Daniel Barwick

Barwick resigned as President of ICC in June 2019.

Barwick played a minor role as himself in the 2018 and 2019 seasons of the Netflix Emmy-nominated documentary series Last Chance U, which featured Independence Community College, receiving positive reviews.

Barwick was named by Ingram's Business Magazine as one of the "Fifty Kansans You Should Know" in 2016. In 2017, he was elected President of the Council of Presidents, the Kansas-wide group of community college presidents. During the 2017-2018 fiscal year in which he represented Kansas Community Colleges, community college funding statewide received its first increase in eight years. Also in 2017, he was named a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow.

Before becoming President of Independence Community College in 2011, he was Associate Professor of philosophy and Director of Institutional Advancement at Alfred State College, Executive Director of that college's Development Fund, and held a number of other administrative positions there. He was awarded the first system-wide Provost Fellowship in the State University of New York, and served as an Academic Policy and Planning Evaluation Associate for that system.

He has published and lectured on higher education, and was the President of the New York State Association of Scholars, and President of the American Association for Learning Outcomes Assessment. From 2008-2018, Barwick was certified by CFRE International, a provider of professional certification of fundraising proficiency.

Barwick is the author of the book Intentional implications : the impact of a reduction of mind on philosophy, published by University Press of America in 1994. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 95 libraries. He is also the author of fourteen articles and chapters, primarily on educational administration and his philosophical interests, which include ethics, cognitive science, and metaphysics.

Barwick was born in New Hartford, New York, and raised in Utica, New York. Following high school, he attended school in Strangnas, Sweden, as a Rotary International Exchange Student, returning to the United States in 1987 to attend the State University of New York College at Geneseo, where he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree. He then earned a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Iowa, studying under Panayot Butchvarov. He earned his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where Barry Smith served as his dissertation advisor. He is included in the distinguished list of American philosophers. He is a 2012 graduate of Leadership Independence and a 2013 graduate of Leadership Kansas. He was married in 1997 to the former Carin Weaver, originally of Spencerport, New York. Barwick currently resides in Independence, Kansas, with his wife and their two daughters, Laura and Leah.

Daniel Workman Barwick (born June 21, 1968, in Utica, New York) is an author, educational consultant, podcaster, blogger, and fundraiser. He was the President of Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas.