Board of Directors

Richard T. Vacca

Professor emeritus from Kent State University and Past President of International Reading Association

Richard T. Vacca is a professor emeritus from Kent State University. He currently works with school districts and universities throughout the United States on issues related to adolescent literacy and learning. Widely known in reading studies around the world, Richard has written solely or in partnership some of the most important and long-lived textbooks for the teaching of reading, including Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum (now in its eighth edition), Reading and Learning to Read (seventh edition), and Elements of Language (first through sixth courses). Rich was a member of the Board of Directors of the College Reading Association and the International Reading Association, and served as the 42nd President of the International Reading Association (IRA) in 1996-97.