The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public land-grant research university in Amherst,Massachusetts,United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system,and was founded in 1863 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium,along with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley.
Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton,Illinois,United States. It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. Wheaton College was a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduated one of Illinois' first black college graduates.
Martin Thomas Meehan is an American academic administrator,politician,and attorney. Since July 2015,Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell since September 2007.
The University of Richmond is a private liberal arts college in Richmond,Virginia,United States. It is a primarily undergraduate,residential institution with approximately 3,900 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools:the School of Arts and Sciences;the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business;the Jepson School of Leadership Studies;the University of Richmond School of Law;and the School of Professional &Continuing Studies. It is classified among "Baccalaureate Colleges:Arts &Sciences Focus".
Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college in Norton,Massachusetts. Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary. The trustees officially changed the name of the Wheaton Female Seminary to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It remained one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States until men began to be admitted in 1988. It enrolls 1,669 undergraduate students.
A provost is a senior academic administrator. At many institutions of higher education,the provost is the chief academic officer,a role that may be combined with being deputy to the chief executive officer. In some institutions,they may be the chief executive officer of a university,of a branch campus of a university,or of a college within a university.
Jeffrey Sean Lehman is an American legal scholar and academic administrator who is the vice chancellor of New York University Shanghai. Known as an advocate for the role of universities in globalization,he previously served as chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen,China,president of Cornell University,dean of the University of Michigan Law School,and chairman of Internet2.
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca,New York,United States. The university was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. Since its founding,Cornell has been a co-educational and nonsectarian institution. As of fall 2023,the student body included 16,071 undergraduate and 10,207 graduate students from all 50 U.S. states and 130 countries.
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of predominantly American research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. Founded in 1900,it consists of 69 public and private universities in the United States as well as two universities in Canada. AAU membership is by invitation only and requires an affirmative vote of three-quarters of current members.
The Isenberg School of Management is the business school and also the second largest school at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,the flagship campus for the University of Massachusetts system. The Isenberg School is accredited by the AACSB International and ACPHA.
Carlos Enrique Santiago is a Puerto Rican American labor economist and the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (MDHE). Previously he was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the chief executive officer of the Hispanic College Fund.
The President of the University of Richmond is the chief administrator of the University of Richmond and an ex officio member of the university's board of trustees. The current president is Kevin Hallock,formerly the dean of the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.
Kumble R. Subbaswamy is an Indian physicist and college administrator who served as the 11th chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently serves as Interim Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Equity,serving the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. He formerly served as the provost of University of Kentucky.
Dennis M. Hanno is an American accountant and academic administrator was served as 11th president of Wheaton College in Norton,Massachusetts,for more than seven-year term. He also served as provost of Babson College. Hanno is a Clinical Associate Professor at Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University.
James Keith Motley is a former academic administrator who served as the eighth chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Marcellette ("Marci") Gaillard-Gay Williams is an American retired academic administrator who served as interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst from July 2001 until July 2002. She was the university's eighth chancellor and the first woman to serve in the position.
Kevin F. Hallock is an American economist and academic administrator serving as president of the University of Richmond since 2021. Before coming to Richmond,he was the Dean of the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University from 2018 to 2021.
Javier Reyes is an American economist who is the 12th and current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst,as well as Professor of Finance at Isenberg School of Management. Reyes is an economist and the first Hispanic to serve as the chancellor of UMass Amherst.
