Plattsburgh - The Board of Trustees for Clinton Community College have appointed Frederick W. Woodward, Ed. D., of Plattsburgh, New York, as Officer in Charge, beginning Monday, December 3, 2007, pending approval by the State University of New York Board of Trustees at their next scheduled meeting.

Woodward served as president of Westfield State College in Westfield, Massachusetts from August 1997 through January 2004. From 1988 through 1997, he was president of SUNY Morrisville, in Morrisville, New York, which included responsibility for the campuses at Morrisville, Norwich and the Educational Opportunity Center at Syracuse. He was president of Butler County Community College in Butler, Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1988 and Interim President at Columbia Greene Community College in Hudson, New York, from 1983 to 1984.

Earlier in his career, Woodward held the position of Assistant Dean of Professional Studies at State University of New York at Plattsburgh. From 1975 to 1977 he was the Director of Inmate Higher Education at Clinton Community College. He was Assistant Professor of Business and Chair of the Business Division at CCC from 1970 to 1973.

Woodward has been active in both civic and educational activities throughout his career. He served as Chair of Massachusetts Council of Presidents, Chair of the College of Technology Presidents, and Chair of the Pennsylvania Community College Presidents Association, just to name a few. He has served on the SUNY Chancellor’s Task Force on Budget and Policy Analysis, the National Think Tank for college presidents, and was Keynote Speaker for the Leadership Education Institute. Among his many awards and recognitions, he was named Administrator of the Year in 1989 at SUNY Morrisville, he is listed in Chancellors and Presidents, AACJC, 1987. He is a member of the American Management Association Presidents' Council, American Association of Community Colleges, American Association for Higher Education, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, National Council of Instructional Administrators and the State University of New York Council of Presidents.

Woodward did his post-doctoral study at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education, in 1993. He earned his Doctor of Education at the University of Virginia, 1981, and a Master of Science degree at SUNY Plattsburgh. He completed his graduate work while attending SUNY Albany, and earned his bachelor’s at Castleton State College, in Castleton, Vermont.

"Fred comes to us very well qualified having been the president of more than two colleges" said Nina Coolidge, chair of the CCC Board of Trustees. "He has retired in this community, which the Board of Trustees feel is a real plus for an interim president."

"Clinton Community College gave me my start in higher education and this is a way I can give back to the community," Woodward explained. "I’m looking forward to coming back and serving the college and the community again." Woodward and his wife Carol live in Plattsburgh. They have two children, Scott and Lisa.