Dr. Brian Goldstein - Chief Academic Officer and University President

In this episode of the HET Podcast, we welcome Dr. Brian Goldstein, who talks about his roles as Chief Academic Officer and University President, as well as, his journey of how he got to where is today. Biography: Dr. Goldstein is an accomplished teacher, scholar and academic leader with more than 25 years of experience in higher education at public and private universities with multiple locations.  In his role as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at La Salle University in Philadelphia, he oversaw three academic schools, developed new programs, and led a successful institutional reaccreditation process.  He also held the position of Dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at La Salle and served as Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders among other faculty and administrative roles. Prior to joining La Salle, Dr. Goldstein was the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs for the College of Health Professions and Social Work at Temple University in Philadelphia where he also served as Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.  While at Temple, he advanced speech-language pathology program rankings, faculty promotion and development, and intra/inter-departmental research initiatives. Dr. Goldstein’s clinical experience was as a bilingual speech-language pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Rainbow Community Head Start in Philadelphia.  His interest and specialization is in speech and language disorders in bilingual populations. In addition to his stellar career in practice and academia, Dr. Goldstein has been the recipient of two prestigious teaching awards, has published five books and more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, and has presented at more than 100 peer-review national and international conferences with a focus on phonological development and disorders in monolingual Spanish-speaking and Spanish-English bilingual children. He received a masters and doctorate in speech-language pathology from Temple University and a bachelors in linguistics and cognitive science from Brandeis University. He is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and received ASHA’s Certificate of Recognition for Special Contribution in Multicultural Affairs.