Donald West "Don" Harward is an American philosopher who served as the sixth President of Bates College from March 1989 to November 2002, where he was succeeded by the first female president, Elaine Tuttle Hansen.
Harward then taught at the University of Delaware and the College of Wooster, where he served as a dean and vice president of academic affairs.
[1][2] On March 1, 1989, Harwad was tapped to succeed Thomas Hedley Reynolds as the sixth President of Bates College.
Three years later in 2005, The Harward Center for Community Partnerships was opened in Lewiston in his honor.
[4] He had two children with his wife, Ann Cobean McIlhenny Harward, who died in 2009.