Josiah Bunting III

Josiah Bunting III (born 1939) is an American educator. He has been a military officer, college president, and an author and speaker on education and Western culture.

Biography

Josiah Bunting was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended The Hill School, but did not graduate. Instead, he entered the U.S. Marine Corps. He went on to Virginia Military Institute where he graduated third in his class as an English major. and was elected to a Rhodes scholarship to attend the University of Oxford, where he achieved a M.A. and also served as president of the American Students Association. He entered the United States Army in 1966. After six years of service, he reached the rank of Major. He was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Vietnam (9th Infantry Division); and West Point, where he was assistant professor of history and social sciences. Bunting served on the faculty of the Naval War College for a year in 1973-74.

Bunting served as president of Briarcliff College and Hampden-Sydney College and headmaster of The Lawrenceville School near Princeton, New Jersey. Notably, Lawrenceville is the arch rival of Bunting's former high school, The Hill School.

Bunting was appointed Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute in 1995 and served until 2003. At VMI, he served as Professor of Humanities. He was responsible for overseeing preparations for and the enrollment of VMI's first female cadets.

Bunting is also a member of the UNESCO Commission and of the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington.

In 2004, Bunting was appointed chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

In 2007, Bunting was appointed president of ISI’s Lehrman American Studies Center.

Bunting is married and has four adult children.

Books

Nonfiction

*"Small Units in the Control of Civil Disorder" (1967)
*"Ulysses S. Grant" (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2004), part of the "American Presidents" series (ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.)

Novels

*"The Lionheads" selected one of the Ten Best Novels of 1973 by "Time" magazine.
*"The Advent of Frederick Giles" (1974).
*"An Education for Our Time" (Regnery, 1998), a work describing a "dying billionaire's detailed vision of a new, ideal college", was a main selection of the Conservative Book Club in 1998.
*"All Loves Excelling" (Bridge Works, 2001), set in a boarding school.

Edited editions

*Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Lays of Ancient Rome" (Gateway, 1997)
*Newman, Cardinal John Henry. "The Idea of a University" (Gateway, 1999)

ee also

References

* [http://www.americanidea.org/speakers/bunting/ Biography from Center for the American Idea (dated 2008)]
* [http://web.vmi.edu/buntingbio.htm Biography from VMI (dated 2002)]
* [http://www.hsc.edu/pres/presidents/josiah_bunting.html Biography from H-SC (dated 1995)]
* [http://www.isi.org/civic_lit/index.html National Civic Literacy Board]