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Fred Winter

	Fred Winter

Frederick A. Winter is the senior director of advancement and leadership development at AAC&U. He received his B.A. in classical Greek language from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania.

In his role as senior director, Winter will oversee advancement efforts in support of AAC&U’s LEAP initiative and its other strategic priorities. In addition, Winter will serve as a member of the LEAP leadership team and will work with the president and other senior staff to develop national leadership to ensure an expanding pool of champions for liberal education -- including influential leaders from the business and philanthropic communities as well as from across all parts of AAC&U’s membership.

Before coming to AAC&U, Winter was a senior program officer in the Office of Challenge Grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). When he joined the Endowment in 1993, he was a tenured professor of classics with a joint appointment in the doctoral program in classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the undergraduate program at Brooklyn College. At Brooklyn College, he served as chair of the college’s Faculty Council Core Curriculum Committee, which was responsible for the administration of the college's undergraduate Core Curriculum, a thirteen course program required of all the college's 15,000 undergraduates. His research and publications have focused on the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in Greece, the final prehistoric Celtic era in southeastern Europe, and the Hellenistic period in the eastern Mediterranean. He has directed archaeological excavations in Cyprus, Israel, the United States, and Yugoslavia, and he has also participated in excavations in Hawaii, Greece, and Turkey.

At NEH, Dr. Winter served initially in the Endowment’s Higher Education in the Humanities Program where his programmatic responsibilities focused on projects involving core curricula and the use of emerging technologies in undergraduate education. Dr. Winter joined the Office of Challenge Grants in 1995. Within that office, Dr. Winter worked with higher education applicants, as well as historical societies and sites, museums, and public media centers. He was the founding coordinator for the NEH We the People Challenge Grants in American History, Institutions and Culture, and he served on the NEH task force for its Digital Humanities Initiative. He has also designed and administered special federal granting programs for American minority institutions, including historically black, Hispanic-serving, and American Indian colleges and universities, and he was part of the NEH team that provided funding for the restoration of cultural programs in Iraq.