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Robert
A. Walton Announced as Chief Executive Officer for
Claremont University Consortium
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The election of Robert A. Walton as Chief Executive Officer
for Claremont University Consortium was announced today by
Robert E. Gipson, Chairman of the CUC Board of Overseers.
Mr. Walton will assume the position July 1, 2007. Claremont
University Consortium (CUC) is the central coordinating
institution of The Claremont Colleges, of which Pomona
College is the founding member.
Robert Walton has been Vice President for Finance and
Business at The College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, since
1999. At Wooster, he oversees an annual operating budget of
$90 million and is responsible for managing all non-academic
services and functions, including auxiliary operations,
information technology, human resources, contract
management, and management of the College’s endowment.
During Mr. Walton’s term as Vice President, more than $92M
in capital projects were initiated or completed, including
renovation and new construction. In addition, Bob has served
as the College’s representative to key collaborative
efforts, including the Operating Committee of the Ohio Five
Colleges, Inc. [Wooster, Kenyon, Ohio Wesleyan, Oberlin, and
Denison].
Previous to Wooster, Mr. Walton served as Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer at Innovative
Interfaces, Inc., a leading supplier of information
technology to university and government markets, for whom he
opened and managed offices in the United Kingdom, Sweden,
Spain, and Taiwan. He has also worked for the Texas State
Library and Archives Commission as a librarian and director
of the Data Processing and Technology Center, and
concurrently served as an adjunct faculty member at the
University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library
and Information Science.
Mr. Walton has both Bachelor of Science and Master of
Library and Information Science degrees from the University
of Texas at Austin. Mr. Walton presently serves on several
corporate boards, including iPost Corporation, the Seaman
Corporation, and Abbott Capital Private Equity Investments,
Inc. He is an elected member of the Wooster City School
Board, and is a former chairman of the Wooster Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors.
Reg Gipson, Chairman of the CUC Board of Overseers, in
announcing Mr. Walton’s election, stated, “The CUC Board of
Overseers is unanimous in their support of Mr. Walton. All
agree he brings a combination of experience and talents to
provide exceptional leadership for CUC in the years ahead.”
Brenda Barham Hill will continue to serve as CEO of CUC
through January 31, 2007. Arrangements for interim executive
leadership through June 2007 will be announced later this
month. Mr. Gipson added his appreciation for the excellent
leadership provided by Dr. Hill during her six years of
leadership of CUC during a crucial period in its
development.
Claremont University Consortium (CUC) is the central
coordinating institution of The Claremont Colleges. As such,
CUC provides common services for the internationally
renowned cluster of two graduate and five undergraduate
colleges serving more than 6,000 students. The consortium
offers the expansive physical facilities and wide selection
of courses, faculty, student services and extracurricular
activities of a university, and the personalized education
of small private colleges. The Consortium includes Pomona
College (established in 1887), Claremont Graduate University
(1925), Scripps College (1926), Claremont McKenna College
(1946), Harvey Mudd College (1955), Pitzer College (1963),
and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Science
(1997) and Claremont University Consortium (1925).
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