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 Robert E.
Myers, PhD, named President of Daniel Webster College
February 24, 2005 (Nashua, N.H.) – Dr. John F. Egan, chair of the Daniel
Webster College board of trustees, announced that Dr. Robert E. Myers,
chancellor of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) extended campus, has
been named as Daniel Webster College’s next president, effective July 1, 2005.
The 54-year old Myers succeeds Hannah M. McCarthy, who
announced last August that she planned to step down after 25 years as president
of the 39-year old institution.
Committed to academic excellence, Dr. Myers has a record of
significant achievement. He executed initiatives at ERAU to improve the quality
and currency of both faculty and curricula. He focused primary emphasis on
academic excellence among the institution’s faculty by reorganizing the campus
and reallocating campus resources, and he implemented the campuses’ first “Board
of Visitors,” populated with nationally and internationally recognized leaders
in aerospace, aviation, higher education and research. Committed equally to
students, their needs and providing student-centered support, he launched and
raised seed funding and corporate support for an extensive scholarship program.
Under his strategic leadership as executive vice president
and chief operating officer at University of Maryland University College (UMUC),
Dr. Myers oversaw global implementation of a $40 million management information
system, co-founded a for-profit affiliated spin-off corporation, and developed
entrepreneurial relationships with the U.S. Armed Forces.
Egan said Myers’ proven visionary capacity to forward the
programs at Embry-Riddle and UMUC is impressive. “We are confident that he will
lead Daniel Webster College to its next levels of achievement. With his
experience, Dr. Myers brings a tremendous skill set to Daniel Webster that will
ignite the potential Daniel Webster has to become a significant force in higher
education, both regionally and nationally.”
Dr. Myers noted that Daniel Webster College enjoys an
enormously successful reputation nationally. “The College is not only well known
in the [aviation] tradition from which it sprung, but in its efforts in reaching
out and broadening its curricular activities.” Additionally, he added, Daniel
Webster has remained true to its commitment to being a stellar teaching college.
“That really appeals to me.” He also captured the sense of excitement that the
community has about the institution’s future. “There is enormous enthusiasm and
energy on campus, which is absolutely imperative for an institution that has
aspirations to grow to the 'next level.'"
Dr. Robert F. Collings, vice chair of the board of trustees,
led the 12-member presidential search committee of trustees, faculty, students,
staff and alumni. “As an academic and administrator leader, Dr. Myers will
strive to position Daniel Webster to meet emerging opportunities while retaining
what is so essential to the success of our mission,” said Collings.
Dr. Myers received his Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy,
Planning and Administration from the University of Maryland College Park. He
also holds the certificate of completion in the Center for Creative Leadership’s
“Leadership Development Program,” as well as that for the Oxford “Roundtable for
Higher Education Leadership,” Oxford University. He sits on the American Council
of Education’s Commission on Lifelong Learning. In addition to his PhD Dr. Myers
holds bachelor of science and master of arts degrees in journalism from the
University of Maryland College Park.
Myers and his wife Gretchen have three children, Kate, 22;
Dylan, 13; and Libby, 8. The entire family, he noted, is anxious to return to a
location with four “real” seasons.
Daniel Webster College educates purposeful men and women for
professional entry, advancement and advanced studies in the fields of aviation,
computer science, management, social science, and engineering. Students prepare
through residential and continuing studies programs that emphasize the
integration of theory and practice through interactive teaching and learning in
the professional and liberal studies. A private, independent college with
campuses in Nashua and Portsmouth, N.H., Daniel Webster College was founded in
1965 as the New England Aeronautical Institute. For more information, please
contact Daniel Webster College, 20 University Drive, Nashua, N.H., 603-577-6000,
visit our web site at
http://www.dwc.edu
or e-mail publicrelations@dwc.edu
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