William
Sipple
, Ph.D.
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Department:
Academic Affairs
Location:
Deepwood Hall
Degrees
BA, St. Mary's University: MA, Gannon Unviversity; Ph.D. Duquesne University
Contact
Phone: 413.565.1344
Fax: 413.565.1041
Email: wsipple@baypath.edu
Profile
William L. Sipple, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Communications and English, Bay Path College, and formerly Professor and Dean of the School of Communications and Information Systems, Robert Morris University (Pennsylvania), has more than 40 years of experience in college teaching, higher education administration, media production, and technology/information management and consulting.
At both Robert Morris University and Bay Path College he led such curricular projects as the communications and information technology skills program (a sequence of nine courses focused on reading/interpreting texts, writing, information literacy, presenting and using support technologies, listening, and intercultural communications, as well as specific rhetorical skills for business and the professions); accelerated degree programs for adult and traditional learners; and master and doctoral level programs in communications, information management, business, education, and information technology for working professionals. He teaches regularly on the graduate level.
His publications focus on rhetoric, communications, technology issues, media management, higher education, and Renaissance literature (Edmund Spenser). He has produced award-winning television projects for PBS, corporations, nonprofit organizations and education, being recognized with Telly Awards, New York Festival Awards, International CINDY Competition Awards, American Videographer Awards, and others. His doctorate is from Duquesne University and he has completed post-doctoral programs at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of WGBY Public Television (Springfield, MA), the marketing committee for the Springfield Museums, and on a project advisory board for Connecticut Public Television, as well as represents Bay Path College on the Hartford/Springfield Knowledge Corridor Project with the Regional Economic Development Council.
