Anthony G. Rud Jr.

Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies
School of Education
Purdue University
Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education
100 North University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098 USA

Email: rud@purdue.edu
Phone: 765-494-7310
Fax: 765-496-1228

Home page: http://www.edst.purdue.edu/rud

Anthony Gordon Rud Jr. is associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies, School of Education at Purdue University. He came to Purdue in 1994 as associate dean, and served in that role until 2001. From 2001 to 2002, Rud served as interim head of the Department of Educational Studies. He received his A.B. with honors from Dartmouth College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University.

Rud's research and teaching interests center upon the philosophical and historical foundations of education, with particular emphasis upon the moral dimensions of teacher education, educational administration, and higher education. He is currently writing on Albert Schweitzer's legacy for educational thought and practice. Recent work includes research with Alan M. Beck of Purdue's Center for the Human-Animal Bond on the moral and cognitive aspects of human-animal interaction in schools; a book chapter on the moral dimensions of engineering education, co-authored with an engineering professor for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates publishers; and an essay on being an interim head in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The author of a number of articles and reviews, Rud regularly makes presentations at major professional conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic and professional journals, and was chair of the editorial board of Purdue University Press. Rud was senior editor and contributor to A Place for Teacher Renewal: Challenging the Intellect, Creating Educational Reform (foreword by Maxine Greene of Teachers College, Columbia University), published by Teachers College Press in 1992. He joined James W. Garrison as co-editor and contributor to a volume of essays entitled The Educational Conversation: Closing the Gap (foreword by Nel Noddings of Stanford University), published by the State University of New York Press in 1995.

He came to Purdue from The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a nationally recognized program Rud helped to establish, where he served as Senior Fellow. Rud also worked at Dartmouth College as an administrator, adjunct faculty member in philosophy, and freshman advisor. Prior to graduate school, he taught humanities and social studies at a special needs high school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Rud is a founding member and former officer of the Association for Philosophy of Education, a former member of the Committee on International Relations of the American Educational Research Association and the Committee on Pre-College Instruction of the American Philosophical Association, and served as a senior associate of the Council for Basic Education. He has served as an officer or on committees of the Philosophy of Education Society.

Rud has consulted for schools on leadership issues, critical thinking, moral education, and school reform, and for organizations as diverse as the National Paideia Center, the Boston University Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, the Department of Special Education at the University of South Florida, and the Liberty Fund Inc. He consults on a new master's program in e-learning, including a course in educational ethics, for Jones International University, the first fully online, accredited university.

Rud is chair of the Campus Advisory Board of the Harmony Institute of St. Cloud, Florida, heading this international team of scholars who are providing specialized advice on the establishment of the Albert Schweitzer Campus at the Institute, within the new, planned community of Harmony, Florida.

A native of the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, Rud lives in West Lafayette, Indiana with his wife Rita, daughter Rachel (Northwestern University Class of 2007), three cats, and a dog.