Interim President, Dr. Stanley (Stas) Preczewski
Dr. Stanley (Stas) Preczewski, vice president for academic and student affairs at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), assumed the role of Georgia College Interim President on July 1, 2011.
Preczewski has been vice president at Georgia Gwinnett since its founding in 2006. He was responsible for overseeing GGC’s process for initial regional accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which was achieved in 2009; and also helped GGC obtain initial Federal Financial Aid approval. He supervised the hiring of more than 500 faculty and academic staff.
Preczewski serves on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia’s Task Force on Retention and Graduation Rates and the system’s Council on General Education. He also currently serves on the State Task Force on Gates Foundation Initiatives.
Named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow, Preczewski spent the 2003-2004 academic year assigned to Wake Forest University to develop a strategic initiative to provide a multi-million dollar permanent increase in revenue.
Prior to joining Georgia Gwinnett, Preczewski was vice dean for resources at the United States Military Academy, West Point, serving as the chief financial officer for academic programs. At West Point, he also served as associate dean for plans and resources, program director for engineering psychology and associate professor of behavioral sciences. His research interests are in the study of life-long learning among adults.
He coached intercollegiate rowing at Cornell, Wake Forest and West Point, placing teams in the finals of league and national championships. He raised millions of dollars to construct West Point’s first boathouse. Preczewski’s coaching was featured in Fortune Magazine for a 2003 Harvard Business School case study, “Army Crew Team,” that led to corporate presentations on team building.
Preczewski earned a doctorate specializing in higher and adult education, educational psychology and cognitive psychology from the University of Missouri in 1997. He earned a Master of Arts degree in strategic planning from the United States Naval War College in 1998 and a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of Massachusetts in 1987. A native of New Jersey, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in agricultural engineering and economics in 1980, receiving recognition as the Distinguished Military Graduate for the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and his commission in the US Army.
Preczewski resides in Buford, Ga., with his wife of 30 years, Jean. They have three children: Kristen (27), Michael (26) and David (24), all currently serving as Army officers.
