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No more welcome back Cotter!
 

The Colby community is deeply saddened by the loss of William R. Cotter, Colby College’s 18th and longest-serving president who guided the College through a period of brisk growth and lasting institutional change from his appointment in 1979 until he retired in 2000. A Life Trustee, Cotter died March 9, 2023, his 87th birthday

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Robert Zimmer, former University president of the University of Chicago, dead at 75:

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/obituaries/former-university-chicago-president-robert-zimmer-has-died

 

Pick in a couple of pools on this site. He retired for health reasons a year ago, then sold his house.

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Charles Edward Young was born in Highland, California and died at age 91 in Sonoma, California. Young led the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for 29 years as president and the University of Florida for more than four years as president. in the US Air Force during the Korean War

https://dailybruin.com/2023/10/22/former-ucla-chancellor-charles-e-young-dies-at-age-91

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Lee Eliot Berk has died at age 81 was an American academic who was president and namesake of Berklee College of Music (founded as Schillinger House in 1945 by his father, Lawrence Berk, who renamed the school in Lee's honor in 1954) from 1979. Under Under young Berk's leadership, the college underwent significant changes. Berklee has expanded its curriculum to create new courses, including film scoring, music production and engineering, music synthesis, music composition, music management/business, and music therapy

 

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Bill W. Stacy died on January 4, 2024, at age 85. He was the founding president of California State University San Marcos from 1989 to 1997 and served as president of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1997 to 2004. From 2004 to 2009 served as principal of Baylor School in Chattanooga

https://www.fordandsonsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Bill-Stacy/#!/Obituary

Bill W. Stacy

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Claire Fagin (wiki), the first woman to serve as a president of an Ivy League university, dead at 97.

 

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4 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Michael Lovell, the current president of Marquette University, has died. He was 57. Lovell had held the position since 2014. He had been battling sarcoma.

 

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2024/06/09/marquette-president-michael-lovell-dies/74038897007/

Seems to have been sudden, considering him and his wife were planning a trip to Portugal according to the article, for this month no less.

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Joseph L. Levesque was born in North Tarrytown, New York and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the 25th president of Niagara University, serving from March 2000 to 2013. Levesque was named interim president of St. John's University, an appointment that began on August 1, 2013, and ended in 2014

https://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/current/2024/06/24/160299/niagara-university-president-emeritus-the-rev.-joseph-l.-levesque-c.m.-passes-away

The Rev. Joseph L. Levesque, C.M. (Niagara University photo)

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James Duderstadt, who was president of the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996, has died. He was 81. Nicknamed "The Dude",  the former president is the namesake of the Duderstadt Center on the university’s North Campus.

 

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/08/former-university-of-michigan-president-known-as-the-dude-has-died.html

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