New College of Florida Names Finalists in Presidential Search
Four finalists in New College of Florida's presidential search have been selected for campus interviews between February 19 and March 6, 2012. The finalists are as follows:
Dr. Gregory D. Hess
Dean of the Faculty & VP for Academic Affairs, Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Gregory D. Hess has served as professor of economics, dean of the faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, a top 10 private liberal arts college, since 2006. His undergraduate degree is from University of California at Davis, and his two graduate degrees in Economics are from Johns Hopkins. He has been a visiting scholar at both universities and federal reserve banks across the nation and has lectured and worked abroad extensively. He has 40 articles appearing in refereed publications, one book, and eighteen book and journal articles in print. He has played a role in development initiatives at Claremont McKenna amounting to $220 million.
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Dr. Pamela Gunter-Smith
Provost and Academic Vice President, Drew University
Dr. Pamela Gunter-Smith has served as provost and academic vice president at Drew University, a highly regarded, small, private university in New Jersey, since 2006. Her academic field is biology, and for ten years she served as biology department chair at Spelman College in Atlanta, her alma mater. She also held an endowed professorship during her tenure at Spelman and was associate provost for science and mathematics following her term as biology chair. She was an ACE Fellow for one year serving under Donna Shalala at the University of Miami. She has held research positions at several high-profile national institutes, served as program director for several biomedical research and undergraduate science education programs funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes Health, and has an impressive research and publication record.
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Dr. Kevin F. F. Quigley
President and CEO, National Peace Corps Association
Dr. Kevin Quigley has headed the nonprofit National Peace Corps Association as president and CEO in Washington, D.C., since 2003. Quigley has served as Vice President for the Asia Society and Museum, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of public policy for the Pew Charitable Trusts. He worked for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, and was a Fulbright Senior Specialist. He earned his PhD from Georgetown, masters degrees from Columbia and University College Dublin, and his BA from Swarthmore College, where he has served on the board of managers. He has taught at George Mason, Johns Hopkins, and American University and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. He is author of five books, many of them dealing with democracy and service.
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Dr. Donal O’Shea
Dean of the Faculty and VP for Academic Affairs, Mount Holyoke College
Dr. Donal O’Shea has been dean of faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mount Holyoke College, a top 25 ranked private liberal arts women’s college since 1998. Prior to that, at Mount Holyoke, he headed sponsored research and chaired the Mathematics department. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvard University and his Master’s and doctorate from Queens College, Ontario, a prominent Canadian Research I university. He has been a visiting professor in major universities in the US and abroad (U. of Cambridge, UK; U. of Miami, U. of Hawaii, Universität Kaiserlautern, Germany; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France). He has six monographs to his credit and numerous research articles.
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