Leo Michael Lambert
Leo Michael Lambert, Ph.D. (born June 30, 1955 in Schenectady, New York) is the eighth President of Elon University, a private university located in Elon, North Carolina.
Since becoming Elon University’s eighth president in January 1999, Leo M. Lambert has advanced an ambitious agenda to establish Elon as a top-ranked liberal arts university. The academic climate of the campus has been strengthened through major investments in faculty development, library resources, honors and fellows programs for outstanding students, study abroad programs, undergraduate research, volunteer service and leadership education.
In 2001 Elon College became Elon University, and the NewCentury@Elon strategic plan was developed under President Lambert’s leadership. During his tenure, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, was established from three formerly separate divisions to emphasize the centrality of the arts and sciences at Elon. In addition, the School of Communications and the School of Education moved from departmental to school status. In 2006, Dr. Lambert led the drive to open the Elon University School of Law in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
New facilities constructed during President Lambert’s tenure include Carol Grotnes Belk Library, Rhodes Stadium, Belk Track and White Field, the six-building Academic Village, Ernest A. Koury Sr. Business Center, Ellington Health Center, The Oaks residence hall complex, Colonnades Dining Hall and the Colonnades residence halls, and several new residence halls and a commons building in Danieley Center. The university has expanded to include the 75-acre (300,000 m2) South Campus.
President Lambert has assumed a number of leadership roles regionally and nationally, serving on the national and North Carolina boards of Campus Compact and as a founding board member and president’s council chair of Project Pericles, a national organization that encourages students to become civically engaged in their communities. Elon has twice been named one of the nation’s top universities for community service in the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
President Lambert has provided leadership on athletics issues, serving as a member of the NCAA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Division I Athletics and chairing the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification.
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