Background
Kennth Harwood was born in Chicago and attended the University of Missouri and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1947, his Master of Arts
Kennth Harwood was born in Chicago and attended the University of Missouri and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1947, his Master of Arts
In 1948 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1950 from the University of Southern California. While working on his Doctor of Philosophy, he married Arlette Mary Bartley on January 28, 1949, and he taught at the University of Alabama and the University of Southern California.
At the University of Alabama he became Professor and Head of the Department of Radio and Television, and at the University of Southern California he later rose to Chairman for their Department of Telecommunications. He left the University in 1978 to become Director of the newly formed School of Communication at the University of Houston. 1994 he became the director of Interns (California) School of Communication at the University of Houston.
He was on the board of directors for several commercial broadcasters including WFLN in Philadelphia.
From 1954 to 1968 he was General Manager at radio station KUSC at the University of Southern California. From 1964 to 1974 he was president of the Oak Kroll Broadcasting Company in Pasadena.
From 1971 to 1978 he was chairman of the Broadcast Foundation of California and from 1968 to 1978 director of the Franklin Broadcasting Company. Harwood has been rewarded the Frank Stanton Fellow of the International Radio and Television Society in 1979, and Distinguisted Education Service Award of the broadcast Education Association in 1986.
Since 1990 the Broadcast Education Association annually awards the "Annual Kenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation Award" established by Kenneth Harwood for the outstanding Doctor of Philosophy dissertations in broadcasting and electronic media.
End 1950s he had been among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.
