Roger H. Martin
Roger Martin (born 1943), also known as Rusty, served as the 14th president of Randolph-Macon College, an independent liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, from July 1997 until January 2006. He is the author of Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again (University of California Press: 2008) which tells the story of his six month sabbatical at St. John's College, the Great Books School, in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2004 where he enrolled as a 61 year old freshman. At St. John's he read Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, and Herodotus, and went out for crew, racing at the Head of the Occoquan with eight teenagers. Today, he is president of Academic Collaborations Inc., a higher education consulting firm. He also serves as Deputy Chair of the British Schools and Universities Foundation in New York City.
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