by Hoyt Smith
National University System Chancellor Jerry C. Lee has announced the appointment of John F. Cady, Ph.D., as executive vice president for National University. Dr. Cady brings to this position his educational leadership background at Harvard, MIT and Duke universities, as well as his entrepreneurial experience as an innovator in adult education.About the appointment, Dr. Lee said, "National University provides relevant and accessible programs to anyone interested in the pursuit of knowledge. We make it a point to recruit the most-qualified, intelligent and capable people in the country to realize our vision. John Cady's professional and educational background makes him perfect for the job, and we are pleased to have him on board."
Prior to his appointment as executive vice president, Dr. Cady served at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, first as associate dean for executive education and then as associate dean for executive programs. He was responsible for the executive general management curriculum of the Fuqua School overseeing its portfolio of four regional and global executive MBA programs. He also led Fuqua's open enrollment and tailored non-degree executive programs. During Dr. Cady's tenure at Duke, the Financial Times ranked Fuqua's custom and open enrollment executive programs #1 in the world. At Fuqua he held the faculty rank of Professor of the Practice of Management and served as a scholar at Duke University's Center for Leadership and Ethics.
Before taking on responsibilities at Fuqua, Dr. Cady served as a founder and managing partner of the Boston-based Center for Executive Development (CED), a provider of senior-level customized executive education programs. His educational experience also includes 11 years as a faculty member at Harvard Business School, where he specialized in business strategy, public policy and marketing. Additionally, Dr. Cady served as senior lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, where he taught in MIT's Senior Executive Program and the Sloan Fellows' Program. He also served on the faculties of major international business schools including Keio University in Japan, Queens University in Canada, Witswatersrand in South Africa and INSEAD in France.
Referring to his current position, Dr. Cady stated, "National University offers innovative, highly relevant programs delivered through state-of-the-art instructional methods by a superb academic faculty. This powerful combination of capabilities provides students with access to educational opportunities that are unequaled. Moving forward, the faculty and administrative leadership of National plan to leverage these capabilities to reach an ever-growing population of adult learners and to continue to shape the nature of higher education in the 21st Century."
Dr. Cady has published 50 case studies on business strategy, planning and implementation and has authored articles in numerous research journals and other academic publications. Dr. Cady's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in economics, a Master of Business Administration and a Ph.D. in management from the State University of New York.
