Young, Jon

Jon Morgan Young
Office: 
Phone: 910-627-6817
Email: jyoung@uncfsu.edu

 

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., Florida State University, Humanities with concentration in Religion*
  • M.A., Emory University, Religion*
  • B.A. with high honors, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Double Major: Religious Studies and Philosophy

*Include 18+ graduate credits in philosophy

EXPERIENCE:

Fayetteville State University (FSU), 1981 – 2020 (Part-time Online Instructor, 2022 - )

Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff, 2018-2019

Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 2008-2017 (Interim, 2008-2009)

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (Selected):

  • Member of Steering Committee and Lead University for University of North Carolina Alliance for Collaborative Education (UNC-ACE), a group of five institutions that will share online courses to facilitate degree attainment by adult learners with university credit but no degree, August 2017.
  • Technical expert for UNC Task Force on Enrollment Growth Funding Model. – June 2017, appointed by UNC President Margaret Spellings
  • Helped develop UNC System Degree Attainment Plan, October-November 2016
  • Member of UNC System Task Force on Online Education, September – December 2016, appointed by UNC President Margaret Spellings

GRANTS:

  • American Council of Education, Innovation Award for “FSU’s Continuous Improvement Report,” $10,000.
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Institutional Partner Grant, $1.2 million, four-years, 2015.
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation program development grant, $75,000, 2014

    PUBLICATIONS: (Selected)

    • “Pragmatism and Faith: A University Administrator’s Reading of Reinhold Niebuhr,” (under consideration for publication), currently available in FSU Faculty Commons: https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/govt_hist_wp/18/
    • “The $10,000 Degree Program and Growth of Online Education at Fayetteville State University,” Evollution, online publication, Nobember 6,2018.
    • “Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History: A Case Study in Theology and Politics;” Thinking About Religion (Online Journal), 10(1), (2012) 13. http://organizations.uncfsu.edu/ncrsa/journal/v10/

    PRESENTATIONS (Professional Organizations and Selected Community Presentations)

    • “Original Sin, Democracy, and Truth (Or Why This Retired Professor Continues to Teach Critical Thinking),” Presented at North Carolina Religious Studies Association, October 29, 2022.
    • “Developing a Culture of Continuous Improvement to Support Student Success,” Behind the Sites webinar for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Frontier Set institutions, June 15, 2017.
    • Panelist, “Institutional Uses of the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP),” Lumina Foundation, October 2014.
    • "Meaning and Mystery in Reinhold Niebuhr's Theology," North Carolina Religious Studies Association, Wilmington, North Carolina. (November 3, 2012).
    • "FSU's Continuous Improvement Report," American Association of State Colleges and Universities, San Francisco, California. (July 29, 2012). (with Marion Gillis-Olion) "Christian Faith and Politics in the Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr," NCRSA, Asheville, NC. (October 15, 2010).