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William McKee
Professor, Education & Public Service Management
Degrees
B.S., University of Tennessee
M.Ed., Auburn University
Ed.D., University of Tennessee
Office Location: Bone Hall, Room 102
Office Hours: M&F (8:30-9:45 and 1:30-3); T&TR (10:30-11:30 and 1:30-3); W (8:30-11 and 1:30-3)
Phone: 615.547.1311
E-mail: bmckee@cumberland.edu
Degrees
B.S., University of Tennessee
M.Ed., Auburn University
Ed.D., University of Tennessee
Office Location: Bone Hall, Room 102
Office Hours: M&F (8:30-9:45 and 1:30-3); T&TR (10:30-11:30 and 1:30-3); W (8:30-11 and 1:30-3)
Phone: 615.547.1311
E-mail: bmckee@cumberland.edu
Dr. C. William (Bill) McKee is Professor of Education and Public Service Management and a long-time faculty member at Cumberland University. Previously, he served in a number of administrative posts at Cumberland including Executive Vice President and Dean and as an administrator at Georgia Southwestern State University.
His teaching responsibilities in the undergraduate program are History and Philosophy of Education, Introduction to Counseling, and School Counseling. At the graduate level, his courses include Contemporary Community Issues and Professional Communications.
Dr. McKee has recently published a book entitled North Edgefield Remembered…The Story of a Nashville Neighborhood, and he is currently involved in a variety of research projects including a biographical study of United States Supreme Court Justice Horace Harman Lurton (a Cumberland University graduate), Rear Admiral Fran McKee (the first woman appointed as an unrestricted Admiral in the United States Navy), and, with co-researchers Dr. W. Mark Tew of Howard Payne University and Dr. William Ritchie of Keiser University, a study on faculty development opportunities in institutions of higher education located in the southern region of the United States. Regularly, he serves as a higher education consultant, workshop leader, and presenter at both local and regional conferences.
Dr. McKee’s involvement in the campus community includes service as co-advisor to Alpha Lambda Delta (the freshman honor society), Omicron Delta Kappa (the national leadership honor society) and as Chairperson of the University Graduate Council.
Active in community affairs, he serves as the Chairperson of the 15th Judicial District Child Advocacy Center Board, as a Commissioner and Vice Chairperson of the Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County Historical Commission, as a Board Member of the historic Nashville City Cemetery Association and as an active member of the Tennessee Historical Society, the First Baptist Church of Nashville and the Rotary Club of Lebanon. Previous activities include serving as Foreperson of the Grand Jury of Davidson County, Tennessee.
A Nashville native, Dr. McKee earned the B.S. in Public Administration from the University of Tennessee, the M.Ed. in Counseling and Student Development from Auburn University and the Ed.D. in Adult and Higher Education from the University of Tennessee. Additionally, he is a graduate of the Carnegie-Mellon University Academic Leadership Institute, the American Council of Education/National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Stevens Institute on Leadership and Administration, and the University of Georgia Leadership Institute.
Publications
North Edgefield Remembered
Story of a Nashville Neighborhood
by Dr. C. William McKee
North Edgefield Remembered tells the story of an important, yet often overlooked and undervalued neighborhood. The book chronicles a community where citizens, religious and educational institutions, small businesses, manufacturing plants, social services agencies and public officials worked in concert to build a vibrant place to both work and live. In many ways, the story of North Edgefield emphasizes and parallels the growth of Nashville from a country town to a great city. This district is rich in history and historical people and events. Noted North Edgefield leaders from the past -- Tennessee Governor Neill Smith Brown, General William White, the Reverend John B. McFerrin, Nashville School Superintendent Joseph J. Keyes, author Beth Salter Whitson and newspaper editor/owner W.F. Bang -- welcome you, through the pages of North Edgefield Remembered, to their beloved neighborhood.
Story of a Nashville Neighborhood
by Dr. C. William McKee
North Edgefield Remembered tells the story of an important, yet often overlooked and undervalued neighborhood. The book chronicles a community where citizens, religious and educational institutions, small businesses, manufacturing plants, social services agencies and public officials worked in concert to build a vibrant place to both work and live. In many ways, the story of North Edgefield emphasizes and parallels the growth of Nashville from a country town to a great city. This district is rich in history and historical people and events. Noted North Edgefield leaders from the past -- Tennessee Governor Neill Smith Brown, General William White, the Reverend John B. McFerrin, Nashville School Superintendent Joseph J. Keyes, author Beth Salter Whitson and newspaper editor/owner W.F. Bang -- welcome you, through the pages of North Edgefield Remembered, to their beloved neighborhood.