Charles R. Middleton

Charles R. Middleton
Roosevelt University
Term	2002 – Present
Predecessor	Theodore Gross
Born	Sept. 16, 1944 Hays, Kansas
Alma mater	Florida State University Duke University
Profession	Academic Administrator and Historian
Spouse	Life Partner: Professor John S. Geary
Children	Charles C., Kevin A., Kathryn G.

Charles R. Middleton has served as the President of Roosevelt University since 2002.^[1][2]

Biography

Middleton graduated with his Bachelors degree from Florida State University.^[1][2] He received both his Masters degree and Doctorate from Duke University.^[1][2]

He served as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University System of Maryland, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Bowling Green State University, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder.^[1] In 2002 he became the President of Roosevelt University.^[1]

He is a member of the Royal Historical Society, the American Historical Association, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Institute for International Education.^[1][2]

He serves on the Board of the American Council on Education and the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities.^[1] He has also been involved with the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid Committee, the Chicago Loop Alliance, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Center on Halsted, the Chicago Central Area Committee, the Near South Planning Board, the Point Foundation and the Chicago History Museum Community Advisory Council, Rotary One, the Economic Club of Chicago, the Executives' Club, the Commercial Club of Chicago, Equality Illinois, and the Human Rights Campaign.^[1][2] He is a signatory of the Amethyst Initiative.^[3]

He is openly gay.^[2] In November 2006, Dr. Middleton was elected to the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.^[2] In spring 2010 he gave the keynote address at the conference "25 Years After: GLBT in Higher Education" at Texas A&M University, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the legal decision forcing Texas A&M to recognize Gay Student Services as an official student organization.

Bibliography

• The Administration of British Foreign Policy, 1782-1846

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Roosevelt University biography
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame
3. ^ Amethyst Initiative

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Name	Middleton, Charles R.
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Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	Hays, Kansas
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