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University president is the title of the highest-ranking officer within the academic administration of a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as chancellor or rector. The relative seniority varies between institutions.
A head of college or head of house is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university.The title used varies between colleges, including dean, master, president, principal, provost, rector and warden.
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) – Nora Demleitner, Annapolis President; Mark Roosevelt, Santa Fe President St. Lawrence University – William Fox, President Saint Louis University – Fred Pestello , President
The chief executive, the administrative and educational head of a university, depending on tradition and location, may be termed the university president, the provost, the chancellor (the United States), the vice-chancellor (many Commonwealth countries), principal (Scotland and Canada), or rector (Europe, Russia, Asia, the Middle East and South America).
Most presidents of the United States received a college education, even most of the earliest.Of the first seven presidents, five were college graduates. College degrees have set the presidents apart from the general population, and presidents have held degrees even though it was quite rare and unnecessary for practicing most occupations, including law.
The president is selected for a renewable 5-year term by the trustees of the university among the priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross. [6] Many of the presidents have been Notre Dame alumni. The president must be a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross , which founded the University. [1]
At the time of her retirement, she was the longest-serving female president still sitting, as well as the longest-currently-serving president of a Catholic college or university . [14] [15] Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones: 41 years 1936 1977 Grambling State University: Grambling, LA W. Burkette Raper 41 years 1954 1995 University of Mount Olive ...
AGB was founded in 1921. [4] It grew out of a conference held at the University of Michigan in 1920. [5] Until the early 1960s the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges was an affiliation of board members who took turns sharing the leadership and guidance needed to sustain an organization. [6]