David Evans

David Rees Evans (Grad ’87, ’94) was elected to the board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. His three-year term began in February 2017. Mr. Evans is the president of Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vermont. He was previously the vice president for academic affairs and the dean of faculty at Buena Vista University in Iowa. He has spoken and written on professional issues including faculty hiring and careers, training for administrators and the future of small private colleges in The Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere.

David Evans (Grad ’87, Grad ’94) was selected to serve as president of Southern Vermont College beginning Jan. 1, 2015. He previously served as vice president of Buena Vista University in Iowa, as dean of the Petree College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma City University, as chair of the department of English, speech and journalism at Georgia College & State University, and on the English faculty at Cornell College.