The President today announced his intention to nominate Kenneth D. Whitehead to be Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the Department of Education. He would succeed C. Ronald Kimberling. Since 1988 Mr. Whitehead has been Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs, 1986-1988, and director of the Center for International Education, 1982-1986. He was executive vice president for Catholics United for the Faith, Inc., in New Rochelle, NY, 1972-1981.
Mr. Whitehead graduated from the University of Utah (B.A., 1955). He was born December 14, 1930, in Rupert, ID. He served in the U.S. Army, 1952. Mr. Whitehead is married, has four children, and resides in Falls Church, VA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Kenneth D. Whitehead To Be an Assistant Secretary of Education Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/253468