Daniel Garvey
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Dan Garvey is Prescott College’s 13th president. Prior to his position at Prescott College he was a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire, teaching and researching in the area of experiential education. Before that he had a 25- year career as an administrator and educator focused on education reform and improvement. He is a former VISTA Volunteer and Upward Bound Director, 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 program grant.
Dan holds a Ph.D. in social and multi-cultural foundations from the University of Colorado at 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, the 1997 Kurt Hahn Award recipient, and the 2002 Julian Smith Award recipient. He has authored more than 25 books and articles dealing with the broad topic of experiential education. He is a currently serving as a Trustee of NOLS, and is on the Board of Directors of Project Adventure. Most recently he has been appointed by Arizona’s Governor Janet Napolitano to the Arizona State Commission on Service and Volunteerism.
