Christopher Hart Jones, Ed.D. is Chairman of the Education Department and Director of Teacher Education. He received his bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College in literature, a Master’s Degree in curriculum and instruction from Temple University, and his doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Dr. Jones began his career as a high school English teacher in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1969. After gaining his M.A. and Ed.D. and his training as a teacher of the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation program, he joined the faculty of Maharishi University of Management in 1979. On the faculty of the University he has served as Academic Dean and Director of Evaluation before becoming Chair of the Department in 1992.

Dr. Jones’s areas of research and publication have been in the fields of English education, curriculum development and educational assessment. He teaches courses in general teaching methods, secondary methods, and English methods.

“In the birthday card I gave to one of my sons, without giving it a lot of thought, I wrote, 'and together we will create a better world.' Reflecting afterward, I realized that this is the way I feel about the students in my university courses too. We can learn effective methods of teaching, classroom management techniques, ways of structuring interdisciplinary units of study — all the things I teach — but, most importantly, through all of these things we can learn to create a better world. Teaching requires great organizing ability, patience, clarity of understanding, dedication to the growth of young people, but most of all it requires a vision of a better world and the passion to pursue that vision tirelessly.”