Joshua Reichard, Ph.D.
Senior Core Faculty,
Department of Leadership and Administration
Dr. Joshua D. Reichard (he/him) is a state licensed school superintendent in Ohio and a Certified Clinical Sociologist. He has a diverse interdisciplinary background, having earned advanced degrees in social research, religion and society, and educational leadership. He has also earned graduate certificates in computer science education, data science and machine learning, and biology education. He earned his PhD at the University fo the Western Cape, the first anti-apartheid university in South Africa, where the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu served as chancellor.
Dr. Reichard served as the vice president for academic affairs and assistant superintendent at Valley Christian Schools, a large, fast-growing, multicultural, and urban network of PreK-12 schools in northeast Ohio, for more than a decade. Dr. Reichard is also an established scholar and has studied issues including urban school leadership; socioeconomic, racial, and ability-level diversity; and school choice.
He has served in various roles in higher education including self-study director, accreditation liaison, administrator, and chief academic officer. Additionally, he has an extensive history of online teaching and learning, from developing learning management systems to designing and delivering online courses. He has lived and taught overseas and has extensive global travel experience.
Dr. Reichard has taught and developed courses at ACE since 2015 and is current core faculty in doctoral research where he specializes in research design and quantiative methodologies.
Education
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Doctorate in Integration of Religion and society
University of the Western Cape -
Degree in Educational Leadership
Liberty University -
Bachelor's in Christian Education and Administration
Logos Christian College -
Master's in Organizational Leadership
Oxford Graduate School Dayton -
Degree in Science Education (Classroom Biology)
University of La Verne -
Degree in Computer Science Education
University of California Riverside -
Degree in Change Leadership
Cornell University -
Certificate in Data Science
University of California Riverside Extension
Research Interests
- School choice
- Diversity
- Urban school leadership
- Clinical and Applied Sociological
- Organizational Change
- Diversity
- Urban school leadership
- Clinical and Applied Sociology
- Organizational Change
- Religious Education
- Computer Science Education
- School Choice