Daniel R. DeNicola, Vice President

Daniel R. DeNicola has served as vice president for program development since August 2006, and is professor of philosophy (on sabbatical during 2007-08). He was provost of Gettysburg College from 1996 to 2006. During that time, Gettysburg grew by 36 full-time faculty positions, added four new academic departments and instituted twelve educational programs, including a model First-Year Seminar Program and a new Conservatory of Music. DeNicola led successful reforms of the faculty governance system and the most sweeping changes in the baccalaureate degree in forty years. He also taught a philosophy course each fall-either Secrets and Lies or Philosophical Theories of Emotion. He plans to resume full time teaching in the fall of 2008. 

DeNicola graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio University; he earned his masters and doctorate degree in philosophy and philosophy of education from Harvard University. He then served over twenty years at Rollins College (Winter Park Florida)-as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Department Chair, Dean of the Faculty, and Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost for nearly a decade.

His published works relate to his research interests: theories of the emotions; ethics, bioethics, evaluation theory, and theories of virtues; aesthetics; and ancient Greek philosophy. DeNicola is the recipient of two N.E.H. grants to direct summer seminars, an Ashforth grant to research the papers and correspondence of John Stuart Mill; and Arthur Vining Davis Fellowships (twice) for outstanding teaching and scholarship. In 1991-92, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the Philosophy of Education Research Center. He is a long-standing moderator of a seminar in the Educational Leadership Program for senior college administrators, now held at Yale University.

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