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A list of Rollins College's standing and former presidents. The school has currently had 15 different presidents. The school has currently had 15 different presidents. Interim Presidents are not included in this category.
President Hamilton Holt decided to require all professors to make a "loyalty pledge" to keep their jobs. In March 1933, Holt fired John Andrew Rice, an atheist scholar and unorthodox teacher, whom Holt had hired, along with three other "golden personalities" (as Holt called them), in his push to put Rollins on the cutting edge of innovative education, for refusing to sign the loyalty pledge.
Grant Cornwell is an American educator, academic, and liberal education advocate. Since 2015, he has served as the 15th president [1] of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, following his role as president of the College of Wooster in Ohio.
In 1925, Holt became President of Rollins College in Florida and served in that capacity until 1949. His approach to education stresses a cooperative new system called the "Conference Plan" which involved extensive one-on-one interaction between professor and student.
[1] [2] [3] From 1969 to 1978 he was president of Wabash College, [4] [5] and from 1978 to 1990 he was president of Rollins College. [6] [7] [8] During his time at Rollins, he returned the focus of the college to its roots as a liberal-arts college, raised faculty salaries, built a new college library and a dedicated classroom building for the ...
Presidents of Rollins College (5 P) Pages in category "Rollins College people" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
William Fremont Blackman (1855–1932) was the fourth president of Rollins College from 1902 to 1915. [1] [2] He was born on September 26, 1855, in North Pitcher, New York.He attended Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1877.
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