Dr. Bruce McPheron is a Professor of Entomology and the Dean’s Chair in International Programs for the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at the Ohio State University. Having returned to his alma mater in 2012, he is back on the college’s faculty after serving as Dean of CFAES and Executive Vice President and Provost of the university.
While Executive Vice President and Provost, McPheron partnered with then Ohio State president Michael Drake to create the University Institute for Teaching and Learning (now the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning). The Institute developed and implemented the Teaching Support Program, which provided tangible training for over 3,500 faculty at Ohio State to improve their teaching.
Dr. McPheron is an alumnus of The Ohio State University, with a B.S. degree in Entomology, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served as a county-based extension educator responsible for 4-H in southwestern Ohio prior to his career as a faculty member and administrator at Penn State University and Ohio State.