A native Chicagoan, Timothy Joseph Duszynski joins the Institute of Cultural Affairs in the USA (ICA-USA) as its Director of National Programs. He is a forward-looking leader with thirty years’ experience as a consultant, college teacher and administrator.  As president, he led the turnaround of two private colleges:  Kansas Newman College (now Newman University, the Catholic College in Wichita, KS); and The National College of Naturopathic Medicine (Portland, OR, the oldest accredited institution of integrative health in North America). 

He was a founding administrator of Abu Dhabi University, the first Arab-owned and –managed private U.S.-style accredited university in the Gulf Region; and of Ellis College, an online collaboration between New York Institute of Technology and Cardean Learning Group LLC (consortium of five graduate business schools:  Stanford U, University of Chicago, Columbia U, Carnegie-Mellon U, and London School of Economics and Political Science).  

Timothy has significant experience in initiating, developing, and marketing for both for-profit (e.g., transportation and health care industries) and non-profit organizations.  He has led certification initiatives and regulatory compliance.  Timothy earned his Ph.D. and master’s degrees (English) at Illinois State University; his A.B. (English and music) at the University of Illinois-Chicago; and post-graduate certificates in education management (Harvard) and integrative health (Mercy College of Health Sciences-Global Health and Learning Institute, IA).  Timothy has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Iowa, and a Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has one son who is a college junior.