Kenneth P. Mortimer is a scholar who was president of

Western Washington University Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, succeeding a pri ...

from 1988 to 1993, and the eleventh president of the

University of Hawaiʻi The University of Hawaiʻi System, formally the University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as UH, is a public college and university system that confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven com ...

system and chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at

Manoa Mānoa (, ) is a valley and a residential neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. The neighborhood is approximately three miles (5 km) east and inland from downtown Honolulu and less than a mile (1600 m) from Ala Moana and Waikiki at . Neighbo ...

from 1993 to 2001. He received a

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and

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from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and a PhD from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

. He previously worked for

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. He is a well-known scholar in the area of

educational administration Academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities. Some t ...

. Currently he is engaged in writing, consulting, and serving on boards. He is the author of several books including ''The Art and Politics of Academic Governance: Relations among Boards, Presidents, and Faculty''.

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Living people Presidents of the University of Hawaii System Leaders of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Pennsylvania State University faculty Western Washington University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-academic-administrator-stub