Advocating for student growth that sparks opportunity and creates change.

Areas of Interest

For nearly two decades, I've enjoyed the opportunity to be involved with institutions and educators who recognize the importance of supporting talented and motivated students with opportunities for them to learn to their potential. This subject is core of my passion for education and the guiding interest of my professional career to date.

Talent Development
Gifted Student Support

College Admissions and Financial Aid

Equity in Access

Digital and Narrative Storytelling

Study Abroad and Global Learning

Alderdice is a national leader on the role public residential schools play in talent development.

The University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees appointed Corey Alderdice as Director of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts in 2012. He is now the school’s longest-serving Director. Since joining ASMSA’s community of learning, he has worked to bring national prestige to the state’s only public residential high school for talented students while developing new programs in computer science, entrepreneurship, global learning, and the Arts that underscore the unique opportunities available through the school's "early college" experience. During his tenure, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, and the Jay Matthews Challenge Index have named ASMSA among the nation’s top 25 and “public elite” high schools. Over the past decade, Alderdice has helmed a $35 million transformation of the school’s physical campus.

Alderdice has been recognized by the Bezos Family Foundation, Arkansas Business, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), Code.org , and Arkansas Money and Politics magazine for his leadership in education and civic engagement. Director Alderdice serves on the boards of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools as President-Elect, Women’s Foundation of Arkansas as Secretary, Hot Springs-Hanamaki Sister City Foundation as Chair, Hot Springs Fifty for the Future as Treasurer, and Western Kentucky University Center for Gifted Studies.

His work in utilizing social media and technology for admissions and campus external relations has been spotlighted in Education Week and The Washington Post. Alderdice co-authored a chapter on public residential high schools as a form of academic acceleration in A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America’s Brightest Students (2015), a follow-up to the landmark report A Nation Deceived (2004).

He is married to Stephanie Patterson Alderdice, an accomplished communications coach and owner of SixtyOne Celsius, a boutique marketing and digital strategy firm named after Hot Springs’ world - famous thermal waters . They have one son, Elliott, who is twelve years old.

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Partner Organizations

and Collaborations

I have the good fortune to serve on the boards of some amazing organizations that are involved in global engagement, STEM education, women's advocacy, gifted education, and economic development.