Citadel Foundation executive earns doctoral degree
February 29, 2016
CHARLESTON, SC – The Citadel Foundation proudly announces that Chief Executive Officer John P. (Jay) Dowd III, has earned the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Educational Administration, with a cognate in Public Administration, from the University of South Carolina.
Dowd currently serves as the CEO of The Citadel Foundation and Vice President for Institutional Advancement at The Citadel in Charleston. Previously he served as Vice President for Development and Executive Director of the Francis Marion University Education Foundation. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Winthrop University in 1989 and a Master of Education degree from USC in 1993.
Dowd’s degree and doctoral hood were conferred upon him during a ceremony at the Koger Center for the Arts on the campus of USC in December 2015.
His doctoral thesis, titled Understanding Generosity at Military Colleges and Universities: Characteristics and Motivations of Major
Donors at the Federal Service Academies and Senior Military Colleges, examined the philanthropic motivations of major benefactors who attended the federal service academies or the six senior military colleges and universities in the United States.
His findings will be shared with the participating institutions to help them better understand their alumni base. The research will also help determine whether there are differentiating characteristics among the donors at the aforementioned schools in comparison to the existing research on donor motivations among alumni of other institutions of higher education.
A native of Bennettsville, South Carolina, Dowd is the son of Barry G. and Ronald Webster of Roanoke, Virginia, and J.P. Dowd, Jr., of Bennettsville. He is the grandson of the late John Milby and Elizabeth Ricaud Gibson, and the late John Paul and Mary Davis Dowd, all of Bennettsville.
