Ronald D. Liebowitz

Infobox University President


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name =Ronald David Liebowitz


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order =16th
university =President of Middlebury College
term_start =July 1, 2004
term_end =Present
birth_date =1957
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predecessor =John McCardell, Jr.
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alumnus =Bucknell University
Columbia University
residence =Middlebury, Vermont
profession =Professor
website = [http://www.middlebury.edu/about/president/ Office of the President]
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Ronald D. Liebowitz (born 1957) is the current president of Middlebury College, and a professor of geography. He was named the College's sixteenth president in April 2004, succeeding John McCardell, Jr. on July 1, 2004. [ [http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/2004/Liebowitz_pres.htm Ronald D. Liebowitz becomes Middlebury's 16th president ] ]

Liebowitz had previously served as provost and Dean of the Faculty. An expert in Russian economic and political geography, he began teaching at Middlebury in 1984. [ [http://www.middlebury.edu/about/president/biography/ President's Biography ] ] His first Middlebury experience was as a Language School student in 1980 and 1981.

A native of Brooklyn, Liebowitz received his undergraduate degree from Bucknell University in 1979 and completed his postgraduate work at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in geography in 1985. Liebowitz and his wife, Jessica, have three young children.

Presidency

Liebowitz is Middlebury's third faculty member to be named president, following McCardell and 19th century alumnus Ezra Brainerd. In his first year, he shaped the agreement that brought the Monterey Institute of International Studies under affiliation with Middlebury, and began a comprehensive strategic planning process. Liebowitz kicked off The Middlebury Initiative in October 2007; the largest capital campaign ever by a liberal arts college, the Initiative will raise $500 million to support the strategic plan's primary goals of financial aid and additional faculty.

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