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Nicholas D. Hartlep
Nicholas D. Hartlep (born November 25, 1983) is an adopted Korean American professor. He currently is the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College where he also serves as the Department Chair of Education Studies. Before arriving to Berea College during the fall of 2019 he was a tenured Associate Professor of Urban Education and Chaired the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Biography
Hartlep was born in Seoul, South Korea. His adoptive parents, Susan and Michael adopted him when he was 18-months old. Hartlep graduated from Green Bay Southwest High School in 2002. He attended Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, where he earned a B.S. in Elementary Education and Middle School Mathematics and graduated in 2006. In 2007 he married his wife Stacey Hartlep, who is an award-winning nurse. He attended Winona State University in Rochester, Minnesota, where he earned a M.S. in K–12 Education and graduated in 2008. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where he studied Urban Education (Social Foundations of Education). He earned his Ph.D. in Urban Education (Social Foundations of Education) in 2012, when he was named an Outstanding Doctoral Student.

Awards
Hartlep has received numerous awards:


 * Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Emerging Scholar, Class of 2020.
 * The Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement Award, 2018.
 * Metropolitan State University, the Community Engaged Scholarship Award and the President’s Circle of Engagement Award, 2017.
 * University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award, 2016.
 * Distinguished Young Alumni Award by Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, 2015.
 * University Research Initiative Award, Illinois State University, 2015.

Scholarship
Hartlep has written on several topics in his scholarship:


 * Endowed Professorships
 * The Model Minority Stereotype of Asian Americans
 * Affirmative Action and Asians

Hartlep has delivered a TEDx talk on Asian Americans.