{{Short description|British psychologist}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = <!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC --> | name = Stewart I. Donaldson | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | other_names = | occupation = Distinguished university professor | period = | known_for = Author and psychologist | title = | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | education = | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = <!--full-time positions only, not student positions--> | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Stewart I. Donaldson''' is a British-born American positive psychologist specializing in health, well-being, and evaluation science. He is a distinguished university professor at Claremont Graduate University and is the director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and The Evaluators' Institute. He also served as dean at Claremont for 16 years (2001-2017) and as president of the American Evaluation Association in 2015.
==Career== Donaldson is now a distinguished university professor in the Schools of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation and Community and Global Health at Claremont Graduate University,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cgu.edu/school/school-of-community-and-global-health/faculty/|title=Faculty|publisher=Claremont Graduate University School of Community and Global Health|access-date=2022-12-15}}</ref> and he also serves as the executive director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and The Evaluators Institute. <ref name="Christie">{{cite book |last1=Christie |first1=Christina A. |last2=Vo |first2=Anne T. |title=Evaluation use and decision-making in society : a tribute to Marvin C. Alkin |date=2015 |publisher=Information Age Publishing |location=Charlotte, NC |isbn=9781681230061 |page=162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QgYoDwAAQBAJ&dq=stewart+donaldson+president+of+the+american+Evaluation+Association&pg=PA163 |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref> In 2015, he served as president of the American Evaluation Association.<ref name="Patton">{{cite book |last1=Patton |first1=Michael Quinn |title=Utilization-focused evaluation |date=2022 |publisher=SAGE Publications |location=Thousand Oaks, California |isbn=9781544379487 |page=26 |edition=Fifth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5ssEAAAQBAJ&dq=stewart+donaldson+president+of+the+american+Evaluation+Association&pg=PA26 |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
==Books== Donaldson has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on the science and practice of positive psychology, well-being, positive organizational psychology, program design and evaluation, and has published or has forthcoming more than 20 scholarly books, including Stewart I. Donaldson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jeanne Nakamura (2020). ''Positive Psychological Science: Improving Everyday Life, Well-Being, Work, Education, and Societies Across the Globe'' | {{cite book |last1=Donaldson |first1=Stewart I. |last2=Picciotto |first2=Robert |title=Evaluation for an equitable society |date=2016 |publisher=Information Age Publishing, Incorporated |location=Charlotte, NC |isbn=9781681234458 |page=239 |edition=ebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bgcoDwAAQBAJ&dq=stewart+donaldson+president+of+the+american+Evaluation+Association&pg=PA239 |access-date=15 December 2022}}
==Personal life== Donaldson is a naturalized US citizen who has lived in California.<ref name="CGU">{{cite web |title=Stewart I. Donaldson Distinguished University Professor |url=https://www.cgu.edu/people/stewart-i-donaldson/ |website=Cgu edu |publisher=Claremont Graduate University |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Claremont Graduate University people
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==External links== * [https://www.donaldsonandassociates.com/ Stewart I. Donaldson & Associates] * [http://www.cgu.edu/pages/904.asp Faculty page at Claremont Graduate University] * [https://research.cgu.edu/claremont-evaluation-center/ Claremont Evaluation Center] * [https://tei.cgu.edu/ The Evaluators Institute (TEI)] * [https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/cam/author/stewart-i-donaldson/ Dr. Donaldson at SAGE Publications]
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