UR names Hallock as its new president
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The University of Richmond has named Kevin F. Hallock its next president.
University Rector Paul Queally and Vice Rector Susan G. Quisenberry, the co-chairs of a search committee, made the announcement by email Thursday.
Hallock, 52, is dean and professor of strategy and business economics at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1991) and Princeton University (1993 and 1995). He will join the University of Richmond for the 2021-22 academic year and also will serve as an economics professor in the Robins School of Business, with affiliated appointments in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law program in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Current UR President Ronald Crutcher, who has served in the role for six years, announced in September that he would be retiring as president by mid-2022 at the latest. Upon Hallock’s appointment, Crutcher will serve as president emeritus and as a professor.
Hallock is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the United States. He earned a B.A. in economics at UMass and an M.A. and Ph.D. at Princeton.
He began his career as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joined the Cornell faculty in 2005. He also has served as chair of the economics and labor economics departments at Cornell.
“Dr. Hallock is widely admired across Cornell as a highly collaborative decision-maker, an adroit problem solver, an exceptional university citizen, and an invaluable colleague,” Queally and Quisenberry wrote in their email. “Dr. Hallock is known as a student-centered leader who views all decisions through the lens of the impact on the student experience and student success.
The two wrote that Hallock was drawn to Richmond because of its “combination of an outstanding liberal arts education with excellent professional schools, the creative work and research of the faculty and Richmond’s deep commitment to excellence in teaching, the intellectual energy and curiosity of the community, the excitement of successful Division I competition, and the intense focus on the holistic development of students and care for their well-being.”
