Educational Policy
Dr. John A. Sparks is Dean of the Alva J. Calderwood School of Arts and Letters at Grove City College and teaches U.S. Constitutional History and Business Law. Sparks is a Fellow for Educational Policy with the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is a graduate of Grove City College (BA Economics) and the University of Michigan Law School (Juris Doctor). Sparks taught for seven years at Hillsdale College (Michigan) and began his teaching career at Grove City in 1976. He is the former chairman of the Department of Business.
Dean Sparks has been named an H.B. Earhart Foundation fellow, an R.C. Hoiles Fellow, a Chavanne Fellow (Baylor University Hankamer School of Business) and has received the prestigious George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, PA. He was named Professor of the year at both Hillsdale and Grove City College and received the highest alumni award from his alma mater, the Jack Kennedy Memorial Achievement Award.
Sparks has directed various summer institutes on public policy, economics and religious faith. Articles by Dr. Sparks have appeared in such publications as: The Presbyterian Layman, Engage Social Action, The Freeman, The University Bookman, Food Policy, Private Practice, The St. Croix Review, Pennsylvania Outlook Quarterly Review of Business, Discipleship Journal, and Allegheny Institute Occasional Papers. Dr. Sparks has been admitted to both the state bars of Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Sparks’ research and writing interests are constitutional law as applied to church property disputes, and educational policy.
Dr. Sparks is an elder in Covenant Presbyterian Church and has served on the school boards of both Christian and public schools in the area. Dr. Sparks and his wife Marion (GCC ’67) have two grown children, John and Elizabeth (Timmons), both Grove City College graduates, and two granddaughters, Katelyn and Paige
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