Jerome C. Weber, Ph.D.
Dr. Weber is Regents' Professor of Human Relations and Education and
typically teaches the Research Methods course in Human Relations and
Administration of Higher Education in the College of Education. Dr.
Weber has been a faculty member at The University of Oklahoma for 41
years, having originally taken a position in Health and Sport Sciences
in which he taught courses such as Physiology of Exercise and
Kinesiology. Following that, he spent more than 20 years in central
university administration as Dean of the University College and Vice
Provost for Instruction in addition to four years as Chair of the
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He is a native
New Yorker, and earned his bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College of the
City University of New York (1960), before leaving New York to pursue
his M.A. (1961) and Ph.D.(1966) at Michigan State University .
In addition to his teaching in the areas of Health and Sport
Sciences, Dr. Weber has taught Administration of Adult and Higher
Education, Issues/Decision-Making in Adult and Higher Education,
Seminar in Intercollegiate Athletics, and Seminar in Contemporary
Issues in Adult and Higher Education. Over the years he has
taught for Health and Sport Sciences, Education, Zoology and Social
Work. Dr. Weber's primary scholarly interests at this time are
related to university administration and intercollegiate athletics. My
most recent work will be published this fall in College and University
and is titled “Why Can't Universities Be More Like
Business?”