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For more than two decades, Dr. Dean
L. Hubbard has focused on enhancing student achievement through
university-wide process improvement – a management philosophy
that has blossomed into Northwest’s award-winning Culture
of Quality.
Under Dr. Hubbard’s guidance, Northwest became the first
public university in the nation to create a fully networked “electronic
campus” based on the concept that “students come first.”
More recently, the University has won two Missouri Quality Awards
and qualified twice for site visits by Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award evaluators.
Dr. Hubbard has long been a champion of programs that promote
greater access to higher education, such as Northwest’s
pioneering American Dream Grant, a needs-based initiative that
provides tuition, room, board, books and a computer to students
from lower-income families.
Other initiatives include further development of the partnership
with Ventria Bioscience, one of the world’s leading biotechnology
companies. A new bioscience center being created on the Northwest
campus will result in academic opportunities for students in addition
to economic growth across the state and region.
An educator with broad international experience, Dr. Hubbard lived
in Seoul, Korea, from 1966 to 1971 and helped develop language
programs in six countries. In addition to extensive work in Asia,
he has served as a consultant to educational institutions in Europe
and Central America and sits on the board of the Alliance of Universities
for Democracy.
Prior to coming to Northwest, Dr. Hubbard served as president
of Union College, in Lincoln, Neb., and earned degrees from Stanford
University, Yonsei University and Andrews University.
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