John Vallentine, Ph.D.

John F. Vallentine, Ph.D. reports to the Provost and Executive Vice President as the Associate Provost for Faculty at the University of Northern Iowa. His responsibilities include advancing the university vision, mission and strategic plan in relation to faculty activities; providing faculty personnel support to Academic Affairs Division through collaborative interactions with all constituents; providing oversight of the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning; enhancing coordination of administrative processes and procedures for faculty recruitment, retention and recognition; serving as division liaison on faculty personnel matters; assisting with implementation and communication of academic policies and procedures; providing employee relations support; participating in implementation and administration of the faculty handbook, collective bargaining negotiations and contract administration; providing leadership development for departments; interfacing with Board of Regents and completing Board reports; elevating diversity in faculty hiring, retention, and review; and serving as Academic Affairs representative on the threat assessment team and other campus-wide committees.

Dr. Vallentine currently serves as a National Association of Schools of Music Visiting Evaluator for universities located throughout the United States.

In 2018, Dr. Vallentine was selected as a member of the 2018 Seminar on Leadership of the Faculty at Harvard University.

As a professor of music, Vallentine formerly served as director of the UNI School of Music from 1998-2017.  The school gained national and international recognition, growing to include 58 faculty members and more than 300 music majors. Faculty members and student ensembles received prestigious invitations and performed globally around the world. During his tenure as director, the $23 million dollar Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center opened and a major $12 million-dollar renovation project was completed for the music building, Russell Hall. The School of Music endowment in support of faculty and students grew to more than $5 million dollars.  From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Vallentine served as director of the UNI Panther Marching and Symphonic Bands, and taught applied clarinet lessons. He also taught undergraduate and graduate music education and conducting courses. Other positions previously held were at the University of Kentucky, University of Wisconsin-Platteville and in the Waterloo, Illinois public schools.

Dr. Vallentine, a clarinetist and pianist, has published research on applied music teaching behaviors; presented on technology and distance learning; served as an accompanist; and conducted bands, offered master classes, and performed throughout the Midwest and internationally in Costa Rica and Russia. His bands were selected to perform for NFL football games for the Green Bay Packers.  

Professor Vallentine holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Kentucky; a Master of Music Degree in Conducting from the University of Northern Iowa; and a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Vallentine resides in Cedar Falls, Iowa, with his wife Diane, a music theorist, saxophonist and composer, and has four grown children and two grandchildren.