SUNY Fredonia appoints new chief of graduate studies
Dr. Kevin P. Kearns will bring more than 25 years of service in graduate-level education and administration to SUNY Fredonia as the new Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research.
Prior to joining SUNY Fredonia, Dr. Kearns was affiliated with MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, for eight years, most recently as interim academic dean, as well as professor and director of the graduate program in communication sciences and disorders. Other positions held concurrently included faculty affiliate at Harvard-MIT’s division of health sciences and technology and senior research associate in the autism language program at Children’s Hospital of Boston.
Previously, Dr. Kearns was chairman and associate professor in the Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Department at Northeastern University, Boston, for 10 years. He was also chief of audiology and pathology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, North Chicago, and adjunct associate professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and Chicago Medical School.
Additionally, he was a supervisor in speech pathology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and clinical assistant professor at Louisiana State University Medical Center, both in New Orleans. His inaugural teaching appointment was at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City.
Dr. Kearns earned his doctorate in speech-language pathology from the University of Kansas, a master’s in communication disorders from Saint Louis University, and a bachelor’s in speech-language pathology at SUNY Buffalo.
