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Dr. William Kirwan, chancellor emeritus of the University System of
Maryland, is a senior fellow at the Association of Governing Boards of
Universities and Colleges and serves as chair of the National Research
Council Board of Higher Education and Workforce and co-chair of the
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. He previously served
as president of The Ohio State University and the University of
Maryland and is a board member of the Maryland Chamber of
Commerce, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore and Maryland
Business Roundtable for Education, among other organizations. An
international speaker and respected author on several key higher
education issues, including access, affordability, innovation, economic
development and academic transformation, Kirwan holds baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees
in mathematics.
Dr. Kirwan is past chair of, among other boards, the American Council for Higher Education, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, the American Association of Colleges & Universities, the Business Higher Education Forum and the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce. He also served as the co-chair and chair of Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics from 2004 to 2016. Presently, he chairs a Statewide Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, which has been asked to make recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly that would enable Maryland schools to perform at the level of the world’s best school systems.
Among Dr. Kirwan's many honors is the 2010 TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence. Considered one of the nation's top higher education honors, this award recognizes outstanding leadership in higher education and contributions to the greater good. In 2009, he received the Carnegie Corporation Leadership Award, which included a $500,000 grant to support USM academic priorities. Dr. Kirwan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and inducted into the Baltimore Sun’s Maryland Business and Civic Hall of Fame in 2017. |