Richard Warch, 14th president of Lawrence University, is a member of the executive committee of the Annapolis Group, an association of America's finest liberal arts colleges. He became president of Lawrence University in 1979, after serving the college for two years as vice-president for academic affairs and professor of history. Named one of the top 100 college presidents in a national study of effective presidents, his 21-year tenure is the second longest Lawrence presidency, exceeded only by that of Samuel Plantz, president from 1894 to 1924. Prior to coming to Lawrence he was an associate professor of history and American studies at Yale University, associate dean of Yale College, and director of summer plans and director of the visiting faculty program at Yale. A graduate of Williams College, President Warch holds the B.Div. degree from the Yale Divinity School (having studied also at the University of Edinburgh) and the Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University. Co-editor of the volume John Brown in the Great Lives Observed Series and author of School of the Prophets: Yale College 1701-1740, he has written widely on topics in American religious history, liberal education, and history; served as a consultant for colleges and universities, public schools, and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and chaired a Wisconsin Governor's Task Force on Student Debt.
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