Jason Wingard
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Jason Wingard

American academic and executive (born 1971)

Jason Wingard (born December 13, 1971) is an American academic and executive. He served as the twelfth president of Temple University.2

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Born Dec 13, 1971.1

About

Before that, he served in executive leadership roles at Columbia University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University, as well as corporate workforce development at Goldman Sachs.

He is the author of four books on the future of work and talent development and a frequent contributor to mainstream media outlets writing about higher education, diversity, leadership and career readiness.

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education3
  • Date not recordedWest Chester Henderson High School3
  • Date not recordedStanford University3
  • Date not recordedEmory University3
  • Date not recordedHarvard Graduate School of Education3

Jason Wingard was born on December 13, 1971, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania at age four. His father was a public school principal and superintendent who attended Temple University for graduate school, and his mother worked in human resources.

Wingard is a graduate of Henderson High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he was a three-varsity sport athlete in basketball, football, and track and field. He was the 1990 high school Pennsylvania state champion in the 300m intermediate hurdles and was later inducted into the Henderson High School Wall of Fame.

Wingard received an athletic scholarship from Stanford University for football and track and field. A football wide receiver, tight end, and outside linebacker, he was a member of the 1992 Pac-10 Co-Champion team (now referred to as the Pac-12 Conference). In track, he competed for Stanford in the 400m hurdles and was named Pac-10 Conference Academic All-American Honorable Mention in 1992.

Wingard holds a Bachelor of Arts in sociology with honors from Stanford University, a Master of Arts in education from Emory University, a Master of Education in technology in education from Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in education, culture, and society from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Academic

He previously served as dean of Columbia University's School of Professional Studies, as well as vice dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he led the Aresty Institute of Executive Education. Before that, he was executive director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute (renamed the Stanford Educational Leadership Initiative) at Stanford University.

Wingard has taught leadership development courses at Columbia, Stanford and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Wingard has held executive education and leadership training with organizations including Columbia Athletics and LinKS@Wharton. In Columbia's fall semester of 2015, Wingard launched the Talks@Columbia thought leadership series. In 2016, he led a new "Global Human Capital Trends" course that was developed in partnership with Deloitte. Wingard introduced several access initiatives to offer Columbia's education to underserved populations, including the Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative and the Columbia HBCU Fellowship Initiative.

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Career

Occupation: sociologist, university teacher.6

President of Temple

Wingard was appointed 12th president of Temple University in July 2021, and its first African American president since its founding in 1884. Wingard's tenure was marred by a number of controversies. In January 2023, the graduate student workers' union at Temple went on strike, following a year of stalled negotiations for a labor contract. The strike ended in mid-March. In the months prior to his resignation, there was also a rise in crime and violence on and near the university's campus, which was highlighted by the deadly shooting of a Temple University police officer.

After a tumultuous tenure of less than two years, he submitted his resignation to the university's board of trustees, effective March 31, 2023. Shortly before his resignation, the university's board of trustees had announced increased oversight of the university. The university's faculty had also planned a no confidence vote.

Corporate

Wingard served as the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for the strategy and implementation of learning solutions for the firm's global workforce. Since 2004, Wingard has served as president and CEO of The Education Board, Inc., a boutique management consulting firm and was senior vice president at ePals, Inc., a provider of school-safe collaborative learning products.

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Board and leadership positions

Wingard is a co-founder and board director of The Education Board Foundation, which provides financial assistance to disadvantaged populations, and arts, education, advocacy, and public service organizations that support those populations.

He is co-founder and board chair of the Zoeza Institute, which provides mentoring support, advisory services, and transition programming for foster care youth in Atlanta, GA, New York, NY, and Philadelphia, PA. He is also co-founder of the Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative. He is a member of the board of directors of Kroll, a risk consulting company. He also currently serves on the board of the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York as well as the board of JUST Capital, an independent nonprofit that tracks, analyzes, and engages with large corporations and their investors on how they perform on the public's priorities. He previously served on the board of directors of Tides, a philanthropic partner and nonprofit accelerator dedicated to building a world of shared prosperity and social justice.

He sits on the membership committee of CEO Connection, served as a director-at-large on the University Professional and Continuing Education Association's Board of Directors, and was an Affiliated Faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Sports Business Initiative.

Wingard was a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute. He also previously served on the boards for the National Center for Fathering, United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia, White Williams Scholars (now Philadelphia Futures), and served on the Peer Review Council of the Organization Development Journal.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States7

Wingard and his wife have five children.

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