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Oberlin College Names Marvin Krislov as its 14th President *Editors note: images available upon request May 15 , 2007 -- The Oberlin College Board of Trustees announced today that Marvin Krislov will become the College’s 14th president. Mr. Krislov, Vice President and General Counsel at the University of Michigan, will take office on July 1, 2007, and will make the transition to Oberlin during the months of July and August. He will be on campus full time beginning August 6. Of the new president, Robert Lemle, chair of the Presidential Search Committee and of Oberlin’s Board of Trustees, says: “We are delighted to announce Marvin Krislov as Oberlin’s next president. He is superbly qualified to provide outstanding leadership that celebrates and builds on Oberlin’s distinctive strengths, and furthers its mission of achieving academic, artistic, and musical excellence. Throughout his distinguished career, he has embraced a commitment to access to higher education and diversity that is very much in tune with the history and values of the College.” For the last nine years, Mr. Krislov has served as Vice President and General Counsel of the University of Michigan and as a member of the President’s Cabinet. He spearheaded the recent landmark University of Michigan cases in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of diversity considerations in college and university admissions. Mr. Krislov was also an adjunct professor at Michigan, teaching two undergraduate courses each year in the Department of Political Science, a seminar in the university’s law school, and a course in its Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Summer Program. He served on a variety of academically oriented boards within the university and was co-chair of the President’s Initiative on Ethics in Public Life, a major interdisciplinary initiative to integrate academic study with ethics-related issues in society. A unanimous choice of the Presidential Search Committee, Mr. Krislov has expressed a deep appreciation for Oberlin’s commitment to liberal arts education. “Oberlin is one of our nation’s greatest institutions of higher education,” says Mr. Krislov. “The College’s historic commitment to inclusion, as well as to intellectual rigor and artistic excellence, clearly thrives on the campus today. Oberlin continues to attract students and faculty from around the world who are recognized for making significant and lasting contributions to society. I look forward to working with Oberlin's community of leaders, scholars, and artists, and to becoming a passionate advocate for its vision and its values.” Prior to his arrival at Michigan, Mr. Krislov served as Acting Solicitor (the third ranking department official) and Deputy Solicitor for National Operations at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. There, he oversaw a department with 700 employees with a budget of over $70 million. Prior to that, Mr. Krislov served as Associate Counsel to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office. Mr. Krislov graduated from Yale University in 1982 and served as a New Haven alderman following his graduation. A Rhodes Scholar, he earned a master’s degree in modern history at Oxford University’s Magdalen College in 1985. He earned a Juris Doctor degree at Yale University in 1988. The nationwide search for Oberlin’s 14th president began last summer when Nancy S. Dye announced her retirement from the presidency effective June 30, 2007. A search committee, which included representatives from the Board of Trustees, alumni, faculty, staff, and the student body, solicited nominations, closely reviewed the credentials of the candidates, and conducted extensive interviews. Oberlin, which was founded in 1833, is widely regarded as one of the nation’s foremost liberal arts colleges. Comprised of two divisions—a College of Arts and Sciences (2,200 students) and a Conservatory of Music (600 students)—it was the nation’s first coeducational college, the first to offer college-level degrees to women, and the first to establish a formal policy to admit students of color. Oberlin’s academic program of more than 1,000 courses is considered one of the strongest undergraduate curriculums in the nation. Its graduates, among whom are three Nobel laureates and six MacArthur “genius grant” recipients, have gone on to receive more PhDs than graduates of any comparable college by almost a two-to-one margin. Its students are accepted into law and medical schools at a rate roughly twice the national average. - ### - Media Contacts: Alan Moran Scott Wargo < back to current press releases
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