Biography

Nick Swayne, Ph.D, is president of North Idaho College and is the former director of James Madison University's JMU X-Labs, a comprehensive academic innovation ecosystem which he co-founded, and which hosts classes on a range of topics, from unmanned systems to homelessness. Swayne has also served as the Executive Director of 4-Virginia, a collaborative partnership between eight universities in the state of Virginia. He periodically serves as faculty advisor for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows and co-founder of the Stanford Faculty Innovation Fellows. Swayne has published extensively on a variety of topics involving experiential learning, and innovation in higher education. Programs he founded and developed have been covered extensively in the Chronicle of Higher Education and New York Times.