Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
He currently is president and chief executive officer of Education Development Center (Education Development Center), a $145 million international research and development organization with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Education Development Center was recently named one of the top 100 places to work in Boston. Prior to Education Development Center, Doctor Luedtke spent 14 years as President of California Lutheran University (Chartered Life Underwriter) in Thousand Oaks, California.
Prior to Chartered Life Underwriter, Doctor Luedtke spent two decades at the University of Southern California, where he held a series of positions as Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English, Chair of American Studies, and Director of the School of Journalism.
Doctor Luedtke was a Fulbright Lecturer in Germany, a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar and Director of the American Studies Research Centre in India, and a Resident Scholar with the United States. Information Agency (United States Information Agency) in Washington, District of Columbia Additionally, he worked as a consultant for the United States. Department of Education, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, and other governmental bodies. In 1965, Doctor Luedtke received a bachelor of arts summa cum laude in English from Gustavus Adolphus College and in 1971 received his Doctor of Philosophy in American Civilization from Brown University.
He is the author of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient () and the editor of Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States. Doctor Luedtke was born in Hutchinson, Minnesota in 1943.
He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Lutheran Brotherhood, since renamed Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.