President Elected Chair of APCU

Westminster College President R. Thomas Williamson was elected as the new chair of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (ACPU) at the organization's annual meeting last month. His term will run through April 2008.

Williamson has served on the APCU board since 2003. Williamson became Westminster's 13th president in July 1997 after serving 15 years as part of Clarkson University's executive staff. He worked in corporate new products and the legal departments of McCormick & Company from 1970-76 before serving as the director of the Economic Development & Technical Assistance Center at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh from 1976-82.

After graduating from the College of Wooster in 1968, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1968-70. Williamson earned a Juris Doctorate in 1975 from the University of Baltimore.

APCU is an independent, not-for-profit, organization of 61 colleges and universities that are historically related to the Presbyterian Church (USA). The association exists to promote these institutions, to advocate the mission of higher education in the Reformed tradition, to strengthen the relationship of its member colleges with the PC(USA) and to be a resource to the member college presidents and their staffs.

Contact Gary Luhr, executive director of the APCU, at 1-888-728-7228 ext. 5364 or e-mail gluhr@ctr.pcusa.org for more information.

President R. Thomas Williamson