President of Oberlin College

President of Oberlin College
since 2017
TypePresident
Formation1835
First holderAsa Mahan

The President of Oberlin College is the chief administrator of both Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music.[1] Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current incumbent is Carmen Twillie Ambar.[2] As part of Oberlin's inherent mission of a vastly interdisciplinary education, presidents have been chosen from a wide range of fields as diverse as musical performance (Starr), theology (Finney) physics (Fuller), law (Krislov), athletics (Stevenson) and pure mathematics (King). Thus, each president is a qualified academic professor who has the opportunity to teach classes.

Presidents of Oberlin College

The following persons have served as president of Oberlin College:[3][4]

No. Image President Term start Term end Refs.
acting Henry Brown 1834 1834
acting John Keep 1834 1835
1 Asa Mahan 1835 1850
acting Charles Grandison Finney 1849 1849
acting John Morgan 1850 1850
2 Charles Grandison Finney[a] 1851 1866
acting John Morgan 1859 1859
3 James Fairchild 1866 1889
acting Frances Drake Parish 1871 1871
acting John Millott Ellis 1871 1871
acting Henry Martyn Tenney 1889 1891
4 William Gay Ballantine 1891 1896
acting James Harris Fairchild 1896 1898
5 John Henry Barrows 1899 June 3, 1902 [b]
acting John Guiteau Welch Cowles 1902 1902
6 Henry Churchill King 1902 1927
acting Henry Martyn Tenney 1909 1910
acting Edward Increase Bosworth 1918 1919
7 Ernest H. Wilkins 1927 1946
8 William Stevenson 1946 1960
acting William Blair Stewart December 1952 March 1953
acting Donald Melbourne Love June 1959 September 1959
9 Robert K. Carr 1960 1969
acting Ellsworth Clayton Carlson 1969 1970
10 Robert W. Fuller 1970 1974
acting Ellsworth Clayton Carlson 1974 1975
11 Emil Danenberg April 1975 January 16, 1982[b] [5]
acting[c] James Lawrence Powell September 1981 July 1983
12 S. Frederick Starr July 1, 1983 June 30, 1994
acting Alfred F. MacKay July 1991 February 1992
13 Nancy Dye July 1, 1994 June 30, 2007 [6]
acting[d] Clayton R. Koppes July 2000 December 2000 [7]
14 Marvin Krislov July 1, 2007 June 30, 2017[e] [8][9][10]
acting Clayton R. Koppes July 1, 2017 August 31, 2017 [11]
15 Carmen Twillie Ambar September 1, 2017 present [12][13][14]

Table notes:

  1. ^ Leader in the Second Great Awakening
  2. ^ a b Died in office.
  3. ^ Powell was acting president while president Danenberg was in the hospital and after Danenberg's death.
  4. ^ Acting president during Nancy Dye's 2000 sabbatical leave.
  5. ^ Resigned to lead Pace University.

References

  1. ^ "Oberlin College". Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  2. ^ And Then There Were Three The Mass Media
  3. ^ "Presidents of Oberlin Colleges". Oberlin College Archives. Oberlin College. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  4. ^ "History of Oberlin Presidents". Oberlin College. 30 April 2018.
  5. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (January 18, 1982). "EMIL DENANEBERG, EDUCATOR, IS DEAD". The New York Times. p. D10.
  6. ^ Kaplan, Maxine; Hansen, Jamie (September 15, 2006). "Dye Announces Retirement: After 12 Years, Dye is Set to Step Down". The Oberlin Review.
  7. ^ Dodson, Robert K. (Fall 2000). "The Best of Both Worlds". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Vol. 96, no. 2.
  8. ^ McIntyre, Mike (Summer 2007). "Taking Office". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Vol. 103, no. 1.
  9. ^ "President Krislov Announces Departure Plans". Oberlin College. September 6, 2016.
  10. ^ "Marvin Krislov Named Pace University President". Oberlin College. February 14, 2017.
  11. ^ "Clayton Koppes Receives Distinguished Achievement Award". Oberlin College. June 18, 2018.
  12. ^ "Carmen Twillie Ambar Named 15th President of Oberlin". Oberlin College News Center. Oberlin College. May 30, 2017. Archived from the original on 5 June 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  13. ^ "Carmen Twillie Ambar Named 15th President of Oberlin". Oberlin College. May 30, 2017.
  14. ^ Harris, Melissa; Bolles, Christian (September 1, 2017). "Off the Cuff: Carmen Ambar, President of Oberlin College". The Oberlin Review.
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