Robert M. Toepper was honored with the Gross Faculty Study Award and the Faculty Research Award at Concordia University.
AURORA, IL, September 04, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Robert M. Toepper, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Toepper celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Now an accomplished social studies educator, Dr. Toepper's success has been largely inspired by teachers he had at a formative age and the encouragement he received to pursue a vocation within the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He initially earned a bachelor's degree from Concordia University, and went on to earn a master's degree from Washington University in 1967. He furthered his education with an advanced graduate certificate from the university in 1971, ultimately earning a doctorate in 1979. Currently retired, he achieved certification as secondary teacher, supervisor and principal from the states of Missouri and Illinois in the duration of his career.
Dr. Toepper embarked upon his professional journey as a teacher at Lutheran High School South in St. Louis, MO, from 1963 to 1969 and went on to serve as a research associate at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Tacoma, WA, from 1973 to 1976. From there, he became an assistant professor at Concordia College New York in Bronxville, NY, from 1976 to 1978 and associate to full professor of education and economics at Concordia University Chicago in River Forest, IL, where he taught from 1978 until his retirement in 2003 where he notably completed four accreditation reports. Notably, he has also dedicated time as coordinator of secondary social studies accreditation for the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education for the National Council for the Social Studies.
Due to his accomplishments in the field of education, Dr. Toepper was honored with the Gross Faculty Study Award and the Faculty Research Award at Concordia University in 1993. He was also the recipient of the experience teacher fellowship at Washington University in 1969 and the National Defense Education Act fellowship in 1970. Passionate about civic outreach in addition to his professional goals, Dr. Toepper is currently involved with spiritual care at the Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora and has worked as chairman and board member of Christian education at the Northern Illinois District of the Missouri Synod branch of the Lutheran Church. He has also applied his skill set to involvement with articles in "Lutheran Education," the journal of the Lutheran Education Association.
Demonstrating a wide range of knowledge in his field, Dr. Toepper has contributed his skills to several published works, including "Parochial Pre-School, Elementary School, or No School Sponsorship Compared to Five Categories of Parish Growth in 15 Missouri Synod Districts during the 1980s" in 1995, "To What Degree Do Unchurched Parents Who Enroll Their Children in Parochial Schools, Join the Sponsoring Congregation" in 1993, and "The Lutheran Teacher as Minister" in 2000. Among other independently-written and co-written works, he also penned "A System for Codifying Handwritten Lesson Transcripts for Comprehensive Analysis" with R. Everhart, J. McGeever, and B. Hawley-Winne in 1977.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Toepper has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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