Thursday, February 23, 2012


Judith Jensen Ed.D., the founder and Director of Educational Solutions, has extensive experience in university education, distance learning, technical innovation, entrepreneurial efforts, project management, and international marketing.  In 1979, she received her Ed.D. from Harvard's Laboratory of Human Development at the Center for Research in Children's Television.  From 1980-1986, Jensen worked at the Stanford Instructional Television Network, a pioneer in distance learning and now the Stanford Center for Professional Development.  As Associate Director, she ran daily operations and Internet research projects, as well as handled financial analysis and national marketing.  In 1986, Jensen left Stanford to co-found and become President of University Video Communications, a Silicon Valley company.  Jensen surveyed leading faculty around the country to identify computer scientists and electrical engineers whose lectures would enrich university courses.  These videotaped lectures were used as course inserts to update computer science and electrical engineering courses.  Major high-tech corporations, such as Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Intel, funded production of these video-lectures, which were sold world-wide at low price to some 3,000 universities and 4,000 corporate sites.  Jensen supervised video shoots around the country and developed University Video Communications videotape distribution system.   From 1998-2002, she taught comparative religion as an adjunct faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology.  Jensen's conflict resolution training and experience was provided through Marshall Rosenberg, Bob Chadwick, and Thomas Renault.


Susan Forbes Luxton, Associate Director of Educational Solutions, has experience as a researcher and as an international educator, teaching writing and critical thinking skills in the Middle East and the U.S.  Luxton received her B.A. in literature at Bennington College in 1973 and her MA in English at the University of Hawaii in 1976.  In Hawaii, Luxton reviewed research and wrote for the East-West Center, an international agency committed to the exchange of ideas concerning development issues in Asia and the Pacific Basin.  During her six-year stay in the Sultanate of Oman, she was tutor to children of the Royal Family and taught at the Sultan's School, which was established to train Omani youth to assume leadership positions in the country.  In 2000, she worked in Jordan for the United Nations, assisting Iraqi refugee women.  She has taught composition and critical thinking skills at the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Loa College, the Sultan's School, Peninsula Community College, and the Oregon Institute of Technology.  Luxton served as a board member of the Klamath Mediation Center 2003-2006.