Lester F. Goodchild Papers

Lester F. Goodchild began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Iowa State University and Director of Suburban Campuses at DePaul University in Chicago during the late 1980s. He served as Interim Dean and Associate Professor of Education at the University of Denver. His specialty was the study of higher education, with emphasis on its history, public policy, administration, and professional ethics. Dr. Goodchild had a B.A. in Sociology from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota; a M.A. in Religious Studies from Indiana University; a M.Div. from St. Meinrad School of Theology in southern Indiana; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His Ph.D. dissertation explored the rise of American Catholic universities and their respective Catholic characters from 1842 to 1980 in a comparative study of the University of Notre Dame, Loyola University Chicago, and DePaul University. Dr. Goodchild was the Director of the Higher Education Program and Professor of Education at Santa Clara University, California. He died in November of 2015.