Clifford Humphrey is the Executive Vice Chancellor in the Division of Florida Colleges at the Florida Department of Education. In 2020, he received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College. He then helped found Thales College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and also taught moral philosophy and rhetoric at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. Before graduate school, he spent two years teaching classical languages, philosophy, and rhetoric at Trinitas Christian School in Pensacola, Florida. He has written on the topics of classical education, higher education, Christian religion, and American politics at various publications including American Reformer and First Things. He is originally from Warm Springs, Georgia.
Join Clifford Humphrey at this year’s Leader’s Day pre-conference.
Leadership as “Compelling Human Excellence”
Interest in the topic of “leadership” as a peculiar technique exploded in the latter half of the 20th century, and with it, a perverting of the traditional understanding of what leadership really is. The rise of the classical education movement is itself a recognition of this perversion and an attempt to recover a right understanding of education for preeminence in community and civic life. This talk will provide you with the information you need to avoid accepting unwanted, corrupting premises about leadership and enable you both to practice and to help educate your students and staff to pursue real leadership as compelling human excellence.