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Office Location: 503 Administration Building
Office Phone: 718-631-6344
Email: dking@qcc.cuny.edu
Beginning service in February 2007 as vice president for academic affairs at Queensborough Community College (City University of New York), Dan L. King had served for the immediately previous four years as a vice president at Rhode Island College. Prior to his work at Rhode Island he had served as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Education and as Associate Vice President for Teacher Education at Buffalo State College (State University of New York). Other previous higher education appointments included education deanships at the University of Wyoming and Arkansas State University, and faculty positions at North Dakota State University and Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa).
 After completing his bachelor's degree with majors in music and religious studies at Madonna University (Livonia, Michigan), King spent several years as a school teacher and educational administrator in Michigan and Minnesota. He earned the M.A. degree in education at the University of Detroit Mercy, and the Ed.D. degree in educational administration at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan); he subsequently completed post-doctoral study at Wayne State in the field of higher education administration.
During his professorial career, King has authored/coauthored a book chapter, four technical reports, and over 50 papers which have been published or presented in scholarly forums. He has served as the principal or co-principal investigator of nine different funded grant projects totaling over $1.5 million. He has served on the editorial board of two journals—Educational Planning, and the National Forum of Applied Educational Research Journal (NFAERJ). He served as editor for the NFAERJ in 2002 and 2004; and recently served as editor for a special issue of the Journal of Higher Education Management.
In 1999, King was awarded the prestigious distinction of ACE Fellow by the American Council on Education. He has served as a strategic planning and organizational change consultant to colleges/universities, public schools, and governmental/civic organizations. He has been active in professional organizations, and served as a professional development training consultant for the National Association of Secondary School Principals. King has held offices and been on the boards of several professional associations. Currently he serves—pro bono—as the Executive Director of the American Association of University Administrators.
King has two grown sons. One completed a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, at Rhode Island College in 2005 with majors in Italian and philosophy and is now pursuing a doctorate in Italian at the University of Connecticut. The other graduated from the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, Rhode Island and now works in the yacht building and restoration industry.
Long active in professional service and community affairs, King has received service recognitions from the Arkansas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the Wyoming Association for Teacher Education, and both the Arkansas and Wyoming State Committees of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. He was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel by Governor John Y. Brown in 1982; in 1992 he was elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi, a national scholastic honorary society.
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