Dr. William P. Anderson
Provost & Vice Pres. for Academic Affairs

Dr. William P. Anderson serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Grove City College.

Anderson first served the campus community from 1987 to 1998 in several capacities, including acting chairman and assistant professor of sociology, assistant to the dean and associate professor of sociology, acting dean and vice president for academic affairs, and dean of the School of Arts and Letters.

After leaving Grove City in 1998, Anderson joined the administrative faculty at Belhaven College in Jackson, Miss., and served as vice provost and dean of the graduate school from 1999-2001, where he was responsible for graduate programs, faculty recruitment, general education in the Christian worldview curriculum, on-line education, adult degrees and institutional research. He returned to Grove City College in 2001.

In the 1980s, the Memphis, Tenn., native, served as chairman of the division of business administration and economics at Tennessee’s Lambuth College, as well as assistant professor sociology and business. At Lambuth, he received the Billie P. Exum Jr. Outstanding Educator Award for Exceptional Teaching.

At Grove City, Anderson helped coordinate the current civilization series of the core curriculum, which comprises each student’s required humanities courses. Anderson, named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers in 1998, was also awarded the Kappa Delta Pi Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996. He has served as a doctoral mentor and received a certificate of achievement for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession of Teaching and the Field of History of Education from Northern Illinois University in 1994. In 2010, Anderson returned to teaching as a part-time professor of sociology and currently teaches a section of Foundations of Sociology.

Prior to his years at Lambuth, Anderson taught sociology at the University of Connecticut. Anderson earned his B.A. from Lambuth and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, where he received a University of Connecticut Research Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. He has been published in Social Psychology Quarterly, Contemporary Sociology, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and Vitae Scholasiticae.

An accomplished writer and editor, Anderson’s academic interests include organizational theory and behavior, crime and deviance, sociological theory, research methods and statistics, and urban and social problems. Outside of the classroom, he has experience in the world of business as a market research analyst for Connecticut Bank & Trust; as a market researcher for Pat Woods, Inc. in Memphis; and as a research assistant at The Roper Center, Institute of Social Inquiry at the University of Connecticut.

Anderson and his wife, Kathryn, a part-time professor of English at Grove City College, have three daughters, Julia, Shelby and Anna.

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