Hunter Ripley Rawlings papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3-13-2843

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, subject files, administrative working papers, and other records of the President of Cornell University.

Dates

1995-2006.

Creator

Rawlings, Hunter R. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access Restrictions:

Access restricted to the permission of the office of origin. Consult the University Archivist. Restriction reviews may take up to a month for completion.

Use Restrictions:

Due to the nature of electronic records, use of all born digital content on physical media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, zip disks, and external hard drives is limited to digital copies.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Hunter R. Rawlings III was a 1966 graduate of Haverford College, with honors in classics, and received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1970. His scholarly publications include a book, The Structure of Thucydides’ History (Princeton University Press, 1981). After serving as president of the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1995, Rawlings began his appointment as Cornell University’s president. A national spokesperson for higher education, he has served as chair of the Ivy Council of Presidents and of the Association of American Universities, and was a member of the American Council on Education board. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of managers of his alma mater, Haverford College, and on the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He also serves on the boards of the National Humanities Center and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

At the conclusion of his presidency in 2003, Rawlings was elected president emeritus and began serving as a full-time professor in Cornell’s Departments of Classics and History. He was then was appointed by the Board of Trustees to serve as interim president of Cornell after Jeffrey Lehman resigned as the university’s president. In 2016, he once again took on the role of interim president upon the death of President Elizabeth Garrett.

See the Cornell Office of the President website for more information about the Presidency of Hunter R. Rawlings III.