Ronald K. Pendleton, Ph.D.
http://homepage.mac.com/rpen/
rpen@mac.com
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Dr. Pendleton is a professor of education and Career and Technical Teacher Education program coordinator and web master in the College of Education at California State University, San Bernardino, where he has served since 1981. He works primarily with mature adults who have been successful in business and industry and want to become teachers. He has developed extensive interactive web-based materials and online electronic textbooks for both traditional and distance learning educational courses. He has published numerous articles and presented a variety of workshops on competency-based instruction. He is an advocate of quality education through reduction of class size and the intelligent use of technology to promote and facilitate more and better interpersonal interaction in educational settings. He advocates helping students learn how to make productive choices and assume responsibility for their own lives.
He has been active in the local community, serving as president of the Inland Empire Symphony League, secretary of the Inland Empire Symphony Board of Directors, President of the San Bernardino North Rotary Club and a reserve deputy sheriff for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. He is the founding trustee for the CSUSB Gamma Nu chapter of Epsilon Pi Tau (international honorary for professions in technology) and has served on a wide variety of community and university organizational and advisory committees.
His formal education includes a Ph.D. degree in Education/Technology from Arizona State University at Tempe; an M.A. degree in Industrial Arts from California State University at Long Beach; a B.A. degree in Psychology from Humboldt State College in Arcata, California; and an A.A. degree in Education from El Camino Community College in Torrance, California. In addition he is a graduate of the USAF Officer Training School, the USAF Pilot Training School and all three levels the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Reserve Law Enforcement Training Academy.
Before completing his doctoral degree he worked as a research associate at Arizona State University; an industrial arts teacher at The American School in Stavanger, Norway; manager and chief pilot for Santa Fe Air Service in Hooper Bay, Alaska; a commercial pilot for Continental Air Service in Vientiane, Laos; a combat pilot and forward air controller for the United States Air Force in Viet Nam; a social worker for the Humboldt County Welfare Department in Eureka, California; and a technical illustrator for North American Aviation in Downey, California.
Dr. Pendleton practices Aikido and lives with his wife, an acclaimed artist, in Riverside, California. They enjoy outdoor activities, reading, art, music, dining out, travel, social gatherings, web surfing and taking care of their horses, goats, dogs and cats.
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