Craig Paulson

Academics Faculty

Craig Paulson

Email: craig-paulson@bethel.edu

Job Titles

Highlight

Craig is a tenured faculty member within the Bethel University Doctor of Education: Leadership in Higher Education Program as well as the Doctor of Education: Leadership in K12 Administration and K12 Administrator Licenses Program. He has moved from full-time to phased-in retirement focusing on Comprehensive Examinations, Institutional Review Board approvals, and dissertation advising.

Started at Bethel

2002

Education

  • Muskingum College - B.A., 1970
  • University of Minnesota - M.A., 1978
  • University of Minnesota - Ed.S. , 1981
  • University of Minnesota - Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, 1983

Biography

Craig was the program director of Bethel's Doctor of Education and K12 administrator licenses program from 2006 to 2017. He is the former principal of Cambridge-Isanti High School and Cambridge Middle School, which was named a National School of Excellence. Before his years in Cambridge, he taught economics and law at Coon Rapids High School. He was a US Navy officer; worked for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith on Wall Street, New York; Prudential Insurance Company home office in Newark, New Jersey; served as a construction worker with Esposito Construction in Madison, New Jersey; and enjoyed lifeguarding in Puerto Rico. 

Courses Taught

EDUC800 Historical, Cultural, and Philosophical Issues Impacting School Administration

EDUC840 Administrative Operations and Personnel Management

EDUC886 K-12 Principal Internship

EDUC887 Superintendent Internship

EDUC880 Comprehensive Examination

EDUC890 Dissertation Phase 1

EDUC891 Dissertation Phase 2

EDUC606 Teacher as Leader

EDUC750 Student Teaching Seminar

Areas of expertise

Craig is a professor in the Bethel University Doctor Education: Leadership in K12 Administration and K12 Administrator Licenses Program; and the Doctor of Education: Leadership in Higher Education Program since 2006.