Greene
Lexington, KY - M. Dwaine Greene has been named the 24th President of Georgetown College.
He assumes the post October 21, 2013. His selection by the College’s Board of Trustees was announced Monday by Earl A. Goode, Board Chairman, and comes after the board restarted its process to find a president in May when two of the school’s three finalists, Jason Rogers, vice president for administration and university counsel at Belmont University in Nashville and Jim Newberry, former mayor of Lexington and Georgetown’s general counsel, withdrew from consideration.
“I am thrilled at the prospect of serving as President of Georgetown College,” said Greene. “I hold deep respect for what Georgetown has accomplished during its many decades. Quality academics in concert with faith commitments is what resonates with me both personally and professionally. Joining such a worthy endeavor with fine colleagues at Georgetown will be a high honor. I am humbled by the opportunity."
Originally from North Carolina, Greene, 56, comes to Georgetown from Campbell University, a Baptist College in Buies Creek, North Carolina, where he has been academic vice president and provost since 2001. He is an alumnus of Campbell, where he earned his bachelor’s in religion. He then received his Master of Arts in New Testament from Wake Forest University and subsequently completed his doctorate in New Testament and Early Christianity from the University of Virginia.
“The Board of Trustees is confident that Dr. Greene’s experience as an admired scholar, effective administrator, his warm and welcoming leadership style, and his dedication to Christian higher education will make him an outstanding leader for Georgetown College,” Goode said in a release from the school. “The more we interacted with this man and the more the search committee did its due diligence, the more it seemed the Lord is affirming this is the man.”
Greene was not among the original applicants of 62 that was whittled down to three. He succeeds William H. “Bill” Crouch, Jr., who retired June 30 after 22 years as Georgetown’s president.
Georgetown College is the first Baptist College west of the Allegheny Mountains and was chartered in 1829.