Peter J. Chiaramonte

	Rank:	- Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership
	Activities & Interests:	-Charismatic Leadership -Rhetoric of leadership -Governance of Universities
	Degrees:	-BA, BEd -University of Toronto -MA, PhD -University of California
	Office:	150 South Hall
	Office Hours:	-M,T,W,Th 10- 11;30 am
	Phone:	570-662-4344
	E-mail:	pchiaramonte@mansfield.edu

Personal Statement

• A native of Toronto, Canada, I began my university career at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1969—where I was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to play hockey for the OU Bobcats.  We didn’t have a Spring semester during my freshman year, since the University suspended classes after four students were shot dead at Kent State University.  I sort of lost interest in hockey.  I transferred home to the University of Toronto where I studied phenomenology and graduated with a BA in philosophy from St. Michael’s College.  While in Teachers’ College at the University of Toronto I worked as an Athletics Coach and was assistant to Canadian Olympic Decathlon Coach, Andy Higgins, in preparation for the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

• I attended graduate school at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where I earned my MA in Gestalt Psychology and my PhD in Institutional Leadership and Communications.  While at UCSB I also taught and studied at the world famous Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.  Since the 1980s I have taught at universities in California, British Columbia, Alberta, Western Ontario, Toronto, Nova Scotia, North Carolina, the state of Georgia, the republic of Georgia, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Bangkok, Thailand.

• Here at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania I am an associate professor of psychology and director of the Master of Arts degree in Organizational Leadership.