Daniel R. Porterfield
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| 15th President of Franklin & Marshall College | |
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Assumed office March 1, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | John A. Fry |
| Senior Vice President for Strategic Development Georgetown University |
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In office 1997–2011 |
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| Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (Policy & Strategy) United States Department of Health and Human Services |
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In office 1993–1996 |
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| Born | 1961 Baltimore, United States |
| Residence | Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
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Georgetown University Hertford College, Oxford City University of New York Graduate Center |
| Website | [1] |
Daniel R. Porterfield (born August 19, 1961) is the 15th president of Franklin & Marshall College.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Daniel R. Porterfield graduated from Loyola Blakefield, a Jesuit college prep school, in 1979. In 1983 he received a B.A. in English from Georgetown University. As a Rhodes Scholar, Porterfield earned a second B.A./M.A. from Hertford College, Oxford University. He was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at The City University of New York Graduate Center, which granted him a Ph.D. in 1995. His dissertation, which covered writers in captivity, received the Irving Howe Prize at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
In 1984 Porterfield founded the D.C. Schools Project, through which college students tutor immigrant or first-generation children and their parents in English-language skills. He was also instrumental in creating the After School Kids program in 1987, which trains college students to tutor at-risk youth in the District of Columbia. Both programs are currently run by the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University.
From 1993 to 1996 Porterfield served as a chief speechwriter and then Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (Policy & Strategy) for U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala.
Georgetown University president Leo J. O'Donovan recruited Porterfield to join the English faculty at his alma mater in 1997. He taught literature courses dealing with human rights, education, and social justice. In 2003, Porterfield received Georgetown’s Dorothy Brown Award for exemplary commitment to the educational advancement of students. He subsequently received the Georgetown College Edward Bunn, S.J., Award for Faculty Excellence and the School of Foreign Service Faculty Excellence Award.
Porterfield later served as Senior Vice President for Strategic Development at Georgetown. In this role he assisted President John J. DeGioia with the development of new projects and led Georgetown's institutional positioning, communications, government relations, community relations, and intercollegiate athletics. He spearheaded Georgetown’s relationship with Teach For America, KIPP, the D.C. public schools and The Cristo Rey Network. He also served as interim director of Georgetown's NCAA Division I athletics program from June 2009 to April 2010.
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