Arturo Madrid

Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University. From 1984 to 1993 he served as the founding president of the Tomás Rivera Center, the nation's first institute for policy studies on Latino issues. In addition to holding academic and administrative appointments at Dartmouth College, the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Minnesota, he has also served as Director of the Fund of the Improvement of Post- Secondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education and of the Ford Foundation's Graduate Fellowships Program. Over the past two decades Dr. Madrid has served on the boards of some of the country's most prominent organizations, including among others: the College Board, the Association for the Advancement of Higher Education, the Council for Basic Education, the Center for Early Adolescence, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the National Center for Education and the Economy, and the National Civic League. Madrid received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Los Angeles and holds honorary doctorates from New England College and the California State University, Hayward, and is an elected fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, the nation's premier foreign policy association, and of the National Academy for Public Administration, which honors persons with distinguished records in public administration. In January 1997 he was awarded the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The award, which honored "his outstanding contributions in developing the intellectual resources of the Latino community and pioneering scholarship on Chicano literary and cultural expression," was presented by President Clinton in Washington, D.C. In May 1997 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Mount Holyoke College.