Leonard Beckum

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Biography

Dr. Beckum is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology at the Palo Alto University and Stanford University. He devotes fifty percent time to the PhD program at the Pacific Graduate School for Psychology and fifty percent time to the PsyD program at the Stanford Medical Behavioral Science Center. For the last seven years Dr. Beckum was the Director of WestEd's Center for Educational Equity and Director of the Region IX Equity Assistance Center. His professional experience includes: Associate Laboratory Director and Principal Investigator at Far West Laboratory for Research and Development; Dean of the School of Education, City College, the City University of New York; Vice President and Vice Provost and Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University.

Dr. Beckum's skill areas include: Cultural Competency professional development training, Research on Embedding Character traits in the regular school curriculum, program planning and evaluation, educational equity technical assistance and planning, community involvement, conflict management and mediation, teacher training and school staff development, early childhood development, and policy analysis. He has also been a vocational/technical high school teacher, a criminal justice instructor, a community organizer, a San Francisco Police Officer and an evaluator and technical assistance provider for the 21st Century Community Centers Program.