Palmyra, New Jersey 08065
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Dr. Robert Jarvis
Educational Programming and Development
Dr. Robert Jarvis currently serves as the Director of Equity Leadership Initiatives for the Penn Center for Educational Leadership in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He brings to his role many years of experience in educational leadership and professional development training and consultation in education, business and industry. His current professional interests revolve around working with regional school administrators and teachers in better addressing the learning needs of diverse learners through district-wide leadership, policy and instructional development.
Dr. Jarvis developed and currently provides leadership to the Delaware Valley Consortium for Excellence and Equity, the New Jersey Consortia for Excellence Through Equity and Long Island Consortia for Excellence and six collaborative inquiry and professional development based organizations that are dedicated to supporting over 100 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York member districts in effectively building their capacities to open doors of opportunity and accelerate the success and achievement of each and every one of their students. When first coming to Penn he served as the manager for the SE Pennsylvania Standards Consortium working with 40 districts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in support of their efforts in effective implementation of their standards-based education programs.
Earlier in Bob’s career he served as Associate Director for the Office of Professional Development in the School of Education at Syracuse University, as Dean of Academic Affairs at Remington College in Lafayette, Louisiana, as Assistant Professor of Education and Director of Outreach Programs for the School of Education at the University of Portland, as Coordinator of Learning Assistance Services at the University, and as a School Psychologist with the Portland, OR School District. In Portland he administered and developed highly successful graduate degree programs in educational leadership and instructional development for K-12 teachers and administrators offered throughout Oregon, Washington, Canada, Hawaii and Guam.
Dr. Jarvis holds a B.S. degree from Western Oregon State University in Psychology and Corrections, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Educational Psychology from Michigan State University.
Dr. Richard Callahan
Senior Advisor for Strategy and Partnerships
Dr. Richard Callahan is a full-time Professor at the University of San Francisco, with a joint faculty appointment in both the School of Nursing and Health Professions and the School of Management. He is Co-Director of the MPH-Health Policy Leadership concentration at the USF Sacramento and Academic Director of the Master of Public Leadership, USF Washington, D.C. campus. Dr. Callahan has served for the past two years as the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Partnerships for the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice.
His presentations, research, teaching, and consulting focus on strategies and leadership behaviors that are effective in complex, demanding, and dynamic environments in the public and nonprofit sectors. He has taught, designed, and delivered leadership programs for elected and appointed officials in state and local government for over 20 years, typically teaching several hundred public and nonprofit sector leaders each year.
He has been a lead consultant for the Milbank Memorial Fund foundation’s national Emerging Leaders Program for state health policy legislators and executive staff from over 20 states since 2016. He directed the Sierra Health Foundation Leadership Program for 15 years.
Dr. Callahan is an elected Fellow the National Academy of Public Administration, a nonprofit academy chartered by Congress for the past 50 years to advise on complex public governance challenges.
His research publications include more than 40 peer review articles, journal articles, book chapters, book and reports. Most recently, he Co-Chaired the National Academy of Public Administration Working Group on the Intergovernmental Dimensions of the COVID-19 Response report.
He has been the Keynote speaker for the Symposium on Leadership and Policy, 2019, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and for the U.S. Air Force 2009 annual Academy Faculty Award Ceremony. He was a Fulbright Specialist Program Fellow in 2011 at Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey. He was the Visiting Scholar 2017-2018 for the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento and visiting researcher at Oxford University, 2016.
He was co-designer of the University of Southern California’s Executive Master of Leadership degree, as well as director of leadership programs for the National Conference of State Legislatures, California State Government Leadership Institute, and the California Institute of Mental Health. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, attended Tenri University in Nara Prefecture, Japan, and has a master degree and doctorate degree from the University of Southern California.