Newberry College announced on June 11, 2010, that Dr. V. Scott Koerwer, a senior business school administrator, entrepreneur and authority on leadership and strategy, will become the College's 21st president, effective July 1. He follows Dr. Mitchell Zais, who has served as Newberry's president since 2000.
Currently Deputy Dean and Clinical Professor of Management at the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business, Dr. Koerwer brings a broad range of educational perspectives to the Newberry presidency. He was educated at a leading liberal arts institution, Muhlenberg College, and went on to receive his Master's Degree from a leading science and engineering university, Lehigh University. He was awarded his doctorate in education from the internationally recognized University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Koerwer is also an alumnus of the Advanced Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In addition to the Moore School, he has served as an executive at two leading schools of management: the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Robert Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
During the course of his 20-year career in business and higher education, Dr. Koerwer has established a notable track record of collaboration and accomplishment at each institution he has served.
Dr. Koerwer co-launched three companies including a software company focused on knowledge management and back office operations for higher education clients and a boutique consulting and training firm. As a husband and father, he enjoys spending time with his family --including wife, Christine, and two daughters, Rachel and Julia. "We are all looking forward to being part of the Newberry community!" he adds.