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Robert B. Lambeth Jr. ’71 |
Robert B. Lambeth Jr. ’71 has served as president of the Council for Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV) since 1983. He oversees the coordination of collaborative projects for 29 Virginia independent colleges and universities, including government relations, marketing, and business and purchasing activities. He is also a staunch advocate for the Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) program. TAG provides more than $60 million per year to students attending Virginia's independent colleges.
In 2010, CICV formally launched the Healthcare Consortium of the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia, a self-insured health benefits program for 13 members with 3,000 employees and $25 million in premiums. Like other United States employers, Virginia private colleges faced the annual challenge of rising health care costs, higher premiums, fewer choices, and shrinking budgets. Member colleges united to explore options for purchasing and administering health insurance benefits for their employees as a single entity. Establishing the first benefits consortium required feasibility studies, legislative approval, marketing studies and carrier negotiations. The end results for the consortium members are more effective cost controls, more choices in plan design, and real negotiating power with insurance carriers.
Prior to his work at CICV, Lambeth was director of the corporation for Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and Joseph Nichols Tavern. He was instrumental in forming the Corporation in 1983 to save the historical retreat of former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Lambeth has also served as an adjunct instructor at Randolph College.
A devoted alumnus of Randolph-Macon College, Lambeth has served on the Society of Alumni and Board of Associates. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Randolph-Macon Society of Alumni in 2009. Lambeth was also a speaker during the office dedication of the late Bruce Unger, who was an esteemed political science professor at Randolph-Macon.
Lambeth earned his B.A. in
political science from Randolph-Macon College, studied at Wroxton College, and earned his J.D. from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. He has also done graduate work in government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. Lambeth and his wife, Lynn, reside in Bedford County, Virginia.