- Barry Mills
Infobox University President
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name =Barry Mills
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order =14th
university =President ofBowdoin College
term_start =2001
term_end =Present
birth_date =1950
birth_place =
death_date =
death_place =
predecessor =Robert Hazard Edwards
successor =
alumnus =Bowdoin CollegeSyracuse University Columbia University School of Law
residence =Brunswick, Maine
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website =http://www.bowdoin.edu/president/profile.shtmlnt]
footnotes =|Barry Mills (born September 8, 1950) is the fourteenth president of
Bowdoin College and the fifth one to be an alumnus.Background
A native of
Providence, Rhode Island , Mills joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and graduated Cum Laude from Bowdoin in 1972 and then went on to pursue graduate degrees atSyracuse University in 1976 and theColumbia University School of Law in 1979. Upon graduating, he soon began working at the law firm,Debevoise & Plimpton , where he became a partner in 1986.Career
A member of the Board of Trustees from 1994 through 2000, Mills became president of Bowdoin in October 2001. Since then, Mills has dramatically changed Bowdoin's curriculum and campus. As part of a master plan first presented in 2002, the college has built new residential dorms, a recital hall, and has undergone a highly publicized renovation to the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art . Additionally a new hockey arena is slated to be finished before the 2009 academic season. In 2008, Bowdoin set a record low rate of admissions for the class of 2012 at 18% and was recognized as "School of the Year" byCollege Prowler .External links
* http://www.bowdoin.edu/president/profile.shtml
* http://campuslife.collegeprowler.com/news_details.asp?article=118
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