W. Joseph “Joey” King ’93

 

Joey King is president of Presbyterian Pan American School.  Previously, he served as the 18th president of Lyon College. He also served as senior advisor to the president of Emory & Henry College. As executive director of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, he helped 138 liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology to become more strategic and innovative. Similarly, as vice president of innovation at Southwestern University, he focused on strategic opportunities. As executive director of Connexions (now OpenStax) at Rice University, he led the first large-scale open education initiative and the free textbook movement.

 

Dr. King is co-author, together with Dr. Brian Mitchell, of Leadership Matters: Confronting the Hard Choices Facing Higher Education, from Johns Hopkins University Press. Forbes named it one of the Top 10 higher education books of 2022.  Their first book, How to Run a College: A Practical Guide for Trustees, Faculty, Administrators, and Policy Makers, also from Johns Hopkins University Press, had positive reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Inside Higher Ed, and Oxford Magazine.  He is currently a distinguished presidential fellow at the Council on Library and Information Resources working on his third book for John Hopkins.  

 

In addition to his work in academe, Dr. King is a serial entrepreneur and research scientist. He was president of Zama Networks. He was also chief scientist of F5 Networks. He served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Tech Fort Worth. Formerly, he was a research scientist at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory at the University of Washington. He has also conducted research at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and Hughes Research Laboratories.

 

He serves on the advisory council of Stanford University Libraries. Formerly, Dr. King served on the boards of Southwestern University, Lyon College, Rice University Press, Council on Library and Information Resources, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Teachers Without Borders, Benaroya Research Institute, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet.

 

He holds a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction from the University of Washington. He holds a B.A. with honors in computer science and in experimental psychology from Southwestern University.