McCurry Leads Distance Education Efforts at USC Upstate
July 27, 2015
SPARTANBURG, SC – Dr. David S. McCurry is the director of distance education at the University of South Carolina Upstate where he is leading the planning, development, and administration of all online programs through the Office of Distance Education. McCurry also serves as the campus coordinator for USC Palmetto College.
“Dr. McCurry brings more than 35 years of professional experience in educational technology, media and international educational development to USC Upstate,” said Dr. Clif Flynn, interim senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at USC Upstate. “His level of expertise is critical as the University is expanding online education to serve the needs of increasing numbers of adult and professional degree seekers. Dr. McCurry will be expanding and developing the role of online learning in the academic programs at the USC Upstate Greenville Campus by working in conjunction with the University Center Greenville.”
McCurry previously directed the distance education program at Converse College and was a tenured faculty member of Monmouth University in New Jersey. McCurry was a Fulbright Lecturer in Malawi under the U.S. Information Agency Teacher-Text-Technology initiative and lived in Africa over nine years at various points in his career, as a Peace Corps volunteer and a senior technical advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. McCurry worked for the Teaching Learning and Technology Group, directing weekly online programming for more than 100 institutions in higher education.
He earned his master’s and doctorate degrees from the Center for International Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
For more information, contact Dr. David S. McCurry, director of distance education, at [email protected] or (864) 503-5509.
