William Craft

President, Concordia College

William Craft was recently selected as the President of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.  Prior to his election as President, he served as the Dean of Luther College and Vice President for Academic Affairs, holding a faculty appointment as Professor of English. His scholarly work on early modern poetry and prose includes a book on Philip Sidney, and his academic leadership has focused on curriculum reform, faculty development and workload, institutional diversity, and institutional planning. A member of the ACAD Executive Board and the Wye Seminar Board, he is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at national meetings for deans and faculty. He has played an active role in devising and sustaining the Midwestern Alliance for Learning in the Liberal Arts, a group of seven colleges devoted to cross-institutional evaluation of student learning. Craft earned his doctorate in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been a Fellow of the Newberry Library and the American Council on Education. In the summer of 2008 he completed the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University.