​McDaniel College names Josh Ambrose as new Executive Director of the Center for Experience and Opportunity (CEO)

Josh Ambrose has been named the new executive director of the Center for Experience and Opportunity (CEO) at McDaniel College.

In this newly created role at the college, he oversees the work of the CEO, its programs and initiatives, while working closely with academic departments, as well as community partners, and playing a key role in creating new experiential learning opportunities for McDaniel students.

Ambrose also coordinates The Encompass Distinction program in innovation and entrepreneurship and is the college’s Fulbright Program advisor.

He will continue to teach courses in the English department, including “Writing for Main Street” and “Writing for Nonprofit Organizations,” and advise student organizations.

Previously, Ambrose also served as the director of the McDaniel College Writing Center, where he worked closely with other departments on campus, such as First Stop for first-year and transfer students, Student Academic Support Services, international programs and Hoover Library.

He has been active in the Westminster community as a volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club of Westminster, the Cold Weather Shelter and the Carroll County Detention Center. He has worked with the Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory, Inc. (MAGIC) and the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the advisory panel for the Carroll Biz Challenge.

A resident of Westminster, Md., he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing–nonfiction from George Mason University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Penn State University.

For more information about the CEO, visit www.mcdaniel.edu/ceo.

Visit www.mcdaniel.edu for more information about McDaniel College.

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McDaniel College, founded in 1867 and nationally recognized as one of 40 “Colleges That Change Lives,” is a four-year, independent college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its personalized, interdisciplinary, global curriculum and student-faculty collaboration develop the unique potential in every student. A diverse, student-centered community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students, McDaniel offers access to the resources of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and is the only American college with a European campus in Budapest, Hungary. www.mcdaniel.edu