Dr. David Newton currently serves as interim AVP for Academic Affairs in the Office of Provost, as UWG's SACSCOC Institutional Accreditation Liaison, and as institutional liaison to the University System of Georgia for curriculum and academic program development. He directs the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Assessment, and Accreditation and, as Senior Fellow for Student Success, coordinates USG Momentum (Complete College Georgia) initiatives at UWG. He also serves as an ex-officio member of the steering committee for UWG's SACSCOC Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) that supports student success through experiential learning. 

Dr. Newton received degrees from the College of Charleston (B.A., English), the Candler School of Theology (M.Div., Historical Theology), and Emory University (Ph.D., Linguistics).

As a member of UWG's teaching and research faculty, Dr. Newton has served in the Department of English and Philosophy, and currently is a faculty member in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics, research & methods, historical theology, and literary studies.  His scholarship has focused on linguistics—with an emphasis on language variation in the United States—and on the language and culture of the American South. In addition to conference presentations and journal articles, he has published books, critical editions, and book chapters with the University of Georgia Press, the University of South Carolina Press, and the University of Arkansas Press.