Daniel Workman Barwick is the President of Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas.
Education
Following high school, he attended school in Strangnas, Sweden, as a Rotary International Exchange Student, returning to the United States in 1987 to attend the State University of New York College at Geneseo, where he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where Barry Smith served as his dissertation advisor.
Career
Barwick was raised in Utica, New New York He then earned a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Iowa, studying under Panayot Butchvarov. He is a 2012 graduate of Leadership Independence and a 2013 graduate of Leadership Kansas.
Immediately before becoming President of Independence Community College, he was Associate Professor of philosophy and Director of Institutional Advancement at Alfred State College, Executive Director of that college"s Development Fund, and held a number of other administrative positions there.
He has published and lectured on higher education, and was the President of the New York State Association of Scholars, and President of the American Association for Learning Outcomes Assessment. Barwick is certified by CFRE International, a provider of professional certification of fundraising proficiency.
The capital campaign he designed and led at Alfred State College surpassed its goal by 100%. In addition to his academic work, he is the former Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics Associates, Limited Liability Company, a real estate holding company in New York, and was the Chief Financial Officer for The Well-Dressed Reader, an internet specialty company.
Following a clash that took place between the Alfred State College campus president and the employees that attracted national coverage in the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other venues, Barwick identified the event as the first time that social media criticism had contributed substantially to the reassignment of a public college president, publishing positively reviewed analyses in national and international publications.
Barwick is a proponent of the view that a negative link between large class size, generically understood, and reduced learning outcomes has not been proven to exist in higher education. He has argued that although a negative link has been established between certain types of instruction in large classes and learning outcomes, there is not sufficient experimentation with different instructional methods to determine whether large class size is always correlated with poorer outcomes. Barwick is the author of the book Intentional implications: the impact of a reduction of mind on philosophy, published by University Press of America in 1984.
According to WorldCat, the book is held in 80 libraries.
He is also the author of fourteen articles and chapters, primarily on educational administration and his philosophical interests, which include ethics, cognitive science, and metaphysics.
Membership
In 2012, he was elected as one of the voting members of the American Institute for Economic Research.