Dr. Mark Meyers is a senior academic leader with more than two decades of experience across faculty, department, and dean-level roles in higher education. He currently serves as a professor of education at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, where he previously served as Dean of the School of Nursing, Education, and Human Studies from 2020 to 2023. In that role, he directed the development of new academic programs and secured a 10-year, $4.6 million partnership to establish a center for dyslexia education.
Prior to RMU, Dr. Meyers served as Dean of the College of Social Sciences, Health, and Education at Xavier University in Cincinnati from 2007 to 2014, where he led the creation of international academic partnerships across six countries, oversaw the development of more than 30 new programs of study, and generated over $9 million in external grant funding. Before Xavier, he spent five years as Associate Dean of the College of Education at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., having joined Rowan’s faculty as an associate professor of education five years earlier.
Dr. Meyers is the co-author of several widely used education textbooks, including Project-Based Learning: Nurturing Curiosity, Teaching: An Introduction to the Profession, and Curriculum Leadership: Beyond Boilerplate Standards. He has served as editor of the Ohio Journal of Teacher Education, as a board member of the Ohio Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and as a site visitor for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). He is past president of the New Jersey Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.
His teaching spans undergraduate and graduate methodology, curriculum theory, instructional technology, and doctoral-level courses in educational leadership and higher education finance. He designed the doctoral cognate in higher education for Xavier’s leadership studies program and has taught online graduate coursework since 2008.
Dr. Meyers began his career as a social studies teacher at Clearwater Central Catholic High School in Clearwater, Fla. He holds a B.A., M.Ed., and Ph.D. from the University of Florida.