Advocating for student growth that  sparks opportunity  and creates change.

The University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees appointed Corey Alderdice as Executive Director of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts in 2012. He is now the school’s longest-serving executive administrator. 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, music, 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. Niche.com has ranked ASMSA as Arkansas’ top public high school and among the top 50 nationally. Over the past decade, Alderdice has helmed a $35 million transformation of the school’s physical campus.

In 2013, the Bezos Family Foundation recognized him as one of twelve global Educator Scholars. In 2014, Arkansas Business named him to their annual list of “40 Under 40” leaders in business, education, and public policy. The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) recognized him in 2015 as one of five school administrators nationally for excellence in computer science advocacy. He is a 2016 graduate of the ArkansasState Chamber of Commerce’s “Leadership Arkansas Class X.” In 2017, Code.org named him and ASMSA among their inaugural recipients of the Champions of Computer Science award. In 2020, Arkansas Money and Politics magazine named Alderdice to their inaugural “Future 50” list of professionals poised to shape the future of Arkansas’ economic, political, and cultural engines. 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).

Director Alderdice serves on the boards of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools as the 2023-24 President, Women’s Foundation of Arkansas as Secretary, Hot Springs-Hanamaki Sister City Foundation as Chair, Hot Springs Fifty for the Future as Chair, Arkansas Learning through the Arts, and Western Kentucky University Center for Gifted Studies.

He is married to Stephanie Patterson Alderdice, an accomplished communications coach and marketing professional. They have one son, Elliott, who is fourteen years old.