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Embry-Riddle’s Robert Myers to Lead Daniel Webster College

Robert Myers Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 25, 2005 -- Robert “Skip” Myers, chancellor of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Extended Campus, has announced that he will be leaving the university to become the new president of Daniel Webster College starting July 1.

“My time at Embry-Riddle has been the most professionally rewarding and challenging leadership position I’ve enjoyed in 25 years in higher education,” Myers said in a message to the campus’s faculty and staff. “We’ve taken enormous strides in improving the quality and reach of what we do. It’s a testimony to the wide-ranging skills of the faculty and staff who make up the Extended Campus.”

Daniel Webster College, in Nashua, N.H., began as a flight-training school that evolved into an accredited four-year institution. It has been led by its founding president, Hannah McCarthy, for the past 25 years and offers bachelor degrees in aviation, aerospace, and other fields, as well as an MBA.

“We’re all pleased for Skip as he takes on this exciting new challenge,” said George Ebbs, Embry-Riddle president. “He’s done a terrific job at the Extended Campus and I know he’ll continue to break new ground at Daniel Webster.”

Myers, as chief academic and operational officer of the Extended Campus, Embry-Riddle’s adult and continuing-education campus, was responsible for maintaining academic quality and increasing enrollments at 130 teaching centers worldwide and for an online distance-learning program.

“It is nice that one of our own would be tapped for a key leadership role at another university,” said John Johnson, Embry-Riddle provost, chief academic officer. “It reflects positively on Skip Myers and on Embry-Riddle.”

Before joining Embry-Riddle in 2002, Myers was the executive vice president and chief operating officer of University of Maryland University College (UMUC), a worldwide university dedicated to adult students. He also served as UMUC’s interim president from 1998 to 1999.

Embry-Riddle, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering and meets the needs of students and industry through its educational, training, research, and consulting activities. Embry-Riddle educates more than 30,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Extended Campus at more than 130 teaching centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, and through distance learning.