Dr. John C. Cavanaugh, Senior Consultant
Dr. John C. Cavanaugh served as President and CEO of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, as Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and as president of the University of West Florida. For over 40 years, John has been a leader in higher education policy and innovation, as well as for the application of technology. He has led statutory and regulatory reform of higher education, and is a national leader on quality assurance and accreditation. His disciplinary expertise is in gerontology and neuroscience.
John earned his B.A. in psychology with high honors from the University of Delaware, and his M.A and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Notre Dame. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota and an American Council on Education Fellow. He received the American Council on Education Council of Fellows Mentor of the Year Award, the Eileen Tosney Award for Career Service in Higher Education from the American Association of University Administrators, and the Pensacola Area Commitment to Excellence Community Leader of the Year Award. He was also awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa) from Drexel University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.