HRTD Department
- Contact Us:
Jolene Welker
Dept. Secretary
Tel: (208)282-3906
Fax: (208)282-4496
welkjole@isu.edu
Mailing Address:
610 Garrison Hall
Campus Box 8081
Pocatello, ID 83209
Dr. Fowler Charles "Chuck" Humphrey,
Emeritus Professor
Dr. Humphrey's areas of expertise are facilitating adult learning, especially Andragogy; history, sociology, and philosophy of adult education as well as program planning and evaluation. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service for 23 years as a county agent, rural sociologist, community development specialist, and director of agricultural communications. He has extensive knowledge of the land-grant university system. He has been at ISU since 1992.
He has made presentations at state, regional and national adult education conferences on the subject of distance learning, adults' preferences for teaching methods, community education, teaching styles, using TQM to define instructional quality, and the Nominal Group Technique. He has also authored extension bulletins about program planning and evaluation.
Since retiring in May 2007 Dr.Humphrey is spending his
time traveling and teaching an occasional class for the department. He is a former officer in the US Army Reserve; retired since 2002. He collects toy farm tractors as shown in the picture below.
Dr. Charles Humphrey Ph.D.
B.S. 1964, M.S 1969, North Dakota State University
Ph. D., 1973, University of Wisconsin-Madison
