Person

Seldin, Peter

1942

Peter Seldin is Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York. Formerly an academic dean, department chair, and professor of management, he is a specialist in the evaluation and development of faculty and administrative performance, and has been a consultant on higher education issues to more than 350 colleges and universities throughout the United States and in 45 countries around the world. A well-known speaker at national and international conferences, he has been a faculty leader at more than 50 American Council on Education leadership programs for department chairs. He has contributed numerous articles on faculty evaluation, the teaching profession, student ratings, teaching improvement, educational practice, and academic culture to such publications as The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Change Magazine. For his contributions to the scholarship of teaching, he has received honorary degrees from Keystone College (Pennsylvania) and Columbia College (South Carolina). Dr. Seldin served for seven years as co-chair of the annual International Conference on Improving Teaching. In recent years that well-attended Conference has met in South Africa, Lithuania, Sweden, and Switzerland.