Biography

Jude Higdon serves as the Chief Information Officer and Director of IT for Bennington College, as well as the Chief Operations Officer at the QSIDE Institute, www.qsideinstitute.org. He holds an Ed.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California, an Ed.M. in Technology in Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a B.S. in African politics from Northwestern University. Before coming to Bennington, Jude worked at the convergence of technology and education at other institutions of higher learning including Minnesota State University, Mankato, the University of Minnesota Colleges of Pharmacy and of Liberal Arts, Northwestern University, the City Colleges of Chicago, Brandeis University, Harvard University, Duke University, and the University of Southern California. He has also developed online learning environments for several major not-for-profit organizations including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Red Cross, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His dissertation research focused on the intersection of goal orientation and feedback. He is an avid anusara yogi and will be happy to bore you with stories about his current favorite arm balance. His current research is in the field of social justice, focusing on criminal justice, equity in higher education, inclusion and representation in the arts and media, environmental and climate justice, and equity in health care education.