2001 - present:	President Eckerd College 4200 54th Avenue South St. Petersburg, Florida 33711 727-864-8211
1998 - 2001:	Vice President for Strategic Planning and Public Affairs University of Georgia Athens, Georgia Primary responsibilities: Development of a comprehensive strategic planning program for the University of Georgia, in concert with University System of Georgia Board of Regents, and in anticipation of a $500M to $1B university-wide capital campaign; provide administrative leadership for offices of Institutional Research and Planning and Public Affairs; principal role in developing new campus (Gwinnett) with special emphasis on utilizing emerging information and communications technologies; development of strategies and programs to enhance national image and visibility of UGA.
1991 - 1998:	Vice President for Development and University Relations University of Georgia Primary responsibilities: Chief advancement officer, with responsibility for: Development; Alumni Relations; Public Information (News, Broadcast and Video Services, Publications, and Visitor and Information Center); Government Relations and Special Events. Also served as Executive Director of The University of Georgia Foundation. Selected accomplishments: Created a professional development and fundraising organization; hired thirty-five staff to manage corporate, foundation, planned, major, and constituent-based giving; developed comprehensive computer-based information management system to support development and alumni programs; doubled number of annual donors; successfully completed $150 million campus-wide capital campaign in 1993; doubled level of private giving to institution over six years; reorganized UGA Foundation Board and committee structure; reorganized alumni relations function, doubling staff and programs; launched Georgia's first dues-based national alumni association; developed a public affairs office focused on national news; revamped internal faculty/staff newspaper and alumni magazine; developed advisory board for alumni communications; created Visitor and Information Center and community relations function.
1990 - 1991:	Vice President for University Relations (Acting) Cornell University Ithaca, New York Primary responsibilities: Chief public affairs and government relations officer; principal administrative liaison for international program. Selected accomplishments: Developed marketing strategies for College of Human Ecology and Cornell Hotel School; helped secure largest commitment ever made by New York General Assembly to University research project ($100 million to "B" Factory); developed communication materials for $1.5 billion capital campaign; developed unified marketing and communications program for Cornell Computing and Information Management Systems; developed community relations agreement with local government; created unified athletics image and marketing program; negotiated television contract for coverage of all football games.
1989 - 1990:	Executive Director of University Communications Cornell University Primary responsibilities: Principal deputy to the Vice President for University Relations; member of Cornell's Executive Staff; line responsibility for institutional internal and external communications offices and programs; member of the Council for International Education; communications and media oversight for Cornell Athletics; capital campaign communications.
1979 - 1989:	Executive Assistant to the Chancellor and Executive Director of University Communications The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Primary responsibilities: Serve as chief of staff for university central administration; represent the Chancellor and the central administration with internal and external constituencies, including the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, the UTK Council of Academic Deans, the UT system-wide administration, the press and various public groups as necessary; coordinate the work of the Vice Chancellors and Provost of UTK; serve as a member of the central budget and planning group; review all proposals for new academic programs and degrees; participate in long-range planning efforts; provide special reports on problem areas; review state and federal legislation and help determine consequences for campus policy and practice; coordinate and develop University public relations, marketing, publications and video projects; line responsibility for the Office of University Communications; liaison between campus and UT intercollegiate athletics program; development and coordination of faculty development programs; chair of University Council on International Education; serve as member of the Title XII Board of Directors of the UT Institute of Agriculture; member of Board of Directors of the Stokely Institute for Appalachian Studies; appoint and coordinate administrative committees of the University; University Liaison with the Oak Ridge Operations Office of the Department of Energy; represent the University in Consortium of Research Institutions (comprising UTK, TVA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Oak Ridge Operations Office of the Department of Energy); Coordinator of the UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory-TVA Consortium.
1975 - 1979:	Assistant to the Chancellor, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Special Projects included: Revision of University Personnel Policies and Procedures; revision of University Appeal Procedures; development of Pre-Medical Enrichment Institute for Disadvantaged Students; development of College of Law Admission by Performance Institute for Disadvantaged Students; coordination of Faculty Handbook revisions; Chair of the Search Committee for the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance; Vice-chair of the Search Committee for Provost; development of organizational and financial plan to comply with Title IX (women's athletics); analysis of institutional investment ethics, with particular reference to investment in South Africa, and draft of statement of principles for institutional investments.
1972 - 1975:	Executive Director, Florida Endowment for the Humanities, The Florida Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities' State Program Primary responsibilities: Administration of federal, state and private grant funds for public programs in humanities; administration of grants to 57 institutions of higher education and public organizations; representation of the Board of the Florida Endowment to the public and the higher education community of Florida.
1989:	Visiting Professor of English Literature, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
1975 - 1988:	Taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and fiction at the University of Tennessee, two courses annually.
1974:	Assistant Professor of English, University of Florida
1971 - 1972:	Instructor of Humanities, University of Florida

RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

2000:	Panelist, AIR/CASE (Association for Institutional Research and Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Research Colloquium, "The New Demographics of Philanthropy" (St. Louis, MO).
	Moderator and panelist, CASE District III Annual Meeting, "Coordinating Communications and Fund-raising Programs"s (Atlanta, GA).
1999:	Convenor and host, joint conference of AIR/CASE Research Colloquium on "Communicating Institutional Quality" (Washington, DC).
1999 - Present:	Member, Board of Trustees, CASE.
	Member, Advisory Board for CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement.
	Chair, Advisory Board for CASE Currents (Professional magazine for advancement profession).
1998 - Present:	Member, Society for College and University Planning.
1996 - 1999:	Member, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Commission on Communications.
1996:	Moderator and panelist, CASE District III Annual meeting, "The Relationship Between Development and Public Relations in Higher Education."
1995:	Panelist, AAU Public Affairs Annual Meeting, "Race and Racial Issues in the Research University."
1989 - 1992:	Member, Association of American Universities (AAU) Council on Public Affairs (representing Cornell University).
1986 - 1998:	Institutional Representative, National Association of State Colleges and Land-Grant Universities (NASULGC) International Division (representing the University of Tennessee, Cornell University and the University or Georgia).

COUNTRIES VISITED:

Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Finland, France, French West Indies, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tibet, Turkey, Yugoslavia. I have worked on University linkage programs with institutions in Brazil, Chile, China, England, Ireland, Jordan and Tunisia.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

"Communicating Institutional Quality," CASE Currents, September 1999. "Mergers: Business Lessons for Schools," Georgia Trend, December 1998. Seven short essays in The Wall Street Journal and The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, 1991 - 1999. "The Things Tenure Protects," Georgia Trend, September 1994. "The Ethics of International Education: Essay, Rebuttal and Rejoinder," The Association of International Education Journal, Summer 1989. "Teaching Stories: An Essay on Education and Cultural Literacy," Soundings, Vol. LXXI, No. 4 (Winter 1988), 555-566. "Institutional Principles for International Education," International Education, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 1988), 8-12. "Educating Americans for World Citizenship," The Chronicle of Higher Education, XXXII, No. 14 (June 4, 1986), 35. "The Strategies of Survival: Cybernetic Difference in The Einstein Intersection," Extrapolation, The Journal of Science Fiction of the Modern Language Association, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Fall 1981), 270-276. "Time and Propriety in Far From the Madding Crowd," Interpretations, Vol. X, No. 1 (1978), 20-33. "The New Profession of Letters," Change: The Magazine of Higher Education, Vol. 10, No. 11 (December-January, 1978-79), 8-9. "The Academic Landscape: Beyond the Sixties," The Graduate Magazine, (Spring 1977), 57-59. "The Public Use of Culture,"s Southern Humanities Review, X, No. 4 (Fall 1976), 335-343. "Academic Professionalization," The Chronicle of Higher Education, XII, No. 8 (April 19, 1976), 17. "Myth and Fate in the Characters of Women in Love," The D. H. Lawrence Review, IX, No. 2 (Summer 1976), 177-193. "The Humanities: Equipment for Living," The Colorado Quarterly, XXIV, No. 1 (Summer 1975), 5-16.

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