In corporate life, Bernard Luskin has served as CEO/president of major divisions of Fortune 50 and 500 companies. Luskin is founding president and CEO of Polygram's American Interactive Media, Philips Interactive Media and Philips Media Education and Reference Publishing. As CEO of Jones Interactive, Inc., Luskin was also group president of companies which included cable networks, film and television production, education, and telecommunications companies. Several of these companies were Jones Digital Century, Jones Education Networks, Jones Computer Network, Knowledge TV, Mind Extension University, The Internet Channel and Jones Management Information Systems. Luskin is founding President and Co-CEO of Global Learning Systems. Presently, Luskin is Chairman and CEO of Luskin International, Executive Vice President of Fielding Graduate University, and Visiting Professor at Claremont Graduate University.
In education, Bernie Luskin was president of Orange Coast College, founding president of Coastline Community College and is a founding executive of KOCE-TV, the Orange County PBS station operated by the Coast Community College District. Dr. Luskin was also founding chancellor of Jones International University; the first fully accredited totally web-based university. Luskin served for nine years on the board of directors of the American Association of Community College, was Chairman, and served in Washington, D.C. as Executive Vice President and COO. In addition to present service as Executive Vice President of Fielding Graduate University and Visiting Professor at Claremont Graduate University he has taught at UCLA, USC, Pepperdine University and various branches of California State University. He has also served as chairman of The National Council for Resource Development.
In media, Dr. Luskin pioneered early programs in compact disc, moving on to telecommunications and cable network development. Luskin put the first computer in a community college, wrote the first high school data processing textbook, authored seven best-seller economics, technology and education books, directed the study and produced the model for the television courses presently used in distance learning for which he received two Emmys and a variety of other honors. Luskin has produced hundreds of television programs, CD-Rom programs and learning systems, and constructed agreements establishing major milestones in intellectual property. Among his many television and CD projects are the first Sesame Street CD, Treasures of the Smithsonian, Charlton Heston Presents the Bible, Compton's Encyclopedia, Grolier's Encyclopedia, and Voyeur, the first interactive CD movie, and starring Robert Culp.
While CEO of the new business division of Polygram Records, Luskin was a principal in the first deal between Philips and Paramount Studios to digitize motion pictures on compact disc in MPEG format, leading to DVD. He planned and launched the first US compressed cable network. In 1998, he completed a major study of psychology and new technologies for the American Psychological Association, Media Psychology Division, defining new uses of media in the fields of learning, commerce, government, medicine and psychology.
Dr. Luskin has, or is now serving on the Board of Directors of Polygram Pictures, the California School of Professional Psychology, The Center for the Partially Sighted, the Transportation Foundation of Los Angeles, KLCS TV, High Tech High L.A., Digital Directions International, Creative Frontier, Inc and Imerge, Inc., a leading digital music developer based in the U.K. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of Claremont Graduate University, served on the Accrediting Commission for Collegiate Schools of Business and presently serves on the Education Policy Committee of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Millennium Council of the American Film Institute.
For twenty-five years Luskin has regularly served as Contributing Editor and editorial board member of THE Journal. Dr. Luskin was appointed by Congress to serve on the National Science Foundation, Science Education Committee. He was appointed by California's governor as a commissioner on the California Postsecondary Education Commission (the oversight body for all California higher education)and served as chairman of the program committee with oversight responsibility for all statewide higher education programs. Dr. Luskin also served as evaluator of the New Media Literacy Project conducted by the University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication.
Bernie Luskin's latest book, Casting the Net Over Global Learning was released in September 2002. This book is important to those involved in e-learning and workforce training. It provides focus on trends in the new online learning psychologies, new forms of the emerging corporate university, and the new leadership in global learning.
With degrees in Business (accounting and management), a license in Family Therapy, and a UCLA doctorate in Technology and Higher Education, Luskin was a UCLA, Kellogg and University Fellow. He is a recipient of the UCLA Doctoral Alumni Association, University of Florida, Council for Resource Development, California State University, L.A., Long Beach City College, European Commission and Irish Government lifetime achievement and distinguished leadership awards for seminal contributions and leadership in education and digital media.
Bernie Luskin is married to Toni Thomas Luskin and has two sons, Ryan and Matteo.
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