Winnail, Scott D., Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs

B.S. Ed. (1992), University of Georgia; M.S.P.H. (1994), University of South Carolina; Ph.D. (1998), University of Alabama-Birmingham.

After four years in the full-time ministry in the US and Jamaica, Dr. Scott Winnail has returned to university service. He brings with him a dozen years of undergraduate and graduate teaching in the field of Public Health and Health Promotion & Education, as well as eight years of Bible-based teaching experience as a minister.

On the academic side, Dr. Winnail holds degrees in health promotion & education and also public health from the Universities of Georgia (BS Ed. 1992), South Carolina (MSPH 1994), and Alabama at Birmingham (Ph.D. 1998). He served as a faculty member at the University of Wyoming (UW), in the area of Health Education and Public Health (1998-2005, tenured). While at UW, Dr. Winnail worked at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of: teaching, design of program curricula, student advising, and direction of masters’ projects and theses. He also served on or chaired university committees at various levels, including in the areas of curricula, human subjects, and faculty and dean-level search committees. Dr. Winnail’s areas of research and publication have included: school health and coordinated school health programs, community development, community-based needs assessment, program evaluation, physical activity and nutrition, and parental involvement. Additionally while in Wyoming, Dr. Winnail worked closely with the Wyoming State Departments of Health and Education, many other state health organizations, and was also very active both at the state and national levels in the area of school health. Dr. Winnail has worked with curriculum development at the elementary and college, and graduate levels and has worked nationally with the National Health Standards development and implementation. Dr. Winnail began serving as adjunct faculty for Living University in Fall 2008.

On the “church” side, Dr. Winnail served as a minister for eight and a half years prior to returning to Charlotte to fill his new position. Four years of that service were spent as a full-time minister serving in the Church Administration Department for the Church’s international head quarters in Charlotte, NC (14 months), as area pastor in the South Eastern US (about 3 years), and serving church congregations in Jamaica (2 years).

When asked about his new responsibilities with Living University, Dr. Winnail replied, “I am excited by the new challenges and opportunities this position will present. I am eager to work directly with students as well as the Headquarters staff again and really look forward to helping build a quality educational experience that will benefit God’s Church and His Work in the short term and on into the future. I have learned a tremendous amount while working with and serving God’s people in church congregations and I look forward to bring that experience and learning, not only to the university classroom, but also to the planning process for the future of the University. This Living University position will be an exciting blend of my previous work in higher education and service as minister.”