HOUGHTON COLLEGE GRANTS HONORARY DOCTORATE TO DAVID WINTER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 1, 2007
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HOUGHTON COLLEGE GRANTS HONORARY DOCTORATE TO DAVID WINTER

HOUGHTON, N.Y. —Dr. David Winter received an honorary doctor of humane letters from Houghton College during the college’s commencement exercises, at which he gave the address. Winter had been invited to speak by Houghton’s new president, and Westmont’s former provost, Shirley Mullen, who acknowledged Dr. Winter as her mentor.

Winter is president emeritus of Westmont College in Santa Barbara. Before assuming the role of president at Westmont in 1976, Winter was a professor at Wheaton College, Calvin College and Michigan State University. He served as an air intelligence office in the United States Navy for four years and conducted anthropological fieldwork under the Ford Foundation in Pakistan. In 1970 he became academic vice president and then executive vice president of Whitworth College. He served as president of Westmont from 1976 until 2001.

During his tenure at Westmont, Winter served on the Senior Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and on the boards of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation, the Independent Colleges of Southern California, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, the Christian College Consortium, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, the Council of Independent Colleges, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Western College Association, the American Council on Education’s Commission on Women in Higher Education, and the Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities.

In 1986 Winter was recognized as one of the 100 most effective college leaders in the United Sates by a survey of higher education officials and scholars conducted by Bowling Green State University and funded by the Exxon Foundation. In 1992 he received one of five President Leadership Awards and Grants from the Knight Foundation. In 1999, the John Templeton Foundation selected Winter as one of 50 college presidents who exercised leadership in character development.

Winter received his bachelor’s and master’s from the University of California at Los Angeles and his doctorate from Michigan State University. He holds honorary doctorates from

Whitworth College, Seattle Pacific University, Gordon College, and Pepperdine University.