Professor
Phone: 903.566.7260
Email: ycho@uttyler.edu
Building: COB 315.21
Department: Human Resource Development
Yonjoo Cho
Degrees
Ph.D. in Instructional Technology, The University of Texas at Austin
M.A. in Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea
B.S. in Education, Yonsei University, South Korea
Biography
Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea (Korea), Dr. Yonjoo Cho received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin and worked in diverse organizations including a telecommunications company, a non-profit organization, and a business school in Korea. Back in the United States in 2008, she joined Indiana University as a faculty of HRD, conducted research on action learning in organizations, international HRD, and women in leadership, and moved to UT Tyler in 2020, where HRD is housed in its own department. She enjoys teaching Ph.D. courses (e.g., contemporary issues in the HRD literature) using her experience as Editor-in-Chief of a flagship HRD journal, Human Resource Development Review (Impact Factor in 2023: 6.4) 2020-2023 and teaching online master’s courses (e.g., needs assessment in HRD) using project-based learning for student employability. She received the Outstanding HRD Scholar Award at the 2024 AHRD Conference.