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become better versions of themselves. This common one teaches, leads, or facilitates positively affecting
trait of stewardship defines Newton scholastically, students in more ways than previously understood or
professionally, and as part-time faculty member of thought.
UCWV.

Newton serves as the Chief Planning & Development Dissertations
Officer/ Development Services Director for the City
of Fayetteville, North Carolina (the home of Fort Newton, Gerald Alan. "Steward Facilitation Impacts on the
Plexiformation of Leaders." Order No. 22623323,
Bragg). Newton oversees all new growth, University of Charleston - Beckley, 2019.
development, and redevelopment, and short- and https://search.proquest.com/docview/2307397256?acc
long-term planning, along with building & trade ountid=137164.
inspections and code enforcement for the city of Page, Dwayne. K. “Generation Z success attributes and
210,000. needs: Implications for executive leaders of Arkansas
Army National Guard” (Order No. 27740223).
He previously served as Executive Director for Available from ProQuest One Academic.
LCATS (a federal transportation MPO), Director of (2378903891).
Licking County Planning & Development, Ohio, https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-
working with over 40 separate local governments and theses/generation-z-success-attributes-
needs/docview/2378903891/se-2?accountid=137164
state agencies on new and community developments. Rabel, David G. “Executive Leaders’ Empathy in Decision-
He served as Cabarrus County, NC Planning & Making Processes During Disaster Recovery: A
Development Area Manager and oversaw five Phenomenological Study.”
departments and the construction of the county
reservoir. His reservoir permitting led to national
standards for the protection and use of stream
buffers and compatible development. Newton’s
stewardship in Boone County, KY created a continual
35+ year quality growth and development of parts of
northern Kentucky. In the private sector, Newton
was a NC General Contractor, real estate Broker and
Instructor, land developer and site planner,
community planner, land development consultant;
and served as an apartment and hotel regional land
acquisition manager, and planning & development
director for a national retail company.

Dr. Newton’s dissertation research accepted a
challenge of Dr. George E. Walker and the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
writings of 2008 to contest the master and apprentice
approach of educational higher education and explore
andragogy and stewardship. Newton’s (2019) Steward
Facilitation Impacts on the Plexiformation of Leaders
dissertation shares how that charge of stewardship
was accepted by the University of Charleston
Leadership Program before presenting the ORGL
program research. The quantitative, cross-sectional
study of the UCWV undergraduate leadership
program found correlative evidence supporting how