Faculty profile: Craig A. Campbell
Name: Craig A. Campbell
Title: Assistant Teaching Professor of Education (Lifelong Learning and Adult Education)
Department: Learning and Performance Systems
Phone: 814-863-0614
Email: czc270@psu.edu
Office address: 307 Keller Building
Directory entry: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-craig-campbell
Campbell joined the faculty in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education in fall 2016. His academic training includes a doctorate in adult and higher education from Northern Illinois University and graduate work in cross-cultural studies with Indigenous knowledge systems emphasis from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Campbell’s work experiences include the following positions: rural mail carrier; grade six to 12 teacher in Illinois and Wisconsin; mathematics instructor at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College (Tribal College in Northern Wisconsin); Tribal College Coordinator for American Distance Education Consortium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; assistant professor of adult education at SUNY Buffalo State; assistant professor of lifelong learning (with Indigenous focus) at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and coordinator of adult and higher education master's and doctoral programs at Oregon State University.
Campbell’s research interests include nonformal and informal learning, international adult education, folk schools, popular education, university and cooperative extension, distance education, qualitative research methodologies, the Tribal College Movement and Indigenous knowledge systems. The commonalities among these seemingly disparate areas are rural place-based knowledges and access to education. Campbell enjoys expanding connections and collaborations here at Penn State and beyond.