Ralph Hexter
| Ralph J. Hexter | |
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Hexter at the Gala Event in 2012 celebrating 50 years of achievement at the UC Davis College of Engineering
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| Acting Chancellor University of California, Davis | |
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Assumed office April 27, 2016 |
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| 5th President of Hampshire College | |
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In office 2005–2010 |
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| Preceded by | Gregory S. Prince, Jr. |
| Succeeded by |
Jonathan Lash Marlene Gerber Fried (interim) |
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| Born | August 25, 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Manfred Kollmeier (m. 2007) |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (A.B., 1974) Corpus Christi College, Oxford (M.A/B.A., 1977/1982) Yale University (M.Phil./Ph.D., 1979/1982) |
Ralph Jay Hexter (born 1952) is the Acting Chancellor of the University of California, Davis. He is a classics scholar and the former fifth president of Hampshire College.
Hexter received an A.B. in English literature from Harvard College in 1974. He then studied in England, where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in classics and modern languages at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1977 and 1982, respectively. He also earned an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Hexter subsequently taught in the classics department at Yale from 1981 to 1991.
He taught classics and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Yale University. He was also the Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Hexter assumed the Hampshire College presidency on August 1, 2005, a post he relinquished on December 31, 2010.
He has been involved with the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philological Association, and the National Conference for Community and Justice.
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