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GROVE CITY, Pa. – As The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College begins its first full academic year of operations, Dr. Paul Kengor, associate professor of political science, will serve as its executive director. Kengor was appointed by College President Richard Jewell ’67 last April during the Center’s inaugural conference, “The Road From Poverty to Freedom.”

“At just 38 years old, Kengor has a remarkable and important history of scholarship,” Jewell said. “We are fortunate to have Paul in the classroom and at the same time providing leadership for The Center for Vision & Values.”

Kengor has many years of think tank experience and is a prolific writer and author of four books. He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University and has also done work for a number of think tanks, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation and the Shenango Institute. Kengor is on the board of advisors of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy and has served on the editorial board of Presidential Studies Quarterly. He is the author of four books, including “God and Ronald Reagan” (2004), which made bestseller lists for The New York Times, BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, and Christian Retailing, among others. “God and George W. Bush” (2005) reached No. 5 on Amazon’s non-fiction list.

Kengor’s latest book, “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan’s Effort to End the Soviet Union,” will be published early next year. His first work, “Wreath Layer or Policy Player: The Vice President’s Role in Foreign Policy,” was published in 2000. He is currently working on the official biography of President Reagan’s national security adviser, Judge William P. Clark, to be published by Ignatius Press. Kengor also co-edited “Assessing the Reagan Presidency” with Peter Schweizer in 2005.

Frequently quoted or published in news publications, Kengor’s editorials and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, World Magazine, New York Post, National Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Newsday, Political Science Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Washington Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Boston Herald, Wall Street Journal, Christianity Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, National Catholic Reporter and many others.

Kengor is also a frequent contributor to MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, PCN and Fox News. He has appeared on many TV shows, including “Hannity & Colmes,” “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Tony Snow Live,” “Fox & Friends,” “The 700 Club” and “Scarborough Country.” He has been featured on hundreds of radio shows, talking with Sean Hannity, Diane Rehm, Michael Reagan, Janet Parshall, D. James Kennedy, Michael Medved, G. Gordon Liddy, Linda Chavez, Jim Quinn, Greg Koukl and Laura Ingraham.

Additionally, Kengor is a frequent public speaker. His venues have included the National Presbyterian Church, the Reagan Library, the U.S. Capitol Building, the Commonwealth (of Pennsylvania) Prayer Breakfast, the Heritage Foundation, the Gerald R. Ford Library and the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He has also spoken at many colleges, including the University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary, Ave Maria College, Calvin College, Franciscan University, Regent University, Claremont McKenna College, Saint Vincent College, Patrick Henry College and the University of Pittsburgh.

Kengor will work half-time teaching political science while leading The Center for Vision & Values. He received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and his master’s degree from American University’s School of International Service. A western Pennsylvania native, Kengor resides in Grove City with his wife, Susan, and four children.

Grove City College is listed as one of the Most Competitive colleges in the nation by Barron’s. In its category, Grove City College is also ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 1 Best Value and No. 3 overall in the 2006 guide to America’s Best Colleges. Grove City College has also been called a “best value” and a “hidden treasure” by guidance counselors in the Kaplan National High School Guidance Counselor Survey, and is also the No. 16 Best Bargain school according to the Princeton Review. Founded in 1876, it is located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa. With an enrollment of 2,300 students, it is a private Christian college teaching the liberal arts, sciences and engineering. It is an advocate of the free market economic system and accepts no federal funding. Tuition is about half of the national average for private colleges.

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