Master of Arts Program

Colloquium Keynote Speaker February 2002: Doug North

Dr. Doug North has been President of Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Alaska since 1995 and was President of Prescott College from 1989 to 1994. While at Prescott College he conceptualized the Master of Arts Program (MAP), designed it, sold the concept to the College, and saw it through the accreditation process, then turning it over to Ellen Cole as its first Director. At Alaska Pacific University, he has started a very similar program, which is now in its second year. He says, “If I were to write a book, it would be about two opposed visions of education, the factory and the garden, but my own creative talents seem to go more toward constructing a garden university than writing about the concept. Maybe that is why there is a practicum component in MAP and not just research and thesis.” He once described himself as a turnaround artist for distressed, interesting colleges and universities, but now claims to have settled down in Alaska. Prior to his time at Prescott College, Doug was a professor of literature at Wesleyan University (CT) and Goddard College (VT).

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