David W. Atkinson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David W. Atkinson is a Canadian academic and incoming president of Kwantlen University College. He is the former president of two Ontario universities, Brock University in St. Catharines and Carleton University in Ottawa.
David W. Atkinson was born in Sunderland, England, and immigrated to Canada when very young. Educated in Calgary, he attended the University of Indiana, where he was an All-American in Cross Country, and a member of the Big Ten Championship Cross Country Team. He returned to the University of Calgary, where he completed his B.A. (1970), and subsequently earned an M.A. (1971), and Ph.D. (1975) in English.
David Atkinson was a faculty member at the University of Lethbridge from 1977 to 1991, where he took on increasingly senior administrative positions, including Director of Applied Studies, Chair of Religious Studies, Associate Dean of Arts and Science, and Dean of Student Affairs. In 1991 he was appointed Dean of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1997 he was appointed President of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and in 2005 President of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
Most recently, he was appointed President of Kwantlen University College in Surrey, British Columbia, which in May, 2008 was designated as Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He will take office on July 1, 2008.
David Atkinson has held faculty positions in both English and Religious Studies. He has published widely in both disciplines.
[edit] External links
|
|||||
