David P. Ericson, Ph.D.
Key Areas of Expertise: education policy, internationalization of the curriculum, professional development, and strategic planning
Dr. Ericson brings to Mid-Pacific International more than forty years of higher education experience as a professor, administrator, and program developer. Educated at Saint Olaf College, Cambridge University, the University of London Institute of Education, and Syracuse University, he holds the Ph.D. from the latter institution in philosophy of education and educational policy studies. He has had a distinguished career as a faculty member, researcher, and administrator at Virginia Tech, UCLA, and the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. In the College of Education at the latter institution, he has served as chairperson in two departments (Department of Educational Foundations and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction), as Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, and as Director of the Office of International Education. He has excelled in the development of educational programs in higher education throughout his career.
Dr. Ericson brings several areas of expertise to Mid-Pacific International. Due to his experience and expertise in university governance and his work on issues of program quality and quality assurance in higher education, he is able to help institutions in the process of educational planning in a competitive global environment. His involvement in international education from educational development projects in Ethiopia to the formation of university partnerships in Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam allows him to aid IHE’s institutional advancement according to their mission and vision. And, given his background in educational policy studies and his extensive theoretical work on the structure and behavior of national educational systems, he is able to develop practical “educational impact statements” that connect the local, the national, and the global in higher education in the wider policy environment.
