Barry Mills
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Barry Mills (born September 8, 1950) is the 14th president of Bowdoin College and the fifth one to be an alumnus.
[edit] Backround
A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Mills graduated Cum Laude from Bowdoin in 1972 and then went on to pursue graduate degrees at Syracuse University in 1976 and the Columbia University School of Law in 1979. Upon graduating, he soon began working at the law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton, where he became a partner in 1986.
[edit] Career
A member of the Board of Trustees from 1994 through 2000, Mills became president of Bowdoin in October 2001. Since then, Mills has dramatically changed Bowdoin's curriculum and campus. As part of a master plan first presented in 2002, the college has built new residential dorms, a recital hall, and has undergone a highly publicized renovation to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Additionally a new hockey arena is slated to be finished by the 2009 academic season. In 2008, Bowdoin set a record low rate of admissions for the class of 2012 at 18% and was recognized as "School of the Year" by College Prowler.
