Stephen J. Wright is the Director of Distance Education Programs, responsible for the administration of Penn State's Distance Education program. Steve has been a practitioner in the filed of collegiate distance education since 1984 and has been at Penn State in a variety of academic and administrative positions since 1972.

Dr. Wright earned both his masters and doctoral degrees in the department of history at Penn State where he holds the rank of affiliate assistant professor of history. Steve is a specialist in Latin American history and politics with his research interests in modern Cuban history. He also has a part-time teaching appointment in the history department at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Distance Education and is co-editor with Barbara Watkins of an anthology entitled: The Foundations of American Distance Education: 100 Years of Collegiate Correspondence Study. Steve is a past chair of the Division of Independent Study of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Collegiate Independent Study (AACIS). Dr. Wright is a member of the Penn State team consisting of faculty, administrators and technical specialists who are creating the Penn State World Campus.

29 October 1997

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