Jack R. Warner is executive director and chief
executive officer of the South Dakota Board of Regents. The
Board of Regents is the constitutional governing board for the
six public universities, the school for the deaf, and the school
for the blind and visually impaired in South Dakota.
Dr. Warner previously was commissioner of the Rhode Island Board
of Governors for Higher Education from 2002-2009, where he was
responsible for governance and policy oversight of Rhode Island’s
public system of higher education, consisting of the University
of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, and the Community College
of Rhode Island.
He has been an educator for more than 40 years, 32 of which
were in the Massachusetts public higher education system. He
was associate chancellor at the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth. Before that, he spent nearly five years as vice chancellor
of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, the state coordinating
board for 15 community colleges, nine state colleges, and five
campuses of the University of Massachusetts.
Dr. Warner spent 17 years as dean of student affairs at Bristol
Community College in Fall River, Mass. He is a past president
of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
(NASPA) and a former member of the New England Student Affairs
Think Tank. He taught in the Boston College Graduate School
of Education for 18 years.
He holds the following academic degrees:
• Doctor of Education in Educational Administration from
Boston College;
• Master of Education in Student Affairs Administration
in Higher Education from Springfield College;
• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of
Vermont.
Dr. Warner resides in Fort Pierre, S.D., with his wife, Celeste,
where he enjoys family activities, cycling, golf, and kayaking.
The couple has three children and three grandchildren.
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Jack
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Executive Director
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