Kent John Chabotar
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Kent John Chabotar is the current president of Guilford College.
Chabotar was born Oct. 7, 1946 in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude from Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pa., in 1968 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. He served two terms as student government president. He earned a master of public administration degree with distinction and doctor of philosophy degree in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship from Syracuse University in 1969 and 1973, respectively.
Chabotar received Michigan State University's Distinguished Educator Award for teaching excellence in 1973, was honored by the Michigan State Legislature for his development of public administration programs in 1974 and received Harvard University's Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988. He was honored by the Maine State Legislature on the 25th anniversary of his college teaching. He was elected vice president for finance and administration and treasurer emeritus by the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees and an honorary alumnus by the Bowdoin College Alumni Board in 2002. Bowdoin students established the Kent John Chabotar Scholarship Fund in 2002. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in Education from St. Francis University in 2003, and the Academic Leadership Award from the Council of Independent Colleges in 2003.
Chabotar is a member of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Council of Independent Colleges.
Academics and Business:
- President, Guilford College July 2002-present. Professor of political science.
- Vice president for finance and administration and treasurer at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, 1991-02. Senior lecturer on government and legal studies.
- Faculty member, Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, 1983-present.
- Lecturer, Museum Leadership Institute at the University of California at Berkeley, 1987-03, and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Calif., 2004-present.
- Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1982-91.
- Charter faculty member, College of Professional Studies, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1975-82.
- Assistant professor of political science, Michigan State University, 1972-75.
- Has authored or co-authored five books, including Strategic Finance and Endowment Management: Perspectives for Trustees, Chief Executives and CFO's (forthcoming in 2005) and numerous journal articles and monographs.
- Vice president and treasurer, Education Development Center, Inc., of Newton, Mass., a worldwide nonprofit educational research firm, 1986-89.
- Chief financial officer for The Williamson Group of Cambridge, Mass., a start-up computer services company, 1984-86.
- Project director, Abt Associates, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., working with cost accounting and program evaluation primarily in education and criminal justice, 1976-84.
