[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_tabs interval=”10″][vc_tab title=”About” tab_id=”1406348314-1-2fc99-52f4″][vc_column_text css_animation=”appear”]Dr. Scott D. Miller has served as President of the College and M.M. Cochran Professor of Leadership Studies since the fall of 2007. Respected as one of the most entrepreneurial higher education executives in America, Dr. Miller is in his twenty-third year as a college president.
Raised on a college campus in Pennsylvania, the son of a public-school administrator, Dr. Miller has dedicated his career to the opportunities available through education. He especially values the small, classical, liberal arts college environment that offers students personalized pathways to life and career success.
Dr. Miller came to Bethany with the same innovative spirit that enabled him to transform Wesley College in Delaware during his 10-and-a-half-year tenure as President of the College and Du Pont Professor of Leadership Studies. Prior to Wesley, he served for seven years (1991-97) as president of Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, where he was executive vice president (1988-91) and vice president for development (1984-88). He also served as Director of College Relations and Alumni Affairs at Rio Grande College (now University) in Ohio. Known as an accomplished fundraiser, Dr. Miller has raised more than $160 million in his 22 years as a college president.
Dr. Miller earned an M.A. from the University of Dayton, an Ed.S. from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in higher education administration from The Union Institute & University. His doctoral dissertation was a landmark study of resource development effectiveness at the 38 institutions (including Bethany College) with membership in the Appalachian College Association.
In coming home to West Virginia where he earned his B.A. degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College and worked as a journalist early in his career, Dr. Miller, 54, brings to Bethany a lifetime of commitment to the values of a residential, liberal arts campus in a pluralistic society, with an emphasis on teaching, service, student-faculty engagement, and lifelong learning.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”Conversation Contents ” tab_id=”1406348314-2-79fc99-52f4″][vc_column_text css_animation=”appear”]
Timeline
00:50 – The State of College Athletics
04:09 – Why I’m Involved in Athletics
05:00 – Trickle Down Effect
06:49 – Call for Leadership
08:12 – Presidential Involvement
09:21 – The Role of Athletics
12:12 – Faculty Friction?
14:44 – The Role of Coaches
18:14 – Future of Small College Athletics
20:27 – Division III Split?
22:07 – What AD’s Should Know About Presidents
25:28 – What About Winning?
27:18 – ‘Presidents are Like Coaches’
28:19 – ‘We’re in the Student Business'[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”Recommended Reading” tab_id=”1406348421642-2-5fc99-52f4″][vc_column_text css_animation=”appear”]
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