Dr. Brad J. Stewart

Vice President and Provost

Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus

 

Dr. Brad J. Stewart has served as Vice President and Provost of the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus of Montgomery College since May of 2005.  He has over twenty years of experience as a professor and administrator in higher education.  

 

From 1999 until 2005, he served as Campus Executive Officer and Dean at the University of Wisconsin at Waukesha, a two-year institution within the University of Wisconsin system.  Under his leadership, several capital projects were completed, including extensive renovations of the humanities and physical education buildings.  He partnered with faculty and staff to develop a vibrant academic program, including first year experience programming, service learning, and learning community initiatives. 

 

Prior to that, Dr. Stewart served as Associate Dean for Academic Advising and Special Programs at the University of St. Thomas (MN) and served as a faculty member in the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department.  At St. Thomas, he helped to initiate first year student learning communities, a service learning program, and several retention and student support initiatives.  Dr. Stewart also served as a professor at the University of North Dakota and Miami University in Middletown, Ohio.  

 

In 1997, he was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow where he received training in planning, budgeting, enrollment management, human resources, media relations, and campus climate issues. He is also an alumnus of Harvard’s Management Development Program and the City of Waukesha’s Citizen Police Academy.  He has published in the areas of juvenile crime prevention, effective pedagogy, and racial and ethnic stereotypes. 

 

Dr. Stewart earned his bachelors of arts in Sociology and English from William Penn College (1978) in Iowa and a master’s degree (1981) and doctorate (1987) from Iowa State University specializing in crime/delinquency and race and ethnic relations.

 

Dr. Stewart is committed to helping make the Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus of Montgomery College a place where faculty, staff and administrators work together to changes students’ lives.  He is also working to build relationships between the College and local businesses, community organizations, schools and other institutions of higher education.  He currently serves as Chair for the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce (2006-2007) and he was appointed to the Montgomery County Council’s Long Branch Citizens Advisory Board.

 

Dr. Stewart and his wife, Leslie, reside in Silver Spring.