Lecture series sponsored by Winchester Thurston School and the Confucius Institute, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
Internationalization of Higher Education in Korea
The United States and the Koreas: A Critical Relationship, a Symposium sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

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Recent Grants

Education Development Center (EDC), Washington, DC, Decentralized Basic Education 2 Project (DBE2), funded by USAID: Partner with universities in Central and East Java, South Sulawesi, and Aceh to support capacity building in training of teachers and principals for decentralized basic education, professional development of academic staff, and institutional management, 1 August 2006-30 September 2009 ($769,000). (with Maureen W. McClure)
Creative Associates International, Washington, DC, Assistance to Basic Education Project (ABE-BE), funded by USAID: Supporting Outreach, Communication, Inter-disciplinary Analysis, and Legacies (SOCIAL): providing technical assistance for the Social Transition (ST) team in USAID’s Bureau for Europe & Asia, Office of Democracy, Governance and Social Transition (E&E/DGST) in the areas of analytic activities addressing regional social sector issues, and knowledge sharing efforts (first year activities focusing on corruption in education; diabilities in cooperation with the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; and child welfare in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development), 1 October 2006-30 September 2007 ($130,000).

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