David Szatmary
Encyclopedia
David P. Szatmary is an educator, author on various subjects, and an educational entrepreneur
.
degree from Marquette University
and M.A.
and Ph.D.
degrees in American history from Rutgers University
. In 1970-1980, he taught in the History Department at the University of Arizona
as an Assistant Professor. Based upon his academic work, he published Shays' Rebellion
: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection (University of Massachusetts, 1980), which remains in print. He consulted on the Calliope production of the movie Shays' Rebellion, and more recently was featured in a History Channel program about the rebellion and its importance to the formation of the U.S. Constitution.
From 1980 to 1984, Szatmary managed a chain of music stores in Washington and California
, helping to grow the business from three stores in Washington to ten stores on the West Coast
. Combining his history expertise with his experience in the music business, he wrote Rockin’ In Time: A Social History of Rock and Roll
, published by Prentice-Hall, now in its seventh edition. He also wrote A Time to Rock (Schirmer, 1985) and taught classes at the University of Washington
and University of Arizona
on the same topic. In addition, he has authored more than 300 reviews of music and history books for publications such as Library Journal and contributed to multiple editions of All-Music Guide (Scott Foresman, first published in 1992).
In 1984, Szatmary joined the University of Washington (UW), the nationally ranked public research institution based in Seattle, Washington, in the university's continuing and professional education unit, University of Washington Educational Outreach
. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. June 12, 1992. Credited with developing the first certificate program at the UW, he added 60 more certificate programs and helped establish more than 35 degree programs during the next 24 years. Since 1999, Szatmary has served as Vice Provost of UW Educational Outreach, which includes UW Professional and Continuing Education
.
UW Educational Outreach serves as a gateway to the community, granting alternate points of access to the UW for nontraditional students, most of them working adults. Under Szatmary’s leadership, UW Educational Outreach emerged as a national leader in the field of professional education with a series of innovative programs and partnerships. In 2008, UW Educational Outreach served more than 42,000 students with more than 6,000 programs and courses. The organization attracted 81,000 enrollments and posted gross revenues of nearly $70 million.
Szatmary oversees a staff of more than 200 engaged in development and administration of the UW’s evening undergraduate degree completion program; 30 professionally focused master’s and doctoral degrees; and UW summer quarter. He also oversees more than 120 certificate programs in the areas of biotech/biomedical, building construction, business, computing
and information technology
, education
, engineering
, health
/social work
, law
and regulation
, and the nonprofit/public sector
. In addition, UW Educational Outreach administers international
programs, community
partnerships, online learning, conferences and workshops, programs for youth
and K-12
educators, and English language programs (English as a Foreign or Second Language).
and AAU institutions that provide online learning opportunities. He also initiated OpenUW, a series of 12 free, open source online programs available to the public in partnership with the Learning Network, a Pearson
-owned company.
In 2005, Szatmary helped organize Actions, Solutions, Growth: University Partners (ASG). ASG is a partnership of a dozen continuing education leaders at large nonprofit and for-profit universities in North America. The group collaborates on a variety of initiatives, including the development of joint educational programs. Current ASG programs include a certificate program in Biotechnology
Project Management with the University of Washington
and University of California
, San Diego and a certificate program in Decision Making
for Climate Change
jointly created by the University of Washington
, University of California, Irvine
, the University of British Columbia
Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability
and Northwestern University
.
Szatmary has forged partnerships between University of Washington Educational Outreach
and organizations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME), and Pearson/Prentice-Hall Publishing
. Notable corporate partnerships include the UW-Boeing
relationship.
Szatmary has been instrumental in building a partnership with the United Arab Emirates
Academy in Abu Dhabi
. Since February 2007, University of Washington Educational Outreach has provided professional certificate programs in the IBDAA program for young job seekers. This partnership marks the first time the University of Washington has established a base abroad to teach foreign nationals in their home country.
Szatmary has served as the principal investigator for more than $5.1 million in grants, allowing UW Educational Outreach to provide online programs in technology and other subject areas.
Based upon his experience and accomplishments during the last 25 years, Szatmary has written articles and been asked to comment about different aspects of online learning and types of partnership and collaboration models.
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
.
Educator and author
Born in Milwaukee, Szatmary earned a baccalaureateBachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
degree from Marquette University
Marquette University
Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
and M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
and Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
degrees in American history from Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
. In 1970-1980, he taught in the History Department at the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
as an Assistant Professor. Based upon his academic work, he published Shays' Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebellion is named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War....
: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection (University of Massachusetts, 1980), which remains in print. He consulted on the Calliope production of the movie Shays' Rebellion, and more recently was featured in a History Channel program about the rebellion and its importance to the formation of the U.S. Constitution.
From 1980 to 1984, Szatmary managed a chain of music stores in Washington and California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, helping to grow the business from three stores in Washington to ten stores on the West Coast
West Coast of the United States
West Coast or Pacific Coast are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States. The term most often refers to the states of California, Oregon, and Washington. Although not part of the contiguous United States, Alaska and Hawaii do border the Pacific Ocean but can't be included in...
. Combining his history expertise with his experience in the music business, he wrote Rockin’ In Time: A Social History of Rock and Roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
, published by Prentice-Hall, now in its seventh edition. He also wrote A Time to Rock (Schirmer, 1985) and taught classes at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
and University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
on the same topic. In addition, he has authored more than 300 reviews of music and history books for publications such as Library Journal and contributed to multiple editions of All-Music Guide (Scott Foresman, first published in 1992).
In 1984, Szatmary joined the University of Washington (UW), the nationally ranked public research institution based in Seattle, Washington, in the university's continuing and professional education unit, University of Washington Educational Outreach
University of Washington Educational Outreach
| class="wikitable" border="2"The University of Washington Educational Outreach is the continuing education and professional development unit of the University of Washington , in Seattle, Washington....
. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. June 12, 1992. Credited with developing the first certificate program at the UW, he added 60 more certificate programs and helped establish more than 35 degree programs during the next 24 years. Since 1999, Szatmary has served as Vice Provost of UW Educational Outreach, which includes UW Professional and Continuing Education
Continuing education
Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...
.
UW Educational Outreach serves as a gateway to the community, granting alternate points of access to the UW for nontraditional students, most of them working adults. Under Szatmary’s leadership, UW Educational Outreach emerged as a national leader in the field of professional education with a series of innovative programs and partnerships. In 2008, UW Educational Outreach served more than 42,000 students with more than 6,000 programs and courses. The organization attracted 81,000 enrollments and posted gross revenues of nearly $70 million.
Szatmary oversees a staff of more than 200 engaged in development and administration of the UW’s evening undergraduate degree completion program; 30 professionally focused master’s and doctoral degrees; and UW summer quarter. He also oversees more than 120 certificate programs in the areas of biotech/biomedical, building construction, business, computing
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
and information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, health
Health
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...
/social work
Social work
Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...
, law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
and regulation
Regulation
Regulation is administrative legislation that constitutes or constrains rights and allocates responsibilities. It can be distinguished from primary legislation on the one hand and judge-made law on the other...
, and the nonprofit/public sector
Public sector
The public sector, sometimes referred to as the state sector, is a part of the state that deals with either the production, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether national, regional or local/municipal.Examples of public sector activity range...
. In addition, UW Educational Outreach administers international
International
----International mostly means something that involves more than one country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries...
programs, community
Community
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
partnerships, online learning, conferences and workshops, programs for youth
Youth
Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood . Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals could exist at all ages.-Usage:Around the world, the terms "youth",...
and K-12
K-12
K–12 is a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where P–12 is also commonly used...
educators, and English language programs (English as a Foreign or Second Language).
Educational entrepreneur
Szatmary has been an innovative educational entrepreneur by creating partnerships with other educational institutions, corporations and international organizations. In 2003, he started R1edu.org, a consortium of 34 Research I universitiesResearch I university
Research I university was a category previously used by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to indicate those universities that engaged in extensive research activity....
and AAU institutions that provide online learning opportunities. He also initiated OpenUW, a series of 12 free, open source online programs available to the public in partnership with the Learning Network, a Pearson
Pearson PLC
Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...
-owned company.
In 2005, Szatmary helped organize Actions, Solutions, Growth: University Partners (ASG). ASG is a partnership of a dozen continuing education leaders at large nonprofit and for-profit universities in North America. The group collaborates on a variety of initiatives, including the development of joint educational programs. Current ASG programs include a certificate program in Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...
Project Management with the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
and University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, San Diego and a certificate program in Decision Making
Decision making
Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.- Overview :Human performance in decision terms...
for Climate Change
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
jointly created by the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
, University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
, the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability
Centre for Sustainability
The Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability is an educational organization at the University of British Columbia. The Centre’s aim is to bring academic and industry expertise to the wider community by providing sustainability education and training programs for individuals, organizations and...
and Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
.
Szatmary has forged partnerships between University of Washington Educational Outreach
University of Washington Educational Outreach
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and organizations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....
(ASME), and Pearson/Prentice-Hall Publishing
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...
. Notable corporate partnerships include the UW-Boeing
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
relationship.
Szatmary has been instrumental in building a partnership with the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
Academy in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...
. Since February 2007, University of Washington Educational Outreach has provided professional certificate programs in the IBDAA program for young job seekers. This partnership marks the first time the University of Washington has established a base abroad to teach foreign nationals in their home country.
Szatmary has served as the principal investigator for more than $5.1 million in grants, allowing UW Educational Outreach to provide online programs in technology and other subject areas.
Based upon his experience and accomplishments during the last 25 years, Szatmary has written articles and been asked to comment about different aspects of online learning and types of partnership and collaboration models.
See also
- Jackson, Kristin. "The Leading man of London arts tours". The Seattle Times. February 10, 2008.
- King, Marsha. "School's never out for lifelong learners". The Seattle Times. May 15, 2008.
- Muhlstein, Julie. "UW opens city branch, but only if you're over 50". Herald. May 31, 2009.
- Perry, Nick. "Mideast is first stop on UW's overseas teaching program" The Seattle Times. July 21, 2006.
- Pohlig, Colleen. "High-school kids jump-start college". The Seattle Times. July 29, 2002.
- Rivera, Ray."UW to offer free online courses". The Seattle Times. May 28, 2001.
- Sanchez, Roberto. "Boomers Look For Stability At School -- Record Numbers Return To Higher Education". The Seattle Times. July 21, 1997.
- Shubert, Ruth. "Higher education is just a log-on away: UW programs follow national online trend". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. September 27, 1999.
- UW Extension,"Professional & Continuing Education: Summer 2009 Catalogue".
- University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
- University of Washington Educational OutreachUniversity of Washington Educational Outreach| class="wikitable" border="2"The University of Washington Educational Outreach is the continuing education and professional development unit of the University of Washington , in Seattle, Washington....
- University of Washington,"UW Educational Outreach: Year in Review 2007-08".