Charles R. Middleton served as the President of
Roosevelt University from 2002 to 2015 when he retired.
Biography
Middleton graduated with his bachelor's degree from
Florida State University
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.
He received both his master's degree and Doctorate from
Duke University
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.
He served as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the
University System of Maryland, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at
Bowling Green State University, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
In 2002 he became the President of
Roosevelt University.
He is a member of the
Royal Historical Society, the
American Historical Association, the
North American Conference on British Studies
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among others.
He served on the board of the
American Council on Education and the
Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities.
He has also been involved with the
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
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, the Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid Committee, the
Chicago Loop Alliance, the
Roosevelt Institute, the
Center on Halsted
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The center is located in the Lakeview neighborhood on the corner of Halsted Street a ...
, the
Chicago Central Area Committee, the
Near South Planning Board, the
Point Foundation and the
Chicago History Museum Community Advisory Council,
Rotary One, the
Economic Club of Chicago, the
Executives' Club, the
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Equality Illinois, and the
Human Rights Campaign
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.
He serves on the Boards of SAGE USA and PFLAG National. He is a signatory of the
Amethyst Initiative
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The National Mi ...
. From 2015 to 2017 he served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the City Colleges of Chicago.
He is openly
gay.
In November 2006, Dr. Middleton was elected to the
Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
In spring 2010 he gave the keynote address at the conference "25 Years After: GLBT in Higher Education" at Texas A&M University, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the legal decision forcing Texas A&M to recognize Gay Student Services as an official student organization.
Bibliography
*''The Administration of British Foreign Policy, 1782-1846''
References
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Living people
1944 births
Duke University alumni
Florida State University alumni
University System of Maryland people
Bowling Green State University faculty
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Roosevelt University faculty
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
LGBT people from Kansas