Career
Ladner began his academic career as a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he taught for more than a decade. While there, Ladner won the University Teaching Excellence Award and was elected to the National Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences in 1975, an association of university professors founded by Phi Beta Kappa. He served as its president from 1980-1994.
In 1994, Ladner became president of American University. By the time of his departure in 2005, the school had become, according to Ladner's own LinkedIn profile, an international leader in global education and Ladner’s administration had engineered historic records in every area throughout the university, including academic quality, national educational rankings, athletic championships, fundraising, endowment growth, enrollment numbers and quality, campus renovation, diversity of students, technology innovation, and faculty, and alumni support.
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