After a nationwide search, Muhlenberg College has selected its 12th president.
John I. Williams Jr. will take the helm on July 1, 2015.
The chair of the search committee, Eric L. Berg, '78, said Williams’ formidable intellect and leadership experience, gained in his wide-ranging business, consulting and entrepreneurial career, and his extensive record of engagement within higher education, made him the top choice in an extremely rich pool of candidates.
Williams graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College in 1975. He went on to earn both a law degree (J.D.) at Harvard Law School and a master’s in business administration (M.B.A.) at Harvard Business School, in 1979.
He's worked for American Express in New York, started several entrepreneurial ventures, and served as a strategic consultant for nonprofit organizations and colleges.
Williams pointed to his own life as evidence of the transformative power of a liberal arts education and said he looks forward to joining the Muhlenberg College community.
“I’m delighted to be selected to lead this wonderful liberal arts college,” he said. “I’m attracted by Muhlenberg’s many qualities, including its caring culture, transparency and inclusiveness, openness to new ideas, focus on teaching and learning, the strength, variety, and innovativeness of its programs and, of course, the beauty of the campus.
"Muhlenberg has all of these qualities, and more, in abundance. I welcome the opportunity to lead a liberal arts college with Muhlenberg’s excellent reputation, its rich history, fantastic students, and its deeply committed and hard-working faculty and staff. Muhlenberg is well-positioned to continue to grow even stronger in the years ahead.”
Current Muhlenberg President Randy Helm announced in February his plans to retire at the end of June, 2015, after 12 years at the job.
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