It’s Dr. Drimmer's  goal to advance Cleary’s distinctive mission based on being flexible, affordable, and career-focused for traditional and non-traditional students alike. He is most excited to raise awareness with students and employers for the Cleary Mind™ initiative, which threads critical workplace competencies in the classroom and across the entire student experience. 

In previous roles, Dr. Drimmer served as Provost at National Defense University, Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President at the University of Maryland Global Campus and the University of Phoenix, and President at Western International University and American InterContinental University. Over the years, he has been active with institutional accreditors including the Higher Learning Commission, the Southern Association for Colleges and Schools and the Middle States Commission for Higher Education.

Dr. Drimmer has also been a Senior Advisor in the Boston Consulting Group’s education practice, and early in his career served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has experience in corporate training and workforce development, having led the Learning and Development Roundtable at the Corporate Executive Board, a consortium of Chief Learning Officers at Fortune 500 companies.

With BA, MA and PhD degrees in political science from the University of Chicago, Dr. Drimmer also earned an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania where he was a Gruss Scholar. He was a National Security Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs and won a prestigious Derek Bok Undergraduate Teaching Award at Harvard College.

Dr. Drimmer has two adult children – one who is a physicist in Zurich, Switzerland, and another who is a textbook editor in New York City. He is an avid traveler, cyclist, wine enthusiast, and baseball fan. In addition, he speaks French and is pursuing scholarly research on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

For this most recent discussion they cover the following questions:

1- Tell us about your background?

2- Why did you choose to lead Cleary University?

3- What is the history/origin of Cleary in Howell.

4- What are the long-term growth goals for Cleary?

5- What do you want Cleary to be known for academically? Business, health sciences, something else?

6- What roll does athletics play at Cleary?

7- What is Cleary's roll in the community?

8- What has been your biggest challenge so far at Cleary?

9- What do you want the country to know about Cleary?

10- What do you want high school seniors to know about Cleary?

11- How do you want to be remembered?

12- Rate the job we in the media do at covering higher education. How can we better?

12- Rate the job we in the media do at covering Cleary University? How can we be better?