Contact Info
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Campus: Skokie
Email: sthompson@nl.edu
Phone: 224.233.2539
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Biography
Stephen L. Thompson is an associate professor in social and behavioral sciences and formerly the associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at National-Louis University. He has been at NLU for 18 years and had also directed the CPS bridge program and the Gidwitz Center for Urban Policy and Community Development from 2003 to 2007. Prior to coming to NLU, he was a registered respiratory therapist and had worked at several Chicago-area hospitals, primarily in Neonatal Intensive Care. Thompson has written on issues of physician collective bargaining, strikes and also the privatization of public schools.Education
Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago 2000) M.S.I.R. (Loyola University Chicago 1984) B.A. (Drake University 1975)Publications
Thompson SL: “Public Education and Privatization in the Ownership Society,” Chapter 8 in Price, TA & Peterson, E (eds): The Myth And Reality Of No Child Left Behind - Public Education and High Stakes Assessment: A Report Issued On Behalf of National-Louis University, 2008, (2009) University Press of America Inc, Lanham, MD
Thompson SL: “Healthcare Today,” Chicago Hospital News, Vol. 5, Issue 4, 10 (2007)
Thompson SL: “The Privatization of Public Education: A Goal of NCLB?” Common Concern, Volume II, 25-28 (2006)
Thompson SL, and Salmon JW: “Strikes By Physicians: A Historical Perspective Toward an Ethical Evaluation,” International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 36, No. 2, 331-354 (2006)
Thompson SL: “U.S. Health Care—The Realities and the Feasibility of Change,” PRAGmatics-Journal of Community Based Research, Vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2004
Thompson SL, and Salmon JW: “Physician Collective Bargaining in a U.S. Public Hospital,” International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 33, No. 1, 55-76 (2003)
Presentations
Health Care Today, presented at InBusiness event at National-Louis University, North Shore Campus, May 5, 2007.Images
