Faculty Vita

William Foster, Ed.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

(In process) The Postadministration hypothesis: Educational administration in a fractured age. Proposal for book accepted by Falmer Press, London.

Postmodernism and ethics in administration (1999) Chapter in book edited by Paul Begley, OISE. For SUNY Press.

Beck, L. And Foster, W.(1999). Community and Educational Administration. In J. Murphy and K. S. Louis, Handbook of Research in Educational Administration. AERA, Longmans.

The Limits of Leadership. (April, 2002). Submitted to the Journal of Thought.

Guest editor, Educational Administration Quarterly issue on postmodernism in educational administration. August, 1998.

Foreword, G. Furman & C. Metz, Community and Schools: Promise and Paradox. NY: TC Press, 1997

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Educational Research Association (A, G).

Canadian Society for Studies in Education

Canadian Association for Studies in Educational Administration

AERA Special Interest Group - Organizational Theory (newsletter editor)

National Conference for Professors of Educational Administration

Conference Presentations

(2000) Democracy, Leadership, and the Technologies of Thought. Paper presented at the University Council for Educational Administration Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. November.

(1999) UCEA panel on the standards movement.

(1998) Symposium on Handbook of Research in Educational Administration, American Educational Research Association, San Diego.

(1997) Educational Standards: A Modernist Agenda in a Postmodern World. Paper presented at University Council on Educational Administration, Orlando, Fl, October, 1997.

(1996) Concepts of Power. Paper presented at Learned Societies Conference, Niagra Falls, Canada, June.

Discussant: Postmodernism and Educational Administration: Implications for Excellence. University Council on Educational Administration Annual Conference, St. Louis, October, 1998.

Discussant: Critical Ethnography paper session: University Council on Educational Administration Annual Conference, St. Louis, October, 1998.

Presentation, AMoral Dimensions of Leadership,@ to Indiana University School Administrators Association Workshop, June, 1998.

Chair, paper presentation, University Council on Educational Administration, Orlando, Fl, October, 1997.

Section Chair, Leadership and Leaders, and Session Chair, Leadership in Different Contexts. Annual Meeting of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management, Montreal, August, 1997.

Chair, Panel Presentation: The Checkered History of Leadership: Disputes and Contestations National Council of Professors of Educational Administration Annual Meeting, Vail, CO, August, 1997.

Research Areas

My scholarly interest focuses on the epistemological status of the field of educational leadership, with particular attention as to how sociological and philosophical concerns such as critical theory, moral leadership, postmodernism, and communitarianism may influence the knowledge base of the field.

Service/Outreach Projects

Citizens Advisory Committee, Aurora School, Bloomington, IN

Editorial Board, Educational Administration Quarterly (1996-1999)

Editorial Board, Journal of School Leadership (1996-1999)

Board of Trustees, UCEA Center for the Study of Leadership and Ethics in Educational Administration Educational Policy Committee, IU Bloomington, 1997-1999

Promotion, Tenure & Contracts Committee, SOE, IU Bloomington, 1997-1998

Program evaluator, University of Toledo, in connection with Ohio Board of Regents Review of Educational Leadership Programs, State of Ohio, 1997

Honors/Awards

Invited lecture, Simon Fraser University, July, 2000

Invited Respondent, AERA , New Orleans, 2000

Keynote Speaker, Invitational Conference on Ethics and Leadership, OISE/University of Toronto, Sept. 1996

Keynote Speaker, Southern Regional Council on Educational Administration, Savannah, Georgia, November, 1996.

Invited speaker, AERA Graduate Student SIG, 1996.

Invited address, University of San Diego. First Annual Leadership Lecture, December, 1994.

Invited address, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, February, 1993.

Visiting Fellow, University of London, Institute of Education (Fall, 1987).

Faculty Research Grants, University of San Diego (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990).

Interviewed by Liberal Education on University of San Diego's Leadership Minor (Vol. 73, 2, March/April, 1987).

Videotape Interview, Monash University, Australia (August, 1982).

Award, "Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Research," University of Delaware, College of Education (1981; Honorable Mention, 1980

Ford Foundation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1973 - 1975).