 |
 Dr. V. James Mannoia, Jr.
assumed his role as 10th president of Greenville
College on January 1, 1999. He came to Greenville from Houghton
College in Houghton, NY, where he had served as academic vice president
and dean of the college since 1993. With extensive backgrounds in
two very different areas, science and philosophy, Dr. Mannoia brings
to the presidency a unique perspective on higher education, administration
and teaching.
Dr. Mannoia has local connections. After earning a Bachelor of
Science degree in Physics from MIT in Boston, he attended St. Louis
University and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Washington
University in St. Louis, all during the 1970s. He was a graduate
fellow in Philosophy at SLU and a Reichenbach Fellow at Washington
University. Dr. Mannoia also taught part-time at Greenville College
from 1972 to 1974.
During his professional career Dr. Mannoia has held assistant professorships
in both Physics and Philosophy, as well as full professorships at
Houghton and Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. He has also
served as department chair, academic dean, and academic vice president.
Dr. Mannoia's areas of administrative interest include character
development, student development, cross-cultural international relations,
and application in an educational setting of scriptural and theological
concepts. His academic interests include Philosophy of Science,
Process Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Education.
He has written numerous articles for professional journals and popular
periodicals, and has authored two books, What
Is Science: An Introduction to the Structure and Methodology of
Science (1980, University Press, Washington, D.C.) and Christian
Liberal Arts: An Education That Goes Beyond (2000, Rowman
& Littlefield).
Dr. Mannoia grew up in the Free Methodist tradition and is an ordained
elder in this denomination.
Dr. Mannoia and his wife, Ellen, have been married for more than
25 years. They have two grown children.
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