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Richard L. Morrill, Ph.D.
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Richard L. Morrill, Ph.D., will receive the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree during Randolph-Macon College’s Commencement on Saturday, May 28, 2011. Morrill is the president of the Teagle Foundation, which serves as a national voice in higher education policy and a catalyst for change to improve undergraduate student learning in the arts and sciences.
Morrill has a long and distinguished career in higher education. He was president of the University of Richmond from 1988 to 1998 and continues to serve in the honorary position of chancellor. He also served as president of Centre College from 1982 to 1988 and as president of Salem College from 1979 to 1982. He was chief of staff to the provost of Pennsylvania State University from 1977 to 1979, and held a variety of faculty and administrative positions at Chatham College from 1968-1977, including assistant to the president, associate provost and associate professor of religious studies.
Morrill currently is president of the board of the Richmond Symphony Foundation, a director of the Library of Virginia Foundation, chairman of the Tredegar Corporation, and a director of the Albemarle Corporation and of the Williamsburg Investment Trust.
Previously, he was chair of the board of trustees of Christian Children's Fund, a member of the executive committee of ChildFund International, and served on the executive committee of the board and as Treasurer of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He also served as a director of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), chairman of the College Commission of SACS, and as a member of two commissions of the American Council on Education (ACE).
A native of Hingham, Massachusetts, Morrill earned his A.B. in history in 1961 from Brown University, graduating magna cum laude, his B.D. in religious thought in 1964 from Yale University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and the recipient of the Tew Prize for excellence in studies, and his Ph.D. in religion from Duke University where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. As an undergraduate he studied in Paris, France, principally at the Institute of Political Studies under the auspices of Sweet Briar College. He attended the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard in 1974 and has received honorary degrees from four institutions, including the École des Haute Études Internationales in Paris, France. He is also a member of the Order of Academic Palms and the Order of National Merit of the French Republic. The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools awarded him its Distinguished Leadership Award in 2008.
Morrill has written and spoken widely on issues of values and ethics in liberal education and has published several articles and made numerous presentations on strategic planning and leadership for colleges and universities. He is the author of Teaching Values in College: Facilitating Ethical, Moral and Value Awareness in Students (Jossey-Bass, 1980), Strategic Leadership in Academic Affairs: Clarifying the Board's Responsibilities (AGB, 2002), and Strategic Leadership: Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities (ACE/Praeger, 2007).
Morrill is married to Martha Leahy Morrill and they have two daughters, three grandsons and two granddaughters.
Randolph-Macon College Commencement will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the R-MC Frank E. Brown Fountain Plaza on Henry Street. (In the event of rain, commencement will be held in the Randolph-Macon Brock Recreation Center, located at 400 N. Center Street, at 10 a.m.) Click on
2011 Commencement for more information on this year’s events and activities.
For media inquiries or more information about R-MC’s 2011 Commencement activities, please contact Pam Cox at (804) 752-3712 or pamelacox@rmc.edu, or Anne Marie Lauranzon at (804) 752-7317 or alauranz@rmc.edu.