Martin Charles Jischke[1] (JIS-key) (born August 7, 1941)[2] is an American higher-education administrator and advocate who was the tenth president of Purdue University.

Jischke has served as chairman and board member of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and as a board member of the American Council on Education, National Merit Scholarship Corporation, and the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities.

He has given more than 50 major technical presentations and lectures, and has held research fellowships with NASA and the Donald W. Douglas Laboratory.

He served as Chair of the Faculty Senate during the 1974–75 academic year,[7] dean of the College of Engineering from 1981 to 1986, and in 1985 Dr. Jischke was named the university's interim president.

[8] Jischke is a recipient of the American Society for Engineering Education Centennial Medallion[9] and the Illinois Institute of Technology Professional Achievement Award.

[10] He is an honorary member of Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society, having been tapped by the Barbara Cook chapter at Purdue University in 2006.

In October 2004, Jischke testified before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the value of international students, their decline in U.S. university enrollment since the September 11 attacks, and recommendations for visa policy reform.