The second-longest serving president in the college's history, Richard Warch became Lawrence's 14th president on September 1, 1979. Prior to that, he spent two years as vice president for academic affairs and professor of history at Lawrence. From 1968 to 1977, Warch was a member of the Yale University faculty in the history and American studies departments and spent his final year there as associate dean.
In June, 1999, Warch was named to the executive committee of the Annapolis Group, an association of more than 100 of America's leading liberal arts colleges. In the 1987 study, "The Effective College President," a two-year project funded by the Exxon Education Foundation, he was named one of the nation's top 100 college presidents.
A native of Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, Warch earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College in 1961, his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1964, and the Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University in 1968.
He is the author of the book School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1710-1740, co-edited the volume John Brown in the Prentice-Hall Great Lives Observed Series, and has addressed a wide variety of issues facing higher education in numerous published articles, reviews, and commentaries.
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