William Breeze, PhD

William Breeze, PhD, is the Senior Administrative Director of Faculty Advancement and Postdoctoral Affairs at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Working within the Office of the Provost, he directs institutional programming, strategic operations, and policy development supporting faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and emeriti across CWRU’s schools and affiliated clinical partners, including Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and MetroHealth.

With more than 25 years of higher education leadership and instructional experience, he previously served for 15 years as Director of First-Year Writing at Cleveland State University, where he directed the university’s largest general education program and collaborated on statewide transfer and remediation-free standards with the Ohio Department of Higher Education. His prior appointments include faculty positions at the University of Hartford. An active writer and editor, he has authored and edited widely adopted composition textbooks—including In Practice: A Reader for Writers (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and The Engaged Reader (Van-Griner)—and previously led the literary journal Quarter After Eight.

A veteran of the U.S. Navy and the Ohio Army National Guard, he holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition and a BA in English from Ohio University, and an MA in English from the University of Louisville.