William [Bill] Gaudelli, Ed.D. is Senior Vice Provost for Education and Learning Assessment and Dean-on-Assignment, having previously served as Dean of the College of Education at Lehigh University [PA]. Gaudelli’s career spans over 35 years as a classroom teacher, researcher, professor, and academic administrator. A prominent international scholar, his research areas focus on global citizenship education and teacher education and development.
Dr. Gaudelli most recently served as the Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities, at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to his department chair role, he was both a faculty member and program director of the social studies program. Before joining Columbia in 2006, Dr. Gaudelli held the positions of associate and assistant professor and program supervisor at the University of Central Florida.
He has published over 85 scholarly pieces and three books, recently completing a fourth book entitled Pedagogy of the Global Event (2023). He is currently developing a Palgrave Handbook on Global Citizenship Education (anticipated 2026) in collaboration with Ricardo Römhild. His research in global citizenship education and teacher development is widely read among scholars and has garnered over 2100 citations on Google Scholar and ranked in the top 2% of Curriculum and Teaching scholars by ScholarGPS. In a recent book, Global Citizenship Education: Everyday Transcendence, he offers an analysis of global citizenship education in various global locales. He worked with UNESCO to author a report Teachers have their say (2021).
Dr. Gaudelli is a frequent keynoter at international conferences and guest lecturer at various universities. Over the past decade, Dr. Gaudelli has given over 85 invited keynotes and talks, in China, Italy, Israel, Thailand, Japan, India, Poland, Hong Kong, Germany and South Korea. He has participated in panel discussions and conferences with UNESCO, UNAI, UNAOC, and WFUNA and a wide-range of professional organizations.
He co-founded the Global Competence Certificate (GCC) program in partnership with World Savvy and Asia Society, two leading global education non-profits. The GCC is built in an online environment that promotes high-touch interactions between faculty and students while leveraging digital technologies to enhance participant experience. Dr. Gaudelli was also elected to the South Orange-Maplewood School Board (NJ) in 2011 where he served for over three years, part of the time serving as board vice-president.
Dr. Gaudelli completed his master’s degree in 1995 and his doctoral degree in 2000 at Rutgers University – Graduate School of Education in social studies education. He was named a Rutgers University 250th Revolutionary Scholar in 2016. He taught social studies in the Hunterdon Central Regional High School for ten years prior to moving into higher education. He resides with his family in Bethlehem, PA.
