Bryan Winters

With thirty years of experience across the PK12 to higher education space, Dr. Winters has held numerous teaching and administrative positions. He currently serves as a clinical assistant professor, program director for the Master of School Administration program and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Specialties. His experiences in PK12 have included serving as a health and physical education and science teacher, department chair, high school baseball coach and in an array of school-based administrative roles at elementary, middle and high schools as well as director of an alternative school.

During his time at UNCP, Dr. Winters has proudly served the university in a wide range of roles. Prior to chairing the Department of Educational Leadership and Specialties, he held positions in the School of Education and the College of Health Sciences. In the School of Education, he served as the director of University-School Partnerships and liaison to Military Science. He later served in the College of Health Sciences as department chair of Kinesiology (formerly the Department of Health and Physical Education), program director for the Master of Arts in Physical Education, program coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in Health and Physical Education and program coordinator for the Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sport Science programs, which includes Exercise Physiology, Recreation and Sport Administration and Health Promotion.

Dr. Winters’s teaching, research and service focus on educational policy, law and ethics. His work is reflected by membership and contributions to multiple university and state-level stakeholder groups. He currently serves on the University Athletic Committee and the Council of Educator Preparation Programs Policy Committee. He also serves on the North Carolina Superintendent’s Ethics Committee and represents UNCP on the UNC Faculty Assembly. He has been appointed to select taskforces and advisory boards including recent service on the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s Taskforce on Principal Standards and Evaluation and the MSA Advisory Board for Fayetteville State University. Dr. Winters is also a member of North Carolina Professors of Educational Leadership, Personnel Administrators of North Carolina and the North Carolina Association of School Administrators.

Dr. Winters earned a Bachelor of Science in Health and Physical Education with an academic concentration in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He also studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Western Carolina University and Fayetteville State University, where he earned both a Master of School Administration and a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership.