West Texas A&M University, also known as WTAMU, WT, and formerly West Texas State, part of the Texas A&M University System, is a public university located in Canyon, Texas, a city of 13,303 about 13 miles south of Amarillo, a city of 190,695. The university is part of the Amarillo metropolitan area with a population of 268,893. West Texas A&M University was established on September 20, 1910, and was originally known as West Texas State Normal College. The university started out as one of the seven state-funded teachers' colleges in Texas.
Oral Roberts University (ORU) is a private evangelical liberal arts university in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Founded in 1963, the university is named after its founder, evangelist Oral Roberts, and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The university enrolls approximately 4,000 students.
Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City, New York. Adelphi also has centers in Manhattan, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County. It is the oldest institution of higher education in suburban Long Island.
Stephen Allen Schwarzman is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with former chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers and US Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson. His personal fortune is estimated at $12.4 billion as of December 2018. As of 2017, Forbes ranked Schwarzman at 117th on its World's Billionaires List. Schwarzman briefly served as Chairman of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum for 6 months before its dissolution.
Concordia College is a four-year liberal arts college in Bronxville, New York. Concordia College is sponsored by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and is a member of the Concordia University System. It is chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York to offer associate, bachelor, and master's degrees.
Richard Chatham Atkinson is an American professor of psychology and academic administrator. He is the former president and regent of the University of California system, and former chancellor of the University of California San Diego.
Richard Levis McCormick is a historian, professor and president emeritus of Rutgers University.
Stephen James Kopp was an American educator. He was president of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia from 2005 until his death in 2014.
Ruben Armiñana is a political scientist who served as the sixth president of Sonoma State University from 1992 to 2016. He is the first Cuban-American to head a campus in the California State University system.
David Jan Skorton is an American physician, academic, non-profit and university administrator. He leads the Smithsonian Institution, the national research museums of the United States, as its 13th Secretary. On December 20, 2018, it was announced that he had been selected as the next President and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), a position he will begin on July 15, 2019. A cardiologist, he was president of Cornell University from 2006 to 2015. Before arriving at Cornell, he served as president of the University of Iowa, where he had been a longtime professor and then vice president. He began his career as a professor of medicine and engineering.
Ernest Leroy Wilkinson was an American academic administrator, lawyer, and prominent figure in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1951 to 1971, simultaneously overseeing the entire LDS Church Educational System. He is credited with the expansion of Brigham Young University. Under his presidency, the student body increased six times to over twenty-five thousand students due to the physical growth of the university and his aggressive recruiting policies. The number of colleges at the university increased from five to thirteen and the number of faculty members increased four-fold. Wilkinson focused on recruiting more faculty and convincing current faculty to receive education outside the university. As a result, the number of teachers with doctorate degrees increased from 50 to 500. Associate and doctoral programs were created for Brigham Young University.
Pindaros Roy Vagelos, better known as P. Roy Vagelos or Roy Vagelos, is an American physician and business executive, who was president and chief executive officer (1985) and chairman (1986) of the American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.. He attracted research scientists who developed many major new drugs.
Lester A. Lefton is an American academic and higher education administrator. He was the President of Kent State University (2006–2014). He has 35 years of experience in higher education, having served for 25 years at a public institution and nine at private institutions. During his career, he has been a psychology professor, dean and provost, as well as a psychology textbook author.
David Mark Rubenstein is an American financier and philanthropist. He is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity investment company based in Washington, D.C. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Chairman of the Smithsonian Institution, and President of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. According to the Forbes ranking of the wealthiest people in the world, Rubenstein has a net worth of $3 billion.
Nils Yngve Wessell was an American psychologist and the eighth president of Tufts University from 1953 to 1966, overseeing its transformation from a small liberal arts college to an internationally known research university.
Sidney A. McPhee is a Bahamian born, American educator currently serving as the President of Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). McPhee, who became MTSU's tenth president in 2001, earned his B.A. degree from Prairie View A&M University in 1976, a master's degree in 1979 from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, and a Doctorate in Applied Behavioral Studies in Education from Oklahoma State University. During McPhee's presidency, MTSU became the largest undergraduate university in Tennessee and the No. 1 producer of graduates in the Tennessee Board of Regents system. MTSU is also the top destination for transfer students in Tennessee, the state's veterans and boasts the state's largest summer session enrollment.
Paul L. Foster is an American businessman who is chairman of the board of Western Refining, a Fortune 200 and Global 2000 oil refiner and marketer based in El Paso, Texas.
The UCSF School of Medicine, is the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco, United States, and is located in San Francisco. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland, it is the oldest medical school in California and the western United States. The school is affiliated with the UCSF Medical Center, which was ranked in 2017 as the #1 hospital in California and the #5 in the United States. UCSF faculty have treated patients and trained residents since 1873 at the San Francisco General Hospital and for over 50 years at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Rev. William Cassady Cattell D.D., LL.D was a Presbyterian divine and educator of the United States, serving as the 7th president of Lafayette College.
