This list of presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma includes all twenty-two of the people who have served as the president of the University of Central Oklahoma since the institution was founded in 1890.
The University of Central Oklahoma is a public university, created and supported by the State of Oklahoma, and it is a designated "Regional University" within the Regional University System of Oklahoma. The campus of the university is located in Edmond, and it has facilities in Oklahoma City.[1]
The current president of the University of Central Oklahoma is Todd Lamb. Using the university's counting method (acting or "interim" presidents are not numbered), Lamb is the twenty-second president of the university. Twenty men and one woman have previously served as the university's permanent president, and three have served as its interim, or acting, president pending the appointment of a new permanent president.
No. | President[2] | Years |
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1 | Richard Thatcher | 1891–1893 |
2 | George Winans | 1893–1894 |
3 | E.R. Williams | 1894–1895 |
4 | Edmund Murdaugh | 1895–1901 |
5 | Frederick Umholtz | 1901–1906 |
6 | Thomas W. Butcher | 1906–1908 |
7 | James McLauchlin | 1908–1911 |
8 | Charles Evans | 1911–1916 |
9 | Grant Grumbine | 1916–1917 |
10 | James W. Graves | 1917–1919 |
11 | John Gordon Mitchell | 1919–1931 |
12 | Malcom Beeson | 1931–1935 |
– | Cliff Otto | 1935 |
13 | John O. Moseley | 1935–1939 |
14 | Roscoe R. Robinson | 1939–1948 |
– | George Huckaby | 1948 |
15 | W. Max Chambers | 1948–1960 |
16 | Garland Godfrey | 1960–1975 |
17 | Bill Lillard | 1975–1992 |
18 | George Nigh | 1992–1997 |
19 | W. Roger Webb | 1997–2011 |
20 | Don Betz | 2011–2019 |
21 | Patti Neuhold–Ravikumar | 2019–2023 |
– | Andrew K. Benton | 2023 |
22 | Todd Lamb | 2023–present |
References
edit- ^ "About University of Central Oklahoma". University of Central Oklahoma. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
- ^ "Presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma". University of Central Oklahoma. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.