Dennis Cheek

Senior Fellow
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Dennis Cheek is a Senior Fellow and former Vice President of Education at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.  The foundation was recognized for its innovative education work in youth entrepreneurship, the future of learning, and science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Dennis is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Dr. Cheek is a member of the teaching faculty for the midcareer doctoral program in educational leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a Vice President at the John Templeton Foundation, an administrator for 13 years in the state education departments of NY and RI, a senior consultant to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a middle school and high school science and social studies teacher and district curriculum developer, and served on various university faculties.  He has authored, edited or contributed to over 770 publications and multimedia products and currently serves on the editorial or manuscript review boards of the International Journal of Technology and Design Education, Journal of Science Education and Technology, Odyssey, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, The Science Teacher, and Philosophy of Science.  He earned bachelor degrees in history, secondary education, and biology; a master's in history, a Ph.D. in curriculum & instruction/science education from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Durham.