Dr. Steve Tippins

Steve Tippins has been a professor in various forms for 30 years. His true passion lies in helping people achieve their goals.

In graduate school, at Florida State University, he was the only student in a new degree program. All of his classes were one-on-one. He is well aware of the lonely journey of a PhD student.

After graduate school, he worked at Indiana State University for one year, then for 10 years at Howard University, followed by 9 years at Roosevelt University, and 6 years at the University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse.

He has worked for Walden University for the last 15 years and spent 4 years on the graduate faculty at Northcentral University, in addition to holding positions at Grand Canyon University and Capella University. He has also worked for insurance companies and banks and consulted for numerous firms, both for-profit and not-for-profit.

He has broad experience at both traditional and online schools. He has been granted tenure twice and been promoted multiple times. He holds a Professor Emeritus position at Howard University. He has been a Department Chair and served on many search committees and promotion and tenure committees.

Steve has published over 50 times in academic journals and presented at many conferences. He has Chaired over 80 dissertation committees, and he wrote a book that was translated into Japanese.

Steve’s biggest joy is in working one-on-one with individuals. He enjoys helping people define their goals both related to school and after school and setting up programs and plans to help them reach their goals.