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Dr. Benjamin Ladner
Benjamin Ladner was the President of American University in Washington, D.C from 1994 to 2005. As President, Dr. Ladner led the transformation of AU into a distinctive, global university with a reputation as "a private university with a public responsibility." AU is now one of the world's most diverse campuses, with students from 150 nations and all 50 states. Dr. Ladner brought significant reform to AU, reorganizing administrative and academic structures, streamlining budgets, and expanding international outreach. He boosted enrollments and student quality, invigorated fundraising, increased minority faculty and staff, raised faculty and staff salaries, and implemented widespread technological innovations. His comprehensive facilities development program has changed the face of the campus, with major renovations to more than 70 percent of the campus, including new homes for four of AU's six schools and colleges, plus award-winning landscape improvements. Dr. Ladner chaired the Board of Trustees of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, comprised of 14 colleges and universities, with 130,000 students. Dr. Ladner was president of the National Faculty, a national association of university professors founded by Phi Beta Kappa, based in Atlanta, GA. He has also been a professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
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