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Dan Garvey Named Prescott College's
12th President
 PRESCOTT, ARIZ. - The Board of Trustees of Prescott College has named Dr.
Dan Garvey the institution's 12th president. Prescott College is an experientially-based,
liberal arts college offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees, with
campuses in Prescott and Tucson.
Garvey is currently a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire
teaching and researching in the area of experiential education. Before joining
the faculty at UNH, he had a 25-year career as an administrator and educator
focused on education reform and improvement. He is a former president and
executive director of the Association for Experiential Education, has sailed
around the world three times as dean of the Semester at Sea Program through
the University of Pittsburgh, served as vice president for the American Youth
Foundation, was associate dean of Student Affairs at the University of New
Hampshire, and served on the Americorps Executive Committee and participated
in writing the first Americorps program grant.
"We are very excited that Dr. Garvey will be coming to Prescott College," said
Anne Dorman, chairman of the Prescott College Board of Trustees. "There
was no question in our minds that Dr. Garvey is a leader who, in many ways,
has spent his life gathering the requisite skills to lead Prescott College
into the future. We trust that Dr. Garvey will serve the College with compassion
and courage and lead Prescott College toward positive change."
Prescott College's history of educational innovation attracted Garvey to
the position.
"I am honored to serve such an outstanding institution," said
Garvey. "Prescott College's uniqueness lies in its ability to try new
and innovative approaches to education. The relationship between students
and faculty at Prescott College is based on the fundamental idea that the
student is in control of his or her learning, through self-direction and
real-life experience. Faculty members are guides and coaches, attempting
to help the students acquire the knowledge they want, and the institution
is organized to support this form of education. Prescott College is not simply
an alternative; it is an entirely different way to help support learners
in their search for knowledge."
Garvey believes strongly in the mission and future of Prescott College.
"Prescott College has a bright future because it examines and already
provides answers to questions that our society is only beginning to ask,
such as 'How are we to relate to our environment, each other and ourselves?'
Beginning as a VISTA volunteer in the early 1970s and continuing to this
day, I have been on a similar quest and feel that my interests, skills and
talents fit nicely with the direction Prescott College is headed," he
said.
Garvey holds a Ph.D. in social and multi-cultural foundations from the University
of Colorado, Boulder, a master's degree in social change from Cambridge-Goddard
Graduate School of Social Change, and a bachelor's degree in sociology from
Worcester (Mass.) State College. He is the recipient of the UNH School of
Health Studies 1998 Outstanding Teaching Award and the 1997 Kurt Hahn Award.
He has authored more than 25 books and articles dealing with the broad topic
of experiential education.
Garvey's full-time term as president begins on January 1, 2001. He will
continue his teaching responsibilities at UNH during the fall of 2000, coming
to Prescott regularly to become more familiar with the College's faculty,
staff and students.
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