Ralph Fessler
Ralph Fessler
Dean
School of Education
Office of the Dean
102 Shaffer Hall
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (410) 516-7820
Fax: (410) 516-6697
E-mail: fess@jhu.edu
Web page:
www.spsbe.jhu.edu/
Ralph Fessler joined Hopkins in 1983 as a faculty member
and Director of the Graduate Division of Education. He
served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 1993
until being appointed Interim Dean of the School of
Professional Studies in Business and Education (SPSBE)
in 1999 and Dean in 2000. Fessler was appointed Dean of the
School of Education in January 2007, when SPSBE
became two separate academic divisions, including the Carey
Business School.
Fessler is a 1964 graduate of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where he also earned his master's degree
and, in 1968, a Ph.D. in educational administration and
supervision. He taught in public schools in Illinois and
Wisconsin and was a faculty member and administrator at the
University of Wisconsin-River Falls before coming to Johns
Hopkins. His research and program development
specializations have included teacher career stages and
development, alternative approaches to teacher education
and leadership development, and school-university
partnerships.
He has been involved in numerous partnership projects with
school systems, with a particular emphasis on the
implementation of teacher education reform initiatives in
Maryland that were designed by a commission he chaired. He
was the principal investigator of a comprehensive
alternative urban teacher education reform project, and
worked with faculty and external partners to establish the
Center for Technology in Education. He has
assisted with numerous international education initiatives,
including projects in Israel and Taiwan.
[Updated January 2007]
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