James Dator's Teaching and Administrative Experiences


Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1956

Instructor, The American University, Washington, DC, 1957-59

Assistant Professor, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 1960-66

Instructor, Foreign Training Institute, Foreign Ministry of Japan, 1962-66

Instructor, University of Maryland, Far Eastern Division, Tokyo, 1963-66

Assistant/Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, 1966-69

Co-Director and Instructor, 4th Institute on Mathematical Applications in Political Science, grant from the National Science Foundation, Summer 1968

Director and Instructor, EPDA Civics Institute for teachers and administrators in economically disadvantaged areas, on a grant from the US Office of Education, Summer 1969

Associate Professor/Professor, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1969-present

Head, Program in Futures Research (renamed by Hawaii Legislature in 1971 the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies), Social Science Research Institute, 1970-present

Co-founder and instructor, Survival Plus Program, and New College, 1970-71

Instructor, "The Future from the Pacific Rim" for Hawaii school teachers, taught on University of California, Berkeley campus, Summer 1971

Co-Director & Instructor, Earth 2020 Teachers Institute and Lecture Series, on a grant from NASA, 1974

Head, Futures Project, Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TV Ontario), Toronto, Canada, 1974-76

Visiting Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Department of Adult Education (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) and New College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1974-76

(Resuming University of Hawaii)
Coordinator, Media Lab, Department of Political Science, 1976-1996

Co-director, Annual Futures Course, InterUniversity Centre for PostGraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1975-1988

Head, Alternative Futures MA Option, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, 1977-present

Director, International and Education Division, Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, 1980-87

Co-Founder, Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1984-86

Co-Director, First Annual Pacific Peace Seminar, Summer 1986

Lecturer, Public Administration Program, University of Hawaii, 1983-present

Lecturer, Doctoral Program, School of Architecture, University of Hawaii, 2000 to present

Co-Director, Space and Society Division, International Space University
Elected to Academic Council 1999 -
 
Co-director, annual Summer Sessions:
1994, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Catalonia
1995, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden
1996, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
1997, Rice University, Houston, Texas
1998, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
1999, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
2000, Universidad Technica Federico Santa Maria,
Valparaiso, Chile
2001, Universitat Bremen, Germany,
2002, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona,
2003, ISU Home campus, Strasbourg,
2004, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2005, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
 
Master of Space Sciences program, Strasbourg, France
Annual lectures since 1995