Harvard educator named Marist Trustee

(Poughkeepsie) - “ Dr. James P. Honan, co-chair of Harvard’s Institute for Educational Management, will join the Marist Board of Trustees in February for a three-year renewable term.

Honan, a 1978 Marist graduate, has served on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1991. He has been a faculty member in a number of Harvard’s executive education programs and professional development institutes for educational leaders and nonprofit administrators.

Honan’s teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit and education organizations, strategic planning, organizational performance measurement and management issues, and higher education administration. He is the author or co-author of several publications including Monitoring Institutional Performance, for the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities; and New Yardsticks for Measuring Financial Distress, with Kent Chabotar, for the American Association for Higher Education. Honan received the Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award from the Harvard University Extension School in 1995.

Honan is a member of the board of directors of the Plan for Social Excellence, Inc., a private foundation based in Tampa, Florida, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Fitchburg State College and Dana Hall School in Massachusetts. In addition to receiving a bachelor’s degree in communications from Marist, he also holds an M.A. and Ed.S. in higher education from George Washington University, and an Ed.M. and Ed.D. in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University.