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Herman E. Collier, Jr., Senior Consultant |
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Dr. Herman E. Collier, Jr., senior consultant, resides and works in Southern Pines, North Carolina, conducting three searches a year for Academic Search. Before joining us he served at Moravian College for 25 years, 17 of them in a notably successful presidency. While president, he held several statewide and national leadership positions, including the chairmanship of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Foundation for Independent Colleges, and was a member of the task force responsible for the Higher Education Plan of Pennsylvania. At Academic Search, Collier has completed 15 searches, each of them successful, across a range of four-year institutions, many of them in the South and several of them church-related. Client boards praise his diligence, steadiness, and good sense about candidates. The institutions he has served include colleges such as Wabash, Morningside, and Reinhardt, plus one medical, three theological schools, and The Fund for Theological Education. Collier brings to all his searches a deep knowledge and appreciation of the presidency. In addition to his service at Moravian (President Emeritus), he has been interim president of four North Carolina colleges---Salem Academy and College, North Carolina Wesleyan, Chowan, and Lees-McRae. He remains a trustee of Salem. He holds several honorary degrees. His earned degrees are from Randolph-Macon and Lehigh (Ph.D. in chemistry). Prior to his higher education career, Collier was a research chemist in the organic chemicals division of E.I. duPont de Nemours Company. |
