Thomas Ehrlich

Thomas Ehrlich was the 15th president of Indiana University, serving from 1987 to 1994. Upon his retirement in 1994, Thomas Ehrlich was named President Emeritus. After retiring from Indiana University, he became a Distinguished University Scholar at the California State University, where he taught for five years and helped develop the CSU community service learning program. He is currently a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Biography

Before coming to Indiana University, he served as dean of Stanford Law School and as provost of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1975 to 1978 he was the first president of the Legal Service Corporation, which provides legal services to poor people. He then served President Jimmy Carter as the first head of the International Development Cooperation Agency, with responsibility for coordinating U.S. bilateral and multilateral aid. At the Carnegie Foundation he has been the co-author or editor of six books, most recently "Educating for Democracy" (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Previously he was author, co-author, or editor of five other books. He is currently working on a project to examine how undergraduate business majors can best gain a strong liberal education. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, both magna cum laude, and was a law clerk for Judge Learned Hand. He holds five honorary degrees.

Family

He and his wife, Ellen, live in Palo Alto, California, near their three children and their spouses and their nine grandchildren. They celebrated their fifty wedding anniversary in 2007.