José Antonio Bowen
Educator and Author
José Antonio Bowen has led innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami and Southern Methodist universities, and as president of Goucher College. He is a senior fellow at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, a Trustee of DePauw University, a Founding Board Member of the National Recording Preservation Board for the Library of Congress, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England. He runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., doing innovation, pedagogy and diversity & inclusion consulting and training in both higher education and for Fortune 100 companies, including AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, Toyota and Walmart.
Bowen has long been a pioneer in education, classroom design and technology, featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsweek, PBS News Hour and on NPR. He was given a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990, and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences in 46 states and 17 countries around the world. His new book with G. Edward Watson is “Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning” (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, Humanities and Musicology) and has written over 100 scholarly articles in top journals and in books from Oxford, Cambridge and Princeton University presses. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. His books on teaching include “Teaching Naked” (2012), winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the sequel, “Teaching Naked Techniques: 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).
As President of Goucher College, Bowen introduced the nation’s first video application and created a new process-focused streamlined general education curriculum. Goucher was recognized as a top 10 college for innovation under his leadership. After decades of educational leadership, he received the Ernest L. Boyer Award from the New American Colleges and Universities in January 2018.
For more, see his website teachingnaked.com or his education TED talks.