Kent M. Keith
American writer and leader in higher education (born 1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kent M. Keith (born in 1949 in Brooklyn) is an American writer and leader in higher education.
Kent M. Keith | |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | Harvard College University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (JD) USC Rossier School of Education (EdD) |
Spouse | Elizabeth Keith |
Children | 3 |
Raised in Nebraska, California, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii, where he graduated from secondary school, Keith entered Harvard College to study government. After graduating, he read philosophy and politics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,[1] received his J.D. degree at Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and earned an Ed. D. from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.
His early career was as an attorney with Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright and then as Director of the State of Hawaii Department of Planning and Economic Development. He served as the President of Chaminade University from 1989 to 1995 and was then the Senior Vice President for the YMCA of Honolulu. From 2007 to 2012 he served as CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (US), and from 2012 to 2015 he served as CEO of the Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership (Asia) based in Singapore. In 2015, he became president of Pacific Rim Christian University in Honolulu.