Roger H. Martin
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Roger Martin also known Rusty, served as the 14th president of Randolph-Macon College
http://www.rmc.edu/, an independent liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia
, from July 1997 until January 2006. He is the author of Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again (University of California Press: 2008)http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520265875 which tells the story of his six month sabbatical at St. John's College
http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/, the Great Books School, in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2004 where he enrolled as a 61 year old freshman. At St. John's he read Homer
, Plato
, Aeschylus
, and Herodotus
, and went out for crew, racing at the Head of the Occoquan with eight teenagers. Today, he is president of Academic Collaborations Inc.http://www.academiccollaborations.com/, a higher education consulting firm. He also serves as Deputy Chair of the British Schools and Universities Foundation http://www.bsuf.org/ in New York City.
http://www.denison.edu/ in Granville, Ohio before graduating from Drew University
http://www.drew.edu in Madison, New Jersey. He then received a B.D. from Yale University
http://www.yale.edu and the D.Phil. from Oxford University http://www.ox.ac.uk where he was a member of Lincoln College
http://www.linc.ox.ac.uk/.
http://www.rpi.edu and New York University
http://www.nyu.edu before going on to Middlebury College
http://www.middlebury.edu where he was assistant professor of history and assistant to the President from 1976 to 1980. From 1980 to 1986, he was Associate Dean of the Divinity School at Harvard University
and Lecturer on British Church History. Then, for the next twenty years, he served as President and Professor of History at two liberal arts colleges, Moravian College
http://www.moravian.edu in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1997 and Randolph-Macon College
in Ashland, Virginia from 1997 to 2006.
Martin is the author of a monograph on British Church history and has published in many scholarly journals including Church History and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Lehigh University
http://www.lehigh.edu, Moravian College
, Drew University
and Morningside College
.
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph–Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, United States, near the capital city of Richmond. Founded in 1830, the school has an enrollment of over 1,200 students...
http://www.rmc.edu/, an independent liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia
Ashland, Virginia
Originally known as Slash Cottage, Ashland is located on the Old Washington Highway U.S. Route One and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, a busy north-south route now owned by CSX Transportation...
, from July 1997 until January 2006. He is the author of Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again (University of California Press: 2008)http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520265875 which tells the story of his six month sabbatical at St. John's College
St. John's College, U.S.
St. John's College is a liberal arts college with two U.S. campuses: one in Annapolis, Maryland and one in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Founded in 1696 as a preparatory school, King William's School, the school received a collegiate charter in 1784, making it one of the oldest institutions of higher...
http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/, the Great Books School, in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2004 where he enrolled as a 61 year old freshman. At St. John's he read Homer
Homer
In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
, Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
, Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...
, and Herodotus
Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...
, and went out for crew, racing at the Head of the Occoquan with eight teenagers. Today, he is president of Academic Collaborations Inc.http://www.academiccollaborations.com/, a higher education consulting firm. He also serves as Deputy Chair of the British Schools and Universities Foundation http://www.bsuf.org/ in New York City.
Education
Martin attended Denison UniversityDenison University
Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital...
http://www.denison.edu/ in Granville, Ohio before graduating from Drew University
Drew University
Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey.Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary in 1867, the university later expanded to include an undergraduate liberal arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955...
http://www.drew.edu in Madison, New Jersey. He then received a B.D. from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
http://www.yale.edu and the D.Phil. from Oxford University http://www.ox.ac.uk where he was a member of Lincoln College
Lincoln College, Oxford
Lincoln College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is situated on Turl Street in central Oxford, backing onto Brasenose College and adjacent to Exeter College...
http://www.linc.ox.ac.uk/.
Achievements and Honors
Martin has spent his entire adult life in higher education, serving institutions like Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
http://www.rpi.edu and New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
http://www.nyu.edu before going on to Middlebury College
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...
http://www.middlebury.edu where he was assistant professor of history and assistant to the President from 1976 to 1980. From 1980 to 1986, he was Associate Dean of the Divinity School at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and Lecturer on British Church History. Then, for the next twenty years, he served as President and Professor of History at two liberal arts colleges, Moravian College
Moravian College
Moravian College a private liberal arts college, and the associated Moravian Theological Seminary are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region.-History:...
http://www.moravian.edu in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1997 and Randolph-Macon College
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph–Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, United States, near the capital city of Richmond. Founded in 1830, the school has an enrollment of over 1,200 students...
in Ashland, Virginia from 1997 to 2006.
Martin is the author of a monograph on British Church history and has published in many scholarly journals including Church History and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Lehigh University
Lehigh University
Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...
http://www.lehigh.edu, Moravian College
Moravian College
Moravian College a private liberal arts college, and the associated Moravian Theological Seminary are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region.-History:...
, Drew University
Drew University
Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey.Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary in 1867, the university later expanded to include an undergraduate liberal arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955...
and Morningside College
Morningside College
Morningside College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church located in Sioux City, Iowa. Founded in 1894 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, Morningside College is a private, four-year, co-educational liberal arts institution. Morningside has 21 buildings on a ...
.