Senior Advisor to the President/Associate Professor
Dr. Craig Adamson, Senior Advisor to the President and Associate Professor, is a veteran restorative practitioner with more than 25 years of experience delivering counseling and educational services to delinquent, dependent and at-risk youth. As President of the IIRP model programs, Community Service Foundation and Buxmont Academy, where he has worked since 1995, Craig has developed and implements innovative approaches that utilize restorative practices. These approaches include community-based alternative-to-placement programs for delinquent youth, restorative practices academic environments that reconnect and re-engage learners and drug and alcohol programs that support successful futures.
Prior to this role, Craig served as Provost and oversaw all IIRP educational programs from graduate-level study to Continuing Education. He is deeply engaged in advancing the social science of restorative practices through the development of research and theory.
Craig’s recent publications in peer-reviewed literature focus on creating restorative learning environments for adults, as well as research that utilizes mixed-method research methodology. They include articles in the Journal of Transformative Education (2012) and New Directions for Teaching and Learning (2016), along with Intentional Classroom Engagement (2020), the first book in IIRP's Advanced Practitioner Series. Craig is also Visiting Faculty, Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Temple University, a Master of Restorative Practices and Youth Counseling from the IIRP and a Ph.D. in Education from Lesley University.
Twitter: @adamsonc4