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COHE faculty page
Reid Johnson, Ph.D.
Area Dean, Psychology and Humanism
Course author, Understanding Ourselves and Our Universe
Dr. Reid Johnson earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Mathematics and Psychology at the University of North Carolina - Asheville in 1966, and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees from the University of South Carolina in 1971. His 35-year professional career includes experience as an educational researcher, as a public school psychologist, and as a Professor of Psychology at Winthrop University, S.C. His 23 years in the last position included overlapping duties as instructor, Graduate Program Director, Special Projects Director, and institutional and consortial Assessment Director. Additionally, Dr. Johnson served two years as a full-time higher education administrator at Francis Marion University. He has received over a dozen distinguished service awards for his achievements.
Dr. Johnson considers himself first and foremost a higher educator, i.e., both a teacher and student dedicated to promoting exemplary learning and development at the post-secondary level. Over the past 16 years, he has increasingly devoted his professional efforts to Institutional Effectiveness Assessment (IEA) -- defining and measuring quality in higher education academic programs and administrative and support offices, and using the results to implement continuous effectiveness (quality and efficiency) improvements. In that capacity, Dr. Johnson has served as an IEA practitioner, accreditor, and outside consultant, working with over 50 institutions in 23 states. During his school psychology and IEA careers, he gave over 400 presentations and workshops. He has published more than 20 articles, newsletters, book chapters and monographs on those topics.
In 1998, Dr. Johnson began devoting most of his personal and professional time to secular humanist education. From 1998 to 2001, he consulted with the Center for Inquiry to help develop higher education programs in secular humanism. In this capacity he conducted over a dozen humanism-related presentations and workshops and served as Dean of the Center for Inquiry Institute. In October 2000, he wrote the grant proposal which has become the Internet-based Continuum of Humanist Education (COHE) program for the Institute of Humanist Studies (IHS). He now serves as the Area III Dean for Psychology and Humanism (PSH).
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