Walter Robert Connor

Mr. W. Robert Connor is the Senior Advisor at the Teagle Foundation, Inc. He graduated from Hamilton College, and after a stint in Oxford, received his PhD in Classics from Princeton in 1961.  A few years later, he returned to Princeton, where he taught and administered until 1989, when he became the president and director of the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina. His belief that such learning can – and must – be brought to higher level is reflected in the foundation’s grant initiatives in Value-Added Assessment, Fresh Thinking for Liberal Education, Big Questions of Meaning and Value, and College-Community Connections. He is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and is the recipient of the Allen P. Splete Award and Howard Behrman Award.