约翰·C. 克纳普,Ph值.D.是华盛顿的第13任总统 & det365app, one of America’s oldest and most distinguished liberal arts institutions, 成立于1781年. He also serves as a professor of religion in the college’s Department of Philosophy.

Dr. 克纳普 is an internationally known author and speaker with leadership experience spanning the 教育, 非营利性的, 以及商业部门. 在加入W之前&J in 2017, he was president of Hope College in Holland, Mich., where he led the development and implementation of a 10-year strategic plan to enhance academic quality, 校园的多样性, 员工的发展, 以及学生毕业后的成绩.

以前, he was the founding director of Samford University’s Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership, concurrently serving as University Professor and holding an endowed professorship. He directed a wide range of programs and supported teaching and scholarship in the schools of the arts, 艺术与科学, 业务, 神性, 教育, 法律, 护理与药学.

在加入桑福德之前，Dr. 克纳普 served as professor and director of the Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility at Georgia State University’s J. 麦克罗宾逊商学院. The Center was established under his leadership in 1993 as the independent Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, a leading executive 教育 resource for leaders seeking to strengthen ethics and integrity in organizations. 他的课程有20多人参加,000 executives and managers from hundreds of corporations, 政府机构, 非营利组织和专业公司.

Dr. 克纳普’s philosophy of liberal arts 教育 extends to the value he places on diversity and inclusion. 在霍普学院, where he achieved annual goals for greater student diversity while also raising the academic profile of incoming classes, 他受到学院学生的尊敬, faculty and alumni for fostering a culture of inclusion, 尊重和支持, especially for students and employees from underrepresented groups. 在亚特兰大的时候, he founded and led the 多样性 管理 Network, 一个五年, grant-funded consortium involving leaders of more than 40 of the region’s largest employers. His diversity advocacy was recognized in 2013 with the Urban League’s Multicultural Friendship Award in Birmingham, 阿拉巴马州.

作为高等教育同行中的领军人物. 克纳普 chairs The Oxford Conclave on Global Higher Education, a retreat for college and university presidents held annually England’s University of Oxford. He also has served twice as chair of The New York Times Presidents Council, a representative group of private college presidents who meet with the newspaper’s higher 教育 reporters for background discussions of issues facing institutions and the industry. 除了, he serves on the boards of the Council of Independent Colleges, American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities, 克莱姆森大学的Robert J. 拉特兰伦理研究所, and the Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts, 还有其他几个高等教育协会.

Dr. 克纳普’s scholarship includes numerous articles and five books, including the three-volume The Business of Higher Education. His work as a scholar was recognized in 2009 when he was named a fellow of the Caux Round Table; in 2007 with his induction into the Martin Luther King Jr. International Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College; in 2001 with the Georgia Governor's Award in the Humanities; and in 1995 with Columbia Theological Seminary’s Florrie Wilkes Sanders Prize in Theology. In 2013, Hope College awarded him the honorary Doctor of Letters degree.

Earlier in his career he served for more than a decade as president of an Atlanta-based corporate communication firm. 在此期间, Atlanta Business Chronicle twice recognized him as the region’s leading crisis management consultant; Business Atlanta (now Georgia Trend) selected him for its list of the “40 Under 40” successful young executives; and Outstanding Atlanta Foundation named him one of the “Ten Outstanding Young People of Atlanta.”

Dr. 克纳普 earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theology and religious studies at the University of Wales, 联合王国. 在2022年，大学选择了博士. 克纳普 as one of 200 outstanding alumni of the last 200 years to feature in a collection of short biographies celebrating the 200th anniversary, 或成功, 这所大学历史悠久的兰彼得校区. Dr. 克纳普的传记被列在 威尔士大学三一圣大卫网站 在“学术界."

Dr. 克纳普 also holds a Master of Arts degree in theological studies at Columbia Theological Seminary; and a Bachelor of Science degree in urban life with a concentration in communication at Georgia State University. He and his wife, Kelly, have five adult children: Amanda, Tracy, Charlie, Mary and Ron. 他们有六个孙子.