C. Peter Magrath

Claude Peter Magrath was named interim president of West Virginia University on July 8, 2008. Other than an interim presidency at the University of Nebraska (where he was provost and held other positions, 1968-72), his first university presidency was at the State University of New York, Binghamton, 1972-74. He was the eleventh president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1974 to 1984. From 1985 to 1991 he was president of the University of Missouri System. From 1992 to 2005 he was president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Beginning in 2006, he served as senior advisor to the College Board. Magrath received political science degrees as an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire and as a Ph.D. at Cornell University. He began his teaching and administrative career at Brown University, 1961-68. He was born in April 1933 in Brooklyn, New York.

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* [http://www1.umn.edu/pres/05_hist_magrath.html University of Minnesota Office of the President]