1. Biography

2. References

David Churchman (born 1938) is a California State University Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Behavioral Science and Professor of Humanities ^[1] recognized for numerous educational innovations.

Biography

Raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, David Churchman completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Michigan and his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before accepting the appointment at California State University, he served as an infantry company commander and regimental adjutant, social worker in California, high school teacher in Morocco and Pennsylvania, research associate at University of Southern California, and program officer at National Science Foundation. He has lived in or traveled to over 100 countries as an educator, researcher, or tourist. He taught in Morocco, received a doctoral fellowship from the U.S. Department of State, has been a Fulbright Scholar in Cyprus, Ukraine ^[2] and at the Nobel Peace Institute in Norway, and a Malone Scholar in Saudi Arabia, and conducted research on zoo visitors in Australia and Singapore. He is married to Altantsetseg Agvandorj, originally from Mongolia, and has one married son.

While teaching in Pennsylvania, he developed an eleventh-grade curriculum that integrated topics across all subjects.^[3][4][5] and devised the evaluation system for National Drug Abuse Training Center. While at USC he was on the team that created the Emmy-winning PBS-TV program, Freestyle, which encouraged young girls to study mathematics and science.^[6]

While at California State University, he founded one of the first graduate degrees in the country in Conflict Management in 1982. Seven years later, he again broke new ground by combining interactive television and the Internet to make the degree accessible worldwide, enabling his department to produce 10% of all degrees awarded by the university with 2% of the faculty budget. In addition, he helped to initiate the California Academy of Mathematics and Science and to design and initiate a degree in Travel and Tourism, and modernized the masters program in gerontology. In 1982 with Millicent Wood-Harris he co-founded Wildlife on Wheels, which presents live wild animal environmental education programs to approximately 100,000 children each year in the Los Angeles basin, did rescue work on oiled seabirds after some three-dozen oil spills including Exxon Valdez, and occasionally provided animals for television and movies.

He was a founding director of Birute Galdikas’ Orangutan Foundation and was the environmental representative on the California Citizens’ Advisory Panel for the Bureau of Land Management. For a dozen years, he wrote a bi-monthly column on theoretical and applied military problems for Fire and Movement under the pseudonym of the Armchair General.^[7][8] He is the author or co-author of over 200 papers, articles, chapters, and books, and of over $6 million in successful grant proposals.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Currently, he is retired but continues to teach on line courses while volunteering for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the local Community Emergency Response Team, and as a member of the Selective Service Board.

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