1. Jonathan Veitch was born on 1959 and is an American college administrator, author and former professor.
19 Facts About Jonathan Veitch
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Jonathan Veitch was the 15th President of Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
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Jonathan Veitch became president in July 2009, succeeding interim president Robert Skotheim and ended his term in June 2020, followed by president Harry J Elam Jr.
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Jonathan Veitch authored American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s in 1997.
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Jonathan Veitch was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
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Jonathan Veitch attended Loyola High School in southern California before he received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in English and American Literature.
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Jonathan Veitch later received his doctoral degree in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University.
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In 1993, Jonathan Veitch became an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin.
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That same year, Jonathan Veitch moved to New York and became an associate professor at The New School, teaching courses in cultural history, American history and American film pertaining to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Jonathan Veitch was named Dean of Eugene Lang College in 2004, where he remained for a tenure of four years before stepping down and becoming the president of Occidental College in 2009.
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Jonathan Veitch was elected to RMR Group Board of Directors in summer 2020.
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Jonathan Veitch is the first president of Occidental College to be a native Angeleno, having been born in Los Angeles.
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Jonathan Veitch succeeded Robert Skotheim as the fifteenth president of the college on June 30,2009.
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Jonathan Veitch has worked to improve relations between the College and the surrounding community, limiting expansion of the campus into the community in response to neighborhood concerns.
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On his first anniversary at the college in August 2010, Jonathan Veitch hosted a public forum for Los Angeles activists and local officials to discuss the city's environmental future.
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Jonathan Veitch brought on Ella Turenne as the college's assistant dean of civic engagement.
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Jonathan Veitch announced the new name of Occidental's football stadium in 2011, which was renamed after alumnus Jack Kemp, former professional football player, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Republican in the US House of Representatives.
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Jonathan Veitch unveiled a new statue for the former student who died in 2009.
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Jonathan Veitch married Sarah Ann Baxter Kersh, the former director of international licensing and distribution for Calvin Klein, in December 1992.