{"id":19,"date":"2013-05-16T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T22:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2013-05-26T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T03:00:22","slug":"education-career","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Pedersen&#8217;s educational experiences include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An A.A. degree from Grand View Junior College in 1956<\/li>\n<li>A B.A. in 1958 from the University of Minnesota in History and Philosophy<\/li>\n<li>An M.A. in 1959 in American Studies from the University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>An M.Th. from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago in 1962<\/li>\n<li>An M.S. in Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1966<\/li>\n<li>A Ph.D. in Asian Studies (including examining fields of Counseling, Cultural History, Comparative Religion, and Political Theory) at Claremont Graduate School in 1968<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He has had substantial career experience in a variety of international settings including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teaching at an Indonesian university in Medan, Sumatra (1962-1965)<\/li>\n<li>Teaching in the University of Malaya and doing research in Malaysia (1969-1971)<\/li>\n<li>Full time study of Mandarin in Taiwan (1999-2000)<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Student Advisor\/Counselor in the International Student Advisor&#8217;s Office of the University of Minnesota (1971-1978)<\/li>\n<li>External Examiner at three universities in Malaysia<\/li>\n<li>Numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe<\/li>\n<li>A Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan University (1999-2000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Pedersen&#8217;s educational experiences include An A.A. degree from Grand View Junior College in 1956 A B.A. in 1958 from the University of Minnesota in History and Philosophy An M.A. in 1959 in American Studies from the University of Minnesota &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=19\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}