College names Wise academic, student affairs VP

Anthony Wise has been named the new vice president of Academic and Student Affairs at Pellissippi State.

“After meeting and interviewing candidates, reviewing credentials and references, and soliciting input from individuals and the search committee,” said Allen Edwards, president, “I recommended to Chancellor Manning that Dr. Anthony Wise be appointed to the position.

“Dr. Wise has served the College well as a faculty member and as a department head and has conducted his duties as interim vice president over the past few months in an exemplary manner. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Wise agree to serve in this capacity, and, upon his appointment, I look forward to working with him in this new position.”

“It’s certainly a challenge that I look forward to,” Wise said of his new assignment. “I think this is a great college and a great community, and I welcome the opportunity to work with everyone here to respond to the needs of Knox and Blount counties as best we can.”

Wise began his career at the College as an instructor in 1998. He was the Liberal Arts department head from January 2004 until January of this year, when he took over as interim vice president of Academic and Student Affairs.

He received a bachelor’s degree in history and business economics from Wofford College in South Carolina in 1990, a master’s degree in United States history from Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1993 and a doctorate in history from the University of Tennessee in 1997.

He and his wife, Lynn, have three young children.

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