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Biography
Dr. Everett Piper is an American university administrator. Since August 2002, he has been President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
Dr. Piper grew up in Hillsdale, Michigan. He earned his B.A. from Spring Arbor University. M.A. from Bowling Green State University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
Career
Piper was Vice President for Advancement at Grace College & Seminary in Indiana, then served as Dean of Students at Greenville College in Illinois. Before joining Oklahoma Wesleyan, Piper was vice president for student development at Spring Arbor University in Michigan.
Piper blogs at Politicalmavens.com and Bullypulpit.com and Crosswalk.com. Piper is a frequent radio commentator, appearing on Air America, KWON, KYFM, and KFAQ.
Piper is the author of the viral op-ed, "This is Not a Daycare, It's a University" and The Wrong Side of the Door: Why Ideas Matter (2009), a collection of his essays, republished by Camden House Books under the title, Why I Am a "Liberal" and Other Conservative Ideas.
In March of 2016, Dr. Piper received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Award for Academic Freedom at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).