Yale Academics, College Founder, & Presidents

Frederick Barnard (BA 1828) mathematician, educator, president from 1856 to 1858. chancellor 1858 to 1861 of the University of Mississippi; president (1864 to 1889) of Columbia University, namesake for Barnard College, active in the founding of American Association fro the Advancement of Science & the National Academy of Sciences.

J. Seelye Bixler (Ph.D. 1924) 16th president of Colby College from 1960 to 1979.

Samuel Palmer Brooks, President from Baylor University from 1902 to 1931.

Gerhard Casper (LLB 1962) honorary doctorate 2000; 9th president of Stanford University, former provost at the University of Chicago, member of the Yale Corporation.

William Chauvenet (BA 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri from 1863 to 1869.

Henry Roe Cloud, first full-blooded Native American to attend Yale, reformer, educator, President of the Haskell Indian Nations University, First Native American member of the Yale secret society (Elihu).

Oscar Henry Cooper, President of Baylor University from 1899 to 1902, and of Simmons College, now known as Hardin-Simmons University from 1902 to 1909.

Raymond Culver; fourth president of Shimer College.

Jonathan Dickinson (BA 1706) when Yale was Collegiate School of Connecticut; founder of College of New Jersey and later renamed Princeton University.

Henry Durant (BA 1827) first president of the University of California at Berkeley.

James Johnson Duderstadt (BE 1964) President of the University of Michigan.

Peter Tyrrell Flawn (Ph.D. 1951) geologist and former president of the University of Texas at Austin.

Edward "Tad" Foote (BA) former president of the University of Miami.

Thomas H. Gallaudet (BA 1805, MA 1810) educator for the dead, co-founder and principal (1817 to 1830) of the American School for the Deaf, namesake of the Gallaudet University.

Thomas F. George (MA 1968, Ph.D. 1970) chemist and present chancellor of the University of Missouri in St. Louis.

Daniel Coit Gilman (BA 1852) 2nd president of the University of California at Berkeley; first president of John Hopkins University from 1876 to 1901; first president of the Carnegie Institution.

William Rainey Harper (Ph.D. 1874) first president of the University of Chicago.

Catharine Bond Hill (Ph.D. 1974) 10th president of Vassar College.

Robert M. Hutchins (BA 1921, LLB 1925) president 1929 to 1945 and chancellor from 1945 to 1951 at the University of Chicago.

Samuel Johnson (BA 1714) first president of Columbia University known as King's College; father of US Senator William Samuel Johnson.

William Samuel Johnson (BA 1744, MA 1747) son of Samuel Johnson; president from 1787 to 1800 of Columbia University. US Senator for Connecticut from 1789-1791.

Yamakawa Kenjiro (circa 1876) founder of Kytishu Institute of Technology.

Aptullah Kuran (BA 1952, MA 1954) first president & founder of Bogaziiei University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Theodore C. Landsmark (BA 1973, J.D. 1973) president (1997 to present) Boston Architectural College.

Douglas C. North (BA 1962) President of Prescott College & Alaska Pacific University, Head of School, The Albany Academies.

G. Dennis O'Brien (BA 1952) former president of Bucknell University & University of Rochester.

Aurelia H. Reinhardt (Ph.D. 1905) president of Mills College in Berkeley, California from 1916 to 1943.

Andrew Sledd (Ph.D. 1903) 1st President of the University of Florida (1905 to 1909); President of Southern University (1910 to 1914); first professor of New Testament Literature at Emory University's Candler School for Theology (1914 to 1939).

Ambrose Tighe (BA 1879, MA 1891) co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law.

Andrew Dickson White (BA 1853) co-founder & first president of Cornell University.

Eleazar Wheelock (BA 1733) founder of Dartmouth College.