President of Oberlin College

The President of Oberlin College is the chief administrator of both Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current incumbent is Carmen Twillie Ambar. As part of Oberlin's inherent mission of a vastly interdisciplinary education, presidents have been chosen from a wide range of fields as diverse as musical performance (Starr), theology (Finney) physics (Fuller), law (Krislov), athletics (Stevenson) and pure mathematics (King). Thus, each president is a qualified academic professor who has the opportunity to teach classes.

Presidents of Oberlin College

 * Asa Mahan, 1835–1850
 * Charles Grandison Finney, leader in the Second Great Awakening, president 1851–1866
 * James Fairchild, 1866–1889
 * William Gay Ballantine, 1891–1896
 * John Henry Barrows, 1899–1902
 * Henry Churchill King, 1902–1927
 * Ernest H. Wilkins, 1927–1946
 * William Stevenson, 1946–1960
 * Robert K. Carr, 1960–1969
 * Robert W. Fuller, 1970–1974
 * Emil Danenberg, 1975–1982
 * S. Frederick Starr, 1983–1994
 * Nancy Dye, 1994–2007
 * Marvin Krislov, 2007–2017
 * Carmen Twillie Ambar, 2017–present