Daniel (Dan) E. Garvey

Elected to the NOLS Board: 2004

Dan was elected to the NOLS Board of Trustees in June 2004. He is chair of the Strategic Initiatives Committee, and serves on the Risk Management Committee and the Executive Committee.

Dr. Garvey is Prescott College’s 12th president. Prior to his position at Prescott College Garvey was a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire, teaching and researching in the area of experiential education. Before that he had a 25-year career as an administrator and educator focused on education reform and improvement. He is a former president and executive director of the Association for Experiential Education, has sailed around the world three times as dean of the Semester at Sea Program through the University of Pittsburgh, served as vice president for the American Youth Foundation, was associate dean of Student Affairs at the University of New Hampshire, and served on the AmeriCorps Executive Committee and participated in writing the first program grant.

Dan holds a Ph.D. in social and multi-cultural foundations from the University of Colorado, Boulder, a master’s degree in social change from Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School of Social Change, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Worcester (Mass.) State College. He is the recipient of the UNH School of Health Studies 1998 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 1997 Kurt Hahn Award recipient, and the 2002 Julian Smith Award recipient. He has authored more than 25 books and articles dealing with the broad topic of experiential education.

Dan and Barbara Nelson Garvey have been married since 1973 and have two wonderful children, Katie and Connor. Both children work in the outdoor industry.