Dr. 杰梅因旋转, 阿斯彭研究员, 在全国范围内都受欢迎吗, award-winning authority in workforce and community college education. 他目前担任买世界杯app推荐(ATC)院长。, 佐治亚技术学院系统的一个单位. In his two and a half years as president he’s completed a full-rebrand of the institution, 实施新的五年战略规划, 建立了6个新的学术学院, established a new School of Health Sciences Campus at 萨默维尔 in partnership with Piedmont Augusta (the first and only two-year healthcare school operating in a hospital), became the first institution of higher education in Augusta to be selected an Amazon Choice Partner, established the 奥古斯塔的优势 Transfer Program with Augusta University (the most expansive transfer program in Georgia), 成立了吉姆·哈德森汽车研究所,000 square feet - the largest automotive training facility in Georgia), secured $45.5m in state funding to build a new 81,000 square feet advanced manufacturing & engineering technology training center in the region, established a $2.3 million incubator/microenterprise center in partnership with the Downtown Development Authority of Augusta, obtained the college’s first ever million dollar gift (raised $3m in 8 months), 获得了100万美元的礼物，以命名学院的第一所学术学院(T.R. 雷迪先进制造学院 & Engineering Technology) helped to recruit the largest freshmen class in the past three years (1,500名新生), and most recently partnered with Augusta National Golf Course (Master’s Tournament) and First Tee of Augusta to revitalize the Augusta Municipal Golf Course to establish the nation’s first corridor of golf education in partnership with the City of Augusta.
In the last year alone he’s been awarded the Paragon Award for new presidents from Phi Theta Kappa, 成功团队非营利组织颁发的年度风云人物奖, Soul Awakening Award of Excellence from Perry Broadcasting of Augusta, 进入了第二届年度泰坦100班, and was an inaugural member of the Georgia Trend 500 most influential leaders in Georgia. 他毕业于奥古斯塔行政领导论坛, 领导力哥伦比亚县, 弗曼大学多元化领导学院(DLI), 南卡罗莱纳州经济发展研究所, 格林维尔44班的领导力, 格威内特2016届毕业生. Dr. Whirl在地区和国家委员会任职, taskforces, 以及道明银行等组织的理事会, HERDI, 亚特兰大联邦储备银行, 昆士兰国家银行, 勇士联盟, 以及美国社区学院协会. Within the CSRA he serves on the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce Board, CSRA董事会的联合之路, CSRA区域委员会, 社区重用组织, 以及戈登堡的CSRA联盟. He also holds an honorary board membership with the Morris Museum of Art and is a member of the Rotary Club of Augusta.
在接受ATC主席一职之前. Whirl served as the Vice President for Learning and Workforce Development at Greenville Technical College. 在这个角色中, 他曾担任首席学术和继续教育官, and he was responsible for the leadership of the college’s credit and non-credit programs serving approximately 20,每年有5000名学生在5个校区学习. He also served as the college’s Vice President for 经济发展 and Corporate Training where he served as the official 经济发展 liaison to the Greenville Area Development Corporation, 北部SC联盟, and the SC Department of Commerce helping to recruit over 20 companies over a four-year span. Dr. Whirl holds the special distinction of being the first and only chief academic officer in the SC Technical College System to author a bachelor’s degree with full approval by the SC Commission on Higher Education.
Additional administrative experience includes serving Gwinnett Technical College as Dean of both the School of Business Sciences and School of Art & Design; Dean of 成人教育 at Savannah Technical College; full-time faculty member within the Parker College of Business Administration at Georgia Southern University, 也是东乔治亚州立学院的全职教员. Dr. Whirl also held adjunct faculty positions at Charleston Southern University, 南大学, 以及Toccoa Falls College的工商管理专业, economics, 和领导能力. His higher education career began at Winthrop University where he first served as a tutor to provisionally admitted students in the LEAP program, and he then served in the office of alumni relations where he led the student alumni council.
一个查尔斯顿, South Carolina native and second-generation technical college graduate, he earned his associate of arts degree at Trident Technical College, 温斯洛普大学的经济学学士学位, a Master of Business Administration degree at Charleston Southern University, 第二成人教育硕士学位 & 佐治亚南方大学社区领导, and a doctorate in organizational leadership at Valdosta State University.