Purpose

The 50 college and university presidents profiled in the Presidential Leadership section of the guidebook demonstrate a personal commitment to a wide variety of character-development activities and issues on their campuses. Although their priorities, strategies, and approaches may differ, all of these college leaders have made it their priority to prepare students for lives of personal and civic responsibility. By recognizing these men and women, we hope that they will become beacons of inspiration for college administrators across the United States who are interested in learning ways to establish character development as an essential aspect of an undergraduate education.

Selection Criteria

• Establishes character development as a high priority
• Serves as a catalyst for the design and implementation of campus-wide activities that prepare students for lives of personal and civic responsibility
• Provides national leadership and sustained commitment in promoting the importance of character development in higher education
• Models in professional and personal life those aspects of character and integrity that students should emulate

David J. Gyertson
Asbury College
http://www.asbury.edu/

Sr. Jeanne O'Laughlin
Barry University
http://www.barry.edu/

Larry D. Shinn
Berea College
http://www.berea.edu/

Neal R. Berte
Birmingham-Southern College
http://www.bsc.edu/

E. Gordon Gee
Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/

John D. Welty
California State University­Fresno
http://www.csufresno.edu/

Jerry C. Davis
College of the Ozarks
http://www.cofo.edu/

Claire L. Gaudiani
Connecticut College
http://www.camel.conncoll.edu/

James T. Harris
The Defiance College
http://www.defiance.edu/

Nannerl O. Keohane
Duke University
http://www.duke.edu/

John E. Murray, Jr.
Duquesne University
http://www.duq.edu/

Kent R. Hill
Eastern Nazarene College
http://www.enc.edu/

David E. Shi
Furman University
http://www.furman.edu/

H. David Brandt
George Fox University
http://www.georgefox.edu/

R. Judson Carlberg
Gordon College
http://www.gordon.edu/

Axel D. Steuer
Gustavus Adolphus College
http://www.gustavus.edu/

Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
Hampshire College
http://www.hampshire.edu/

William R. Harvey
Hampton University
http://www.hamptonu.edu/

Sr. Kathleen Ross
Heritage College
http://www.heritage.edu/

Cynthia H. Tyson
Mary Baldwin College
http://www.mbc.edu/

Sr. Eymard Gallagher
Marymount University
http://www.marymount.edu/

Michael T. Nietzel
Missouri
Missouri State University

Sr. Karen M. Kennelly
Mount St. Mary's College
http://www.msmc.la.edu/

Harold M. Kolenbrander
Mount Union College
http://www.muc.edu/

Arthur R. Taylor
Muhlenberg College
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/

Nancy S. Dye
Oberlin College
http://www.oberlin.edu/

Sr. Mary Andrew Matesich
Ohio Dominican College
http://www.odc.edu/

Robert B. Glidden
Ohio University
http://www.ohiou.edu/

Graham B. Spanier
The Pennsylvania State University
http://www.psu.edu/

Vera King Farris
Richard Stockton College
http://www.stockton.edu/

William C. Crothers
Roberts Wesleyan College
http://www.roberts.edu/

Robert A. Corrigan
San Francisco State University
http://www.sfsu.edu/

Philip W. Eaton
Seattle Pacific University
http://www.spu.edu/

Talbert O. Shaw
Shaw University
http://www.shawuniversity.edu/

R. Gerald Turner
Southern Methodist University
http://www.smu.edu/

Jay L. Kesler
Taylor University
http://www.tayloru.edu/

Evan S. Dobelle
Trinity College
http://www.trincoll.edu/

John DiBiaggio
Tufts University
http://www.tufts.edu/

Lt. Gen. Tad J. Oelstrom
United States Air Force Academy
http://www.usafa.af.mil/

Richard L. Byyny
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.colorado.edu/

Daniel L. Ritchie
University of Denver-University Park
http://www.du.edu/

Fr. Edward A. Malloy
University of Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/

Fr. David T. Tyson
University of Portland
http://www.up.edu/

John T. Casteen III
University of Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/

Andrew T. Ford
Wabash College
http://www.wabash.edu/

Thomas K. Hearn, Jr.
Wake Forest University
http://www.wfu.edu/

Diana Chapman Walsh
Wellesley College
http://www.wellesley.edu/

David K. Winter
Westmont College
http://www.westmont.edu/

Duane Litfin
Wheaton College
http://www.wheaton.edu/