José Antonio Bowen, Alternative Bios
Business Bio
José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami and SMU, and as presidentof a top ten USN&WR most innovative college until 2019. He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, leadership and inclusion consulting and training for Toyota, AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer and other Fortune 500 companies. Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities) who honored him as a “Distinguished Alumni Scholar” in 2010. His research includes over 100 scholarly articles and books, including Teaching Naked: HowMoving Technology out of your College Classroom will Improve Student Learning (winner of the NessAward for Best Book on Higher Education in 2012) and the new Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021, Johns Hopkins UniversityPress). Bowen has long been a pioneer in teaching and technology as profiled in The New York Times,Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, PBS News Hour, and NPR, and was awarded the ErnestL. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education) in 2018. He has presented hundreds of keynotes and workshops in 46 states and 17 countries around the world. He also worked as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, Liberace, and Jerry Garcia, and was nominated for thePulitzer Prize in Music. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Association of Colleges andUniversities and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) in England. For more watch his SxSW or TED talks.
Longer Academic Bio (555 words)
José Antonio Bowen began his teaching career at Stanford University in 1982 as the Director of JazzEnsembles. In 1994, he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of RecordedMusic (C.H.A.R.M.) at the University of Southampton, England. He was appointed the first holder of theendowed Caestecker Chair of Music at Georgetown University (1999) where he created and directed theProgram (now Department) in Performing Arts. He was Dean of Fine Arts at Miami University, before moving toSMU in Dallas in 2006 to become Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts and Algur H. Meadows Chair for 8 years. He was then president of Goucher College until 2019 and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Association of American of Colleges and Universities and does innovation, pedagogy and D&I work in both higher education and for Fortune 500 companies.
Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, Humanities and Musicology) and has written over 100 scholarly articles in music in top journals and in books from Oxford, Cambridge andPrinceton university presses. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003) and received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. Hecontributed to Discover Jazz (Pearson, 2011) and is an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology(2011). He has a TED talk on Beethoven as Bill Gates and Stanford honored him as a Distinguished AlumniScholar in 2010.
Bowen began his career as a jazz performer and has appeared on five continents and with Stan Getz, DizzyGillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions, conducting andplaying are featured on numerous recordings and include a symphony (which was nominated for the PulitzerPrize in Music in 1985) and music for Hubert Laws, Jerry Garcia and many others. His Jewish music(published by Transcontinental Music) is also widely performed and includes a Jazz Shabbat Service (withhundreds of performances around the world).
His books on teaching include Teaching Naked (2012) winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on HigherEducation from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the sequel, Teaching NakedTechniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes with G. Edward Watson (2017) and the recent and the new Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021, Johns Hopkins University Press). For more, see his website teachingnaked.com or his education TED talks.
His focus on a better classroom experience led to innovations as an educational leader. He removed podiums and fixed computers from classrooms long before others were thinking of BYOD. He led Goucher College to the nation’s first video-application, a new process-focused streamlined general education curriculum with a focus on a new 3Rs of Relationships, Resilience and Reflection, and a revitalization of the campus. Goucher was recognized as a top 10 college for innovation under his leadership.
After twenty years of innovation educational leadership, he received the Ernest L. Boyer Award (forsignificant contributions to American higher education) from the New American Colleges and Universities in January 2018. He is a trustee of DePauw University, a Founding Board Member of the National RecordingPreservation Board for the Library of Congress and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England.
SHORTER BIO (205 words)
José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College. Bowen has worked as a musician with Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, and many others and his symphonywas nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1985). Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford and has writtenover 100 scholarly articles and books, including the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), Teaching Naked (2012 and the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), Teaching Naked Techniques withG. Edward Watson (2017) and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). Bowen has appeared in The New York Times,Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and has three TED talks. Stanford honored him as a Distinguished AlumniScholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences 46 states and 17 countries around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significantcontributions to American higher education). He is a senior fellow for the American Association of Collegesand Universities.
SHORTEST Less Academic (141 words)
José Antonio Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown, was Dean at Miami andSouthern Methodist University and President of Goucher College. He has written over 100 scholarly articles andhas appeared as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and others. He is the author of ),Teaching Naked(2012, the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021). Stanford honored him as aDistinguished Alumni Scholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences 46 states and 17 countries around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. BoyerAward (for significant contributions to American higher education) and he is now a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities.