ETV American Graduate Summit Keynote
55 views · Published 18 January 2012 · 18:34 · Indexed 19 October 2026
Channel: South Carolina ETV · 2012 · Education
Keynote address from the ETV American Graduate Summit: "We Have A Vision, But Do We See?" Held October 18th, 2011 Dr. Sam Drew, Executive Director, National Dropout Prevention Center/Network Dr. Sam Drew's career in education spans 39 years and includes the positions of teacher; school principal; special assistant in the United States Department of Education; Deputy Director of Education in the SC Governor's Office; Superintendent of a state residential alternative school; and Superintendent of a county school system in SC. Dr. Drew served as State Director of Adult and Community Education in South Carolina for eight years before joining the Adult Literacy Media Alliance in New York as Director of State Partnership Development. In July of 2002, he joined the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University as Associate Director for Research and Evaluation. Currently he serves as the Interim Executive Director of NDPC. Dr. Drew holds a B.S. degree in Psychology, a M.Ed. degree in Elementary Education and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration. He serves on many national, state and local boards, committees and workgroups. He speaks and conducts workshops around the country and internationally in the areas of dropout prevention, service learning and community partnership development. He is co-host of a monthly radio webcast, Solutions to the Dropout Crisis, broadcast from Clemson University. His latest publication, Bouncing Back, is a monograph on building youth resiliency. To see more videos from the ETV American Graduate initiative, visit the ETV American Graduate Playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30550CDFAB758ECE or go to the ETV American Graduate website: http://scetv.org/americangraduate/ Also, visit us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/etvamericangraduate
