John Pease
John Alan Pease, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and co-chair of the department. He is also recognized as an advocate for strengthening academic standards, mentoring students, and making higher education affordable to students who come from less privileged backgrounds.To University of Maryland students of the late 1980s, his name was familiar to frequent readers of the school newspaper, The Diamondback, as an author and chair of a comprehensive review of the state of affairs in undergraduate education at the University, dubbed the "Pease Report", which included recommendations for improvement in affairs affecting students and faculty of the University of Maryland.Pease has received a number of teaching awards during his tenure at the University.