COE Faculty Profile

Kenneth E. Owen
Affliate/Associate Professor
Division of educational leadership and policy studies

Email: owenk@msx.umsl.edu
Office: 261 Marillac Hall
Phone: 314-516-5906

Dr. Ken Owen earned his Ed.D., in Educational Administration from St. Louis University in 1993. Other degrees held include a Specialist in Education Administration, and a Masters in Secondary Education Administration, both from Southeast Missouri University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and BSE in Social/Political Science, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Dr. Owen holds certifications in social science, the middle and secondary principalship, and school superintendency.

Dr. Owen came to the University of MO-St. Louis in August 2000, after retiring from public education in June 2000, where he spent thirty years as teacher, assistant principal, principal, director of secondary education, assistant superintendent, associate superintendent, and superintendent. He has also served as an adjunct professor with numerous other colleges and universities, including Jefferson College, Missouri Baptist College, Southeast Missouri State University, and Central Missouri State University.

He has held active membership in the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals, Mineral Area Association of School Administration, Missouri State Teachers Association, Southeast Regional Tech Prep Consortium, National Association of School Administrators, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Phi Delta Kappa, Missouri School Improvement Program, Missouri A+ Schools Program, Rotary International, Lions Club, and Chamber of Commerce.

Professor Owen’s research has focused on several educational topics including job satisfaction among high school administrators, gifted and enrichment education; grant writing, statewide curriculum development and implementation, administrator’s evaluation techniques, tech prep education, applied/contextual methodologies, and the Missouri A+ Schools Program.

He has taught a variety of courses including School Finance, School Law, Building and Sites, Professional Negotiations, Elem. School Administration, Secondary School Administration, Foundations of School Administration, Ethics of School Administration, Educational Psychology, grant writing, the Principal’s Academy, tech prep, applied/contextual academics, curriculum development/design, leadership training for counselors and principals and internship portfolios.