About the Author Thomas R. McDaniel is Senior Vice President and Professor of Education at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. A magna cum laude graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, he holds three graduate degrees, including the Ph.D., from The Johns Hopkins University. From 1971 to the present he has served Converse in a variety of positions, including Chair of the Department of Education, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Acting Dean of the School of Education and Graduate Studies, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Provost, and Interim President. In 1984 he was named t...