After serving as President of the Anglo-American University ( Vysoka Skola ) of Prague , Czech Republic , for three years, Dr. Joseph Drew returned to the United States in 2004 upon his appointment as President of the Virginia Campus of the University of Northern Virginia . While in Prague , Dr. Drew played a key role in organizing AI's first global conference on "Redefining Europe". In 1999 Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vermont) selected him to be Executive Director for the Potomac Regional Education Partnership, an organization of prominent Greater Washington education, political, and civic leaders. In the 1960's, Dr. Drew was Assistant Director of the Education Commission of the States, Editor of the Compact Review of Education, and an Education Policy Fellow in Washington, D.C., working with two Members of Congress who chaired committees on education appropriations and education legislation. In 1968 he became Director of Grants and Research at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. As a Professor, Dr. Drew taught Political Science and Sociology at the University of the District of Columbia for two decades. He was subsequently Vice President at Southeastern University in D.C. and Dean of the Division of Business and Social Science at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown , West Virginia . Dr. Drew earned his B.A. from Columbia College (1964) in Sociology. He earned an M.S.J. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism before obtaining his M.A. and Ph. D. in Sociology and Political Science from The New School for Social Research. For the past six years, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Comparative Civilizations Review and serves on the board of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He was named to the District of Columbia Board of Appeals and Review by former Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. He joined AUD/AI in 1999 and has been very active ever since.