Serving as professor of chemistry at Lehigh University since 1972, Dr. Ned Heindel has impacted the nation’s higher education system far beyond his work in the fields of chemistry and pharmaceuticals. In 1992, Heindel headed a team at Lehigh University that founded the first distance-learning center of any college or university in the country.
Distance learning, now an integral offering at many leading U.S. colleges and universities, allows students unable to attend classes at the institutions the opportunity to benefit from a top quality education. Lehigh’s Office of Distance Education averages between 400 and 500 students, some living and studying globally. As a result of the work of Dr. Ned Heindel and his dedicated team, a pioneering trend that will continue to transform the world of higher education found its spark in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
