Dr. David Schecter has been President of East Georgia State College (EGSC) since January, 2022. EGSC has roughly 1,800 students and is located in rural, southeast Georgia. Before coming to EGSC, Schecter served as Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, S.C.. Prior to serving at USC Upstate, Schecter served as Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs and then Vice Provost at California State University, Bakersfield. Before joining the administration at CSU Bakersfield, Schecter was chair of the Department of Political Science at California State University, Fresno where he was granted tenure as a full professor and earned the prestigious Provost’s Award for Faculty Service. He also previously taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A Florida native, Schecter holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida and both a master’s degree in political science and a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies and history from Florida State University. He also holds an MBA from Fresno State.