Professional Experience
Director, Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd
College 1994 - 2002
Vice President, University of Colorado Foundation, UCCS
1989 - 1993
Adjunct Professor of Public Administration, University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs, 1988 - 1993
Graduate School of Public Affairs
President, The Myron Stratton Home Foundation, Colorado
Springs, Colorado 1986 - 1988
President, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ 1971 - 1986
HEW Fellow, Office of Education, Washington, DC 1979 -
1980
Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College,
Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ 1970 - 1971
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of
the College, Dickinson College, 1968 - 1970
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dickinson College 1965
- 1968
Instructor of Philosophy, Dickinson College 1963 - 1965
Teaching Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1961 -
1963
Academic Background
Degrees:
Ph.D. Yale University 1965
M.A. Yale University 1959
B.A. DePauw University 1957
Honorary Degrees:
Doctor of Education, Bloomfield College 1986
Doctor of Laws, Fairleigh Dickinson University 1986
Fellowships and Honors
Rector Fellow , DePauw Univ. (1953-57)
Rockefeller Theological Fellow, Yale Univ. (1957-59)
Rockefeller Doctoral Fellow, Yale Univ. (1959-61)
Bois Kilburn Fellow, Yale Univ. (1961-62)
Kent Fellow (elected 1961)
HEW Fellow (1979-80);
Named one of the "100 Most Effective College and
University Presidents in the Nation" by the Exxon Education Foundation.
Fellow of the Florida Studies Program of the
University of South Florida 2004 -
Higher Education Board Positions
and Offices
The Metaphysical Society of America,
Program Coordinator for 2004 Annual Meeting
The University of South Florida, St.
Petersburg, College of Business Advisory Board
Chair of the Secretariat -- National Association of
Independent Colleges & Universities, Washington, DC
Board Chair -- Association of Independent Colleges &
Universities in New Jersey
Chair -- Commission on Intercultural Affairs, Council of
Independent Colleges, Washington, DC
President -- Association of Presbyterian Colleges &
Universities
Member -- National Steering Committee, National Commission
on the Independent College, Washington, DC
Member -- Government Relations Advisory Council, National
Assn. of Independent Colleges & Universities, Washington, DC
Member -- President's Advisory Council, Association of
Governing Boards of Universities & Colleges, Washington, DC
Member -- Student Assistance Board, State of New Jersey
Member -- Independent College Fund of New Jersey
Member -- The Society for Values in Higher Education
Community Board Memberships
Member -- The Montclair Kimberley Academy
Vice President -- The New Jersey Area, Boy Scouts of
America
Member -- The Northeast Region of the Boy Scouts of
America
Director -- The United Bank of Colorado Springs
Member -- Downtowners of Colorado Springs, Advisory
Committee
Founding Chair -- Cheyenne Mountain Adult School, Colorado
Springs, CO
Member -- The Economic Development Strategy Study
Oversight Committee for Colorado Springs
Member -- The Colorado Children's Campaign
President -- The Broadmoor Improvement Society
Moderator -- The Broadmoor Community Church
Resource Chair -- The Goodwill of Colorado Springs
Member -- The Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra
Member -- The DaVinci Quartet
Member -- The World Affairs Council of Colorado Springs
Member -- The Pikes Peak Council, Boy Scouts of America
Member -- The Foundation for Excellence, Cheyenne Mountain
School District
Member -- The Beth-El College of Nursing
Member -- The Colorado Springs Nonprofit Center
Member -- The El Paso County Higher Education Task Force
Member -- KTSC/TV Endowment Board
Other Community Activities
Pikes Peak United Way
Chair of Public Service Division - 1988
Chair of Professional Division - l989
Chair -- Business & Industry Campaign - Fine Arts Center
-1988
Member -- Colorado Springs Comprehensive Planning
Committee - 1989-90
Chair -- Vision Task Force - Comprehensive Planning
Committee - 1990
Counsel for l990 World Disabled Alpine Ski Championships -
1988-90 National Sports Center for the Disabled
Current Memberships
The American Philosophical Association
The Metaphysical Society of America,
Program Coordinator for 2004 Annual Meeting
The Society for Values in Higher Education
The University of South Florida, St.
Petersburg, College of Business Advisory Board
The Yale Club of N.Y.C.
The St. Petersburg Downtown Rotary Club
The Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College
The Tampa Bay Committee on Foreign Affairs
Recent Publications
An Unexpected River
Seminar: Rediscovering a Pre-Socratic River Dialogue in
Rivers of the Green Swamp, edited by Judith Redfern
and Albert Vogt III, Tampa Bay Writers Network and the Florida
Studies Program, The University of South Florida, 2008.
Utilizing America's Most
Wasted Resource, co-authored with Robert Diamond, Inside
Higher Education, April 6, 2007
Nature, Truth and Value: Essays in honor of
Frederick P. Ferré, co-edited with George Allan, Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Press,
2005
Comments on Donald Wayne Viney's paper, The
Metaphysics of Practicality as a Key to the Practicality of
Metaphysics: A Study in Pragmatic Indispensables, The
Metaphysical Society of America - 2004, Athens, GA.
Adult Distance Learning: A New National Priority for
the Global Good, Second International Conference on Technology in
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, June 27-29 – Samos Is. Greece,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2001.