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Robert Mendenhall is an American businessman and academic. He is the former president of the University of Utah and the former president and CEO of the World Education University. He was born on 18 November 1954 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. He is 66 years old. Mendenhall earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Utah in 1976 and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Utah in 1978. He also holds a doctorate in business administration from the University of Utah. Mendenhall began his career as an accountant at the University of Utah in 1976. He then served as the university's vice president for finance and administration from 1989 to 1997. In 1997, he was appointed president of the University of Utah, a position he held until 2004. Mendenhall then served as the president and CEO of the World Education University from 2004 to 2011. He is currently the chairman of the board of directors of the World Education University. Mendenhall is married and has two children. He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
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| Born | 18 November, 1954 |
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Who Is Robert Mendenhall's Wife?
His wife is Kathleen White
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Robert Mendenhall Net Worth
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Mendenhall was a founding Board member of the Presidents' Forum, a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and also served on the NGA/ASTD Commission on Technology & Adult Learning, on IBM’s Education Advisory Council, on the National Forum on 21st Century Skills Education Advisory Board, and on the Technology Working Group for the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Mendenhall is a former member of the Board of the Department of Business and Economic Development for the State of Utah.
Mendenhall received his bachelor's degree in University Studies and a doctorate in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University. On July 15, 2017, Dr. Mendenhall was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa by Western Governors University.
In April 2016, Mendenhall stepped down as president and became WGU's first President Emeritus. In March 2016, WGU's Board of Trustees announced Scott D. Pulsipher as the new president.
In 2016 he was the recipient of the Champions of E-Learning Award - Heavy Lifter Award from Presidents’ Forum.
For his work in leading and developing WGU, Dr. Mendenhall was selected by the Higher Education Policy Institute and Council for Adult and Experiential Learning to receive the 2012 Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award.
On December 5, 2011, Mendenhall was one of several university presidents, chancellors, and higher education representatives invited to the White House by President Obama to discuss the cost of college and improving education. In 2012, Mendenhall testified to the United States Senate Higher Education Committee regarding innovations in college affordability.
In 2010, Mendenhall was honored with the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education for creating educational ideas that work and scaling them up to improve student achievement. Utah Business Magazine named him 2010 CEO of the Year; the U.S. Distance Learning Association's (USDLA) gave him its Award for Outstanding Leadership by an Individual in the Field of Distance Learning. In 2011, Ernst & Young granted Mendenhall the Utah regional award in its Entrepreneur of the Year program in the Technology and Education category.
Mendenhall served on the Commission on the Future of Higher Education at the request of U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. In 2006, the commission issued a report titled "A Test for Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education." The report was critical of many aspects of higher education in the U.S. and offered suggestions on how to improve the system. Commenting in the media, Mendenhall stated: "I don't think it's about blame. [Our] report was more negative than it needs to be about the academy, but not as alarming as it needs to be in shining a light on the challenges in American higher education."
Dr. Mendenhall became president of Western Governors University in 1999, the same year the university enrolled its first students. WGU is a private, non-profit, online university offering competency-based undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business, Teacher Education, Information Technology, and Health Professions, including Nursing. It was founded in 1997 by a group of 19 western governors with the mission to improve the quality and expand access to post-secondary educational opportunities. Under Mendenhall's leadership, WGU grew to a national university with more than 84,000 students and 91,100 graduates.
From 1980 to 1992, he was a founder, president, and CEO (from 1987) of Wicat Systems, Inc., a publicly traded company which was a leader in providing computer-based curriculum, instructional management and testing to schools, and technology-based training to government and industry.
