Katrina S.
Rogers, Ph.D.
Katrina S. Rogers, Ph.D., delivers the Keynote Speech at ITLC 2024 in Sienna, Italy.
Katrina S. Rogers, Ph.D.
Katrina S. Rogers, Ph.D.
Biography
Katrina S. Rogers, Ph.D., has served the international non-governmental and educational sectors in many roles, including as executive, board member, and teacher. She led the European campus for Thunderbird School of Global Management in Geneva, Switzerland for a decade, working with international organizations such as the Red Cross, World Trade Organization, United Nations Development Program, and the European Union. She has doctorates in political science and history from Northern Arizona University. She also earned a Master of Arts in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and a BA in history at Albertus Magnus College. She has taught and lectured in several countries on a diverse range of topics, including democratic engagement in higher education, global environmental politics, and sustainability. Rogers currently serves on the Boards of the Northern Arizona University Educational Education and the Toda Institute for Global Policy & Peace Research and is a past Board member of Prescott College. She was also a Presidential postdoctoral fellowship with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and was a Fulbright scholar to Germany.
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Accomplishments
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (professional)
(2010) Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Bundeskanzler (German Presidential) Scholar (professional)
(2010) Awarded by the University of Konstantz, Germany
Fulbright Scholar, Tubingen, Germany (professional)
(2010) Conferred by the Fulbright Association
Outstanding Honors Professor (professional)
(1992) Awarded by Northern Arizona University
Education
Northern Arizona University: PhD, Political Science 1992
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: MA, History 1990
Albertus Magnus College: BA, History 1985
Affiliations
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation : Coordinator of Presidential Scholars
- European Union Studies Association : Member
- European Peace Research Association : Member
- Fulbright Association : Member
- International Peace Research Association : Member
- International Studies Association : Member
Media Appearances
Fielding Graduate Community: Deeply Rooted in Our Community
Hope Ranch Living Magazine online
2023-05-31
Dr. Katrina Rogers and I first met in a professional setting, and while our conversation was primarily focused on all things professional, there was a strong undercurrent of kindness and authenticity in everything she spoke about. Over the years, I have grown to admire and deeply respect her dedication to social and environmental change and the meaningful and effective ways in which she engages with our community and beyond as President of Fielding Graduate University.
Make Saving the Planet Simple This Earth Day
Common Dreams online
2023-04-22
Fielding Graduate University acts to secure the sustainability of our biodiverse ecosystem, health equity, society, and culture. Fielding was founded in Santa Barbara 49 years ago upon the idea that graduate education can be a vehicle for positive social change that leads to social and ecological justice. In 2023, the President’s Sustainability Advisory Council designated this year as our Fielding Ecological and Social Justice Service Year.
A New Kind of Education for Urban Leaders in America
The EvoLLLution online
2023-02-07
(2023) Urban communities large and small face more new and complex challenges as well as more opportunities than ever before. For example, consider racism, violence, climate change, population mobility enhanced by faster and more economical transportation options and sophisticated technologies that enhance quicker transmission of larger bodies of information, much of which includes disinformation and is leading to greater cultural divisiveness along political, racial and economic lines.
A Letter From the President | Fielding Joins Rowan Global, Inc.
Fielding Graduate University’s FOCUS Magazine print
2023-01-06
Fielding Graduate University’s Focus Magazine January 2023, “Partnerships.”
Katrina Rogers: Oil Spill’s Lessons for Education System
Noozhawk online
2015-05-21
The oil spill that occurred 20 miles north of Santa Barbara on Tuesday raises once again the specter of an increasingly polluted world. With all of us so dependent on fossil fuels, there is no one to blame. Our economy is predicated on infinite growth: Growth requires energy. Indeed, the history of modern society is the history of oil. The more we take from the planet, the more consequences there are. Sadly, these consequences are felt not just by human beings, but are borne by other species as well…
Bringing Faculty Onboard With Competency-Based Learning: Five Considerations for the Professoriate
The EvoLLLution online
2015-04-02
By now, the surging interest in competency-based learning (CBL) has been clearly documented by publications across the postsecondary industry—from the pages of Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education to this very newspaper. The recent call for experimental sites by the Department of Education is another indication that competency-based learning is likely to be a way of developing academic curricula that endures in the coming decades. A confluence of concerns for affordability, accessibility and relevance, both for employment and for an educated populace, are offering challenges to current models of higher education: challenges in which CBL offers fruitful dialogue for the academy…
Fielding goes to Washington
Pacific Coast BusinessTime online
(September, 2014) “This office will serve as an East Coast brand of the university for hosting academic activities and public events. Washington, D.C., is an excellent location for Fielding given our national reach,” Fielding President Katrina Rogers said in a statement…
Fielding Graduate University Offers New Doctoral Program in Infant and Early Childhood Development
University Herald online
(August, 2014) “We are so pleased to partner with ICDL in acquiring this high quality, nationally recognized and unique graduate program. Their areas of expertise are profound in the world of infant and childhood development,” Katrina Rogers, president of Fielding Graduate University, said in a statement. “This new degree program will add to our array of offerings as we expand our footprint to serve this special population.”…
An Interview With Katrina Rogers, Ph.D., President Fielding Graduate University
NonprofitKinect online
(2014) Over the years, I have had the pleasure of serving in the nonprofit sector as staff member, executive leader, volunteer, and board member. The strongest organizations, in my view, invest in leadership development, understand the importance of reflection, and seek to measure collective impact…
Event Appearances
Ecological Security and Multinational Corporations
(1999) Environmental Change and Security Program Washington, D.C.
Articles
Coaching to Heal the Heart and the Planet. Co-authored with Leni Wildflower. Transformational Coaching: An Evidence-Based Guide. Pp. 158-173. Ed. Kymberly Odessky and Astrid Eberhardt Emond. Fielding University Press, 2024, in press. (attached)
Transforming the Climate Conversation this Earth Day. Common Dreams. April 22, 2024.
Opinion | Transforming the Climate Conversation This Earth Day | Common Dreams
Inclusive Leadership and Power. Co-authored with Valerie B. Davis. Inclusive Leadership: Equity and Belonging in our Communities. International Leadership Association, Building Leadership Bridges Series, 2023. (attached)
The Climate Crisis Demands Collective and Individual Leadership and Responsibility. Common Dreams. August 23, 2023. Opinion | The Climate Crisis Demands Collective and Individual Leadership and Responsibility | Common Dreams
Securing Success in an Increasingly Competitive Environment: New Structural Arrangements in Higher Education. Co-authored with Michael B. Goldstein and Carlos Santiago. Higher Education in a Changing World. Series Ed., Orlando Taylor, Nicole Retland, and Katherine McGraw. Fielding University Press, 2023, 98-118.
A New Kind of Education for Urban Leaders in America. EvoLLLution. February 7, 2023.
https://evolllution.com/revenue-streams/opportunities_challenges/a-new-kind-of-education-for-urban-leaders-in-america
The Role of Online Learning in the Democratization of Higher Education. Handbook on Online Learning and Teaching. Series Ed., Kjell Rudestam and Judith Schoenholtz-Read. Fielding University Press, 2021.
Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) choices: A case study of Deckers Outdoor Corporation. Leadership for Sustainability. Series Ed., Jean-Pierre Isbouts. Fielding University Press, 2021.
Shared Leadership: How the Board-Chair Relationship Facilitates Organizational Change, Co-authored with Gary Wagenheim. Trusteeship Magazine. Volume 28, Number 2, March/April 2020. https://agb.org/trusteeship-article/shared-leadership-how-the-board-chair-relationship-facilitates-organizational-change/
Our human-centeredness is killing us: A case for indigenizing diversity education. Co-authored with David Willis, Henry Fowler, and Four Arrows. In Towards Critical Environmental Education: Where are we now? Current and Future Perspectives. Series Ed. Shirley Steinberg. Eds. Aristotelis S. Gkiolmas & Constantine S. Skordoulis, New York: Springer Publishing Co, 2020. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-50609-4_7
The Fielding Scholar-Practitioner. Co-edited with Monique L. Snowden. Fielding University Press, 2019.
College and University Presidents Serving Democracy (An interview). Higher Education Exchange (2019): 59-67.
Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education: Reclaiming our Civic Purpose. Co-edited with William V. Flores. Lexington Books, June 2019.
Curricular innovation for sustainability. Encyclopedia for Sustainability in Higher Education, Ed. Walter Leal Filho, New York: Springer, 2019. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_9
Teaching global environmental politics. In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.307, 2019.
Retaining adult learners: What academic leaders and faculty need to know. Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners, February 2018, Vol. 20, Iss. 5, pp. 6-7, DOI 10.1002/nsr. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/nsr.30318?msockid=25a8a36a26e76f133050b7dc27e36e55
Increasing equity and access through competency-based education: What do we know? Diverse, September 14, 2016. https://www.diverseeducation.com/students/article/15099085/increasing-equity-and-access-through-competency-based-education-what-do-we-know
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