President of Oberlin College
The President of Oberlin College is the chief administrator of both Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current incumbent is Carmen Twillie Ambar. As part of Oberlin's inherent mission of a vastly interdisciplinary education, presidents have been chosen from a wide range of fields as diverse as musical performance, theology physics, law, athletics and pure mathematics. Thus, each president is a qualified academic professor who has the opportunity to teach classes.
Presidents of Oberlin College
The following persons have served as president of Oberlin College:| No. | Image | President | Term start | Term end | |
| acting | Henry Brown | 1834 | 1834 | ||
| acting | John Keep | 1834 | 1835 | ||
| 1 | Asa Mahan | 1835 | 1850 | ||
| acting | Charles Grandison Finney | 1849 | 1849 | ||
| acting | John Morgan | 1850 | 1850 | ||
| 2 | Charles Grandison Finney | 1851 | 1866 | ||
| acting | John Morgan | 1859 | 1859 | ||
| 3 | James Fairchild | 1866 | 1889 | ||
| acting | Frances Drake Parish | 1871 | 1871 | ||
| acting | John Millott Ellis | 1871 | 1871 | ||
| acting | Henry Martyn Tenney | 1889 | 1891 | ||
| 4 | William Gay Ballantine | 1891 | 1896 | ||
| acting | James Harris Fairchild | 1896 | 1898 | ||
| 5 | John Henry Barrows | 1899 | June 3, 1902 | ||
| acting | John Guiteau Welch Cowles | 1902 | 1902 | ||
| 6 | Henry Churchill King | 1902 | 1927 | ||
| acting | Henry Martyn Tenney | 1909 | 1910 | ||
| acting | Edward Increase Bosworth | 1918 | 1919 | ||
| 7 | Ernest H. Wilkins | 1927 | 1946 | ||
| 8 | William Stevenson | 1946 | 1960 | ||
| acting | William Blair Stewart | December 1952 | March 1953 | ||
| acting | Donald Melbourne Love | June 1959 | September 1959 | ||
| 9 | Robert K. Carr | 1960 | 1969 | ||
| acting | Ellsworth Clayton Carlson | 1969 | 1970 | ||
| 10 | Robert W. Fuller | 1970 | 1974 | ||
| acting | Ellsworth Clayton Carlson | 1974 | 1975 | ||
| 11 | Emil Danenberg | April 1975 | January 16, 1982 | ||
| acting | James Lawrence Powell | September 1981 | July 1983 | ||
| 12 | S. Frederick Starr | July 1, 1983 | June 30, 1994 | ||
| acting | Alfred F. MacKay | July 1991 | February 1992 | ||
| 13 | Nancy Dye | July 1, 1994 | June 30, 2007 | ||
| acting | Clayton R. Koppes | July 2000 | December 2000 | ||
| 14 | Marvin Krislov | July 1, 2007 | June 30, 2017 | ||
| acting | Clayton R. Koppes | July 1, 2017 | August 31, 2017 | ||
| 15 | Carmen Twillie Ambar | September 1, 2017 | present |
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