Leadership
Jorge Klor de Alva, J.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President for Academic Excellence and Director
University of Phoenix National Research Center
Dr. Klor de Alva previously served as President of the University of Phoenix and Senior Vice President of Apollo Group, Inc. He was also a member of the boards of directors of Apollo Group and the University of Phoenix from 1991 to 2003. Prior to re-joining Apollo Group in the Fall of 2005 as President of Latin American Operations, he was the Chairman, President, and CEO of Apollo International, Inc. (with operations in Europe, Asia, and Latin America serving over 170,000 students).
Before joining Apollo Group full-time in 1996, he held the Class of 1940 Endowed Chair at the University of California—Berkeley, and before that he was Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He has received a number of grants from Spain and Mexico, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and he was a Fulbright Scholar, John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, Harry Frank Guggenheim grantee, and Fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. Dr. Klor de Alva has a B.A. in philosophy and a law degree (J.D.) from the University of California—Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in history/anthropology from the University of California—Santa Cruz. He has published over eighty scholarly articles, is co-author of ten social studies textbooks, and has another fifteen books on social science subjects. His most recent books include, In the Language of Kings (WW Norton: 2001) and The Americans (McDougal Littell: 2007 [latest edition]), the latter is a widely used survey of U.S. history.