Founder

John Giordano, Ph.D., M.F.A., is the program founder and Lead Faculty for Semester for Change. Dr. Giordano founded RAMP Education in 2016. In addition to 30 years of college teaching in the visual arts, humanities, and community engagement, Giordano has developed or taught in numerous high school-to-college bridge programs: early college, pre-college, and college support programs for first-year college students, including the Acceleration Program in Art at Skidmore College in New York, MADE in Lawrence early college program for first generation students, and the Early College Program at Northern Essex Community College, both in Massachusetts. Giordano’s artwork and writing explore the intersections of creativity, philosophy, education, and social change. His college courses in the socially-engaged humanities explore topics through project-based, dialogical, and interdisciplinary approaches. A firm believer that learning doesn’t have to take place in classrooms, Giordano has traveled extensively with college students in the US, Asia, Europe, and Africa since the early 2000s. He is also a lecturer in the Tufts University Experimental College and the Interdisciplinary Studies Doctoral Program at Union Institute & University. You can read his Founder’s Statement here.

Semester for Change is a program of RAMP Education, a Boston-area education consultancy focused on college and workplace readiness, college counseling, including the college transfer process, and Life-Design coaching.