Biography

Kirby Barrick has focused his entire career on enhancing learning through enhanced teaching. He earned the PhD from The Ohio State University, with emphasis on teacher education, higher education administration, and research. He has taught at both high school and university levels and has served in various administrative roles, mostly recently as a dean at the University of Florida.

He has earned three degrees at Ohio State University, beginning his career as a high school teacher. He served as an assistant state supervisor in the Ohio Department of Education before joining the faculty at Ohio State faculty. He taught courses in teaching methods, data analysis, and experiential learning and was awarded the OSU Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988.

Barrick chaired the Department of Agricultural Education at Ohio State for seven years and headed the OSU Extension 4-H Youth Development program. He was Associate Dean in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois before becoming Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Florida in 2005, returning to the faculty in 2010 after 22 years in administration. He developed and taught graduate courses on instructional design and university governance. He teaches the university governance course and a history and philosophy course online.

His research interests are in the areas of teaching and learning. He has authored or co-authored more than 180 books, chapters, and refereed articles and papers and 140 invited papers, posters, monographs, and workshops and has served as principal investigator for more than $9.7 million in grants and contracts.

He is a Fellow in the AAAE, and he received the Outstanding Educator Award from NACTA. Barrick served as ACTE Agricultural Education Division President and as NACTA President.

Barrick has been a Fulbright Specialist in Saudi Arabia and Korea and has conducted program and teaching development activities in Egypt, Korea, Haiti, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. He has presented more than 80 scholarly papers, articles, and workshops in international conferences and journals and led study abroad programs in the Dominican Republic, Egypt, and Korea.

Dr. Barrick has focused his teaching, research, and outreach program expertise on the improvement of student learning through enhancement of teaching. He teaches and conducts research and development activities for high school and university faculty in the U.S. and abroad.