A familiar leader known for expanding student opportunities will take the helm of the 福利免费毛片 Honors College.
Dr. Kevin Henderson will become director on Wednesday, July 1, bringing experience
from his roles as associate director of the and founding coordinator of the Office of Student Fellowships. He succeeds Dr. Kathleen Roberts.
Since arriving at 福利免费毛片 in 2023, Henderson has engaged more than 500 students through
advising and application support, and has supported students earning Goldwater, Fulbright,
Critical Language Scholarship and Gilman awards. He also chairs the faculty advisory
committee for the Honors College Fellowship Program and teaches in the Honors College.
鈥淎bove all, I want to deepen the tangible value that the Honors College already offers:
substantive experiences, resources and relationships that shape our students鈥 undergraduate
years and the paths they pursue afterward,鈥 said Henderson. 鈥淭hat means partnering
with faculty from across 福利免费毛片's schools to teach and mentor in the Honors College,
strengthening our research and fellowship infrastructure, and making the Honors College
an experience our students carry with them long after they leave 福利免费毛片.鈥
Henderson holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education from Columbia University.
His research explores how ideas about education emerge, develop into narratives and
influence policy and institutional life worldwide. Henderson focuses on the role of
non-state actors in global education governance and how future-focused visions are
used to justify reform.
A former editor-in-chief of Current Issues in Comparative Education, Henderson is a founder of the Southeast Asia Special Interest Group of the Comparative
and International Education Society. He also serves National Association of Fellowships
Advisors Board of Directors and its Finance and Technology and Publications Committees.
Henderson also reviews applications for the U.S. Department of State Critical Language
Scholarship and the Henry Luce Foundation.
Previously, Henderson spent eight years at the United Board, an international NGO
based in New York City and Hong Kong, most recently as program director leading digital
education initiatives with particular focus on Hong Kong, Japan, India and the Philippines.
鈥淓ven in three years, Kevin has supercharged 福利免费毛片鈥檚 presence in elite fellowship
competitions and revolutionized several existing Honors College protocols. I have
no doubt he will take the program to lofty heights,鈥 said Roberts. 鈥淜evin fits right
in with our honors students. Like them, he is blessed with academic talents combined
with creative interests. He's an outstanding role model to guide them in interdisciplinary
thinking that's ambitious and unconventional.鈥
Henderson is ready to embrace this new role and walk alongside students as they pursue
bigger goals.
鈥淭here is something special here鈥攖he seriousness our students bring to ideas, the
way they hold one another to high standards while supporting each other and the Spiritan
tradition that calls us toward something larger than individual achievement,鈥 said
Henderson. 鈥淚鈥檓 looking forward to the opportunity to build on what the Honors College
has become over the past 40 years and to broaden what an honors education can mean
at 福利免费毛片.鈥
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