 Willard D. Rowland, Jr. holds a BA in History from Stanford University, an MA in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.He was conferred as dean emeritus and professor emeritus by University of Colorado at Boulder and is a research scholar in the fields of Public Broadcasting in the US, Mass Communications and Violence in the Media.He attended the Catlin-Gabel school in Portland, Oregon and graduated from the St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.