Crossing the River Jordan Award

Previous Winners

Ronald A. Wolk
Consultant, Education and Media Relations

Ronald A. Wolk is chairman of the board of Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), a nonprofit organization founded in 1958. He is also the founding editor and publisher of Education Week (founded in 1981), Teacher Magazine (founded in 1989), and Quality Counts, all published by EPE. At EPE, Mr. Wolk conducted a foundation-sponsored survey of information needs in higher education, which led to the founding of the Chronicle of Higher Education in November 1966.

At Brown University, he had a 10-year tenure (1969–79) as vice president. He was special assistant to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and assistant director of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education. From 1962 to 1968, Mr. Wolk served Milton S. Eisenhower as a speechwriter and proposal writer. From 1959 to 1962, he was editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine.

Mr. Wolk holds a bachelor of arts from Westminster College, a master of arts from Syracuse University, a master of arts Ad. Eudem from Brown University, and a doctor of humane letters from Lebanon Valley College.