{"id":1,"name":"peteradmin","url":"","description":"ABOUT PETER M. ROJCEWICZ, PhD\r\n\r\nPeter M. Rojcewicz, PhD is an executive leadership consultant, higher education administrator and teacher, folklorist, poet, noetic literacy theorist, and scholar. He has researched international stories, beliefs, and manifestations of the mythic imagination. Trained in folklore and folk life, English and American Literature, and Jungian depth psychology, he is a recognized authority on archetypal images and symbols found in art, religion, dreams, and mass media. He has taught global humanities, fairy tales, myths, folk and popular belief systems, and arts education.\r\n\r\nPeter served as Provost and Accreditation Liaison Officer, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. He is also former Chief Academic Officer University of the West. He served as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Antioch University Seattle and Dean of the School of Holistic Studies, John F. Kennedy University, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts at The Juilliard School. He received his doctoral degree in Folklore & Folk Life from the University of Pennsylvania where he earned the Dean\u2019s Award for Distinguished Teaching. \r\n\r\nHe has published scholarly articles on supernatural beliefs and related anomalous experiences based on interviews and field study. His folklore scholarship on the enigmatic Men in Black phenomenon is highly sighted in the social science literature. His folklore scholarship has been recognized by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama who invited him to speak at a private conference held in his residence in Dharamsala, India. \r\n\r\nA frequent speaker on arts education and noetic extra-rational learning, Peter has lectured on the role of the imagination and poetic knowing in higher education at the Royal Society of Arts, London, and Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, and The Juilliard School.\r\n\r\nA long time member of the Columbia University Seminar on Innovation in Education, he has published and lectured on holistic approaches to education, focusing on multiple learning styles that expand the notion of intellect to include judgment of the senses through the arts and humanities that nurture body\/mind\/spirit. integrity. \r\n\r\nA recipient of the Worcester Poetry Prize and the Allen Ginsberg Prize: Honorable Mention, his poetry has appeared in literary journals and magazines, including Knock, Rattapallax, Tendril, Worcester Review, Paterson Literary Review, Penn Review, and Gargoyle.\r\n \u00a0","link":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/?author=1","slug":"peteradmin","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/207cf1ac039fed7fec826dec3c88785f52c260b24ba2c6c5cd9474d40187ceec?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/207cf1ac039fed7fec826dec3c88785f52c260b24ba2c6c5cd9474d40187ceec?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/207cf1ac039fed7fec826dec3c88785f52c260b24ba2c6c5cd9474d40187ceec?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}