He previously served as vice-chair of the Centennial Conference, where he oversaw the search for the conference’s new executive director

McDaniel College President Roger N. Casey is the new chair of the Centennial Athletic Conference Presidents Council. He has also been appointed to the NCAA Division III Chancellors/Presidents Advisory Group.

As chair of the Centennial Conference, he works with the conference’s executive director and serves as the lead presidential representative for the 11 Centennial Conference institutions, including McDaniel, as well as Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Haverford, Muhlenberg, Swarthmore, Ursinus and Washington colleges, and Johns Hopkins University. His term runs for two years.

President Casey also represents the Centennial Conference on the NCAA Division III Chancellors/Presidents Advisory Group, where he serves alongside other presidents and chancellors from Division III conferences who are advisors to the Division III Presidents Council, the highest governing body in the division.

Previously, President Casey served as vice-chair of the Centennial Conference. In this role, he chaired the search for the conference’s new executive director, Portia Hoeg, who is the first African-American woman named commissioner at the Division III level. She became only the second full-time executive director in the 26-year history of the conference on April 15, 2019.

The ninth president of McDaniel College, President Casey is currently vice chair of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), independent higher education’s largest policy and advocacy group, and sits on the Board of Directors for the American Council on Education (ACE), the major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities. He previously served on the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) steering committee to assess the future of independent colleges.

As one of the longest-serving independent college presidents in the State of Maryland, he is also the former chair of the Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA), the voice of independent higher education in Maryland.

A Phi Beta Kappan and first-generation college graduate, he holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University and a bachelor’s degree from Furman University.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

McDaniel College, founded in 1867, is a four-year, independent college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including pre-professional specializations and student-designed majors, and over 20 graduate programs. One of 40 “Colleges That Change Lives,” McDaniel emphasizes experiential learning and student-faculty collaboration to develop the unique potential in every student. Represented by the Green Terror, its 24 athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference. A student-centered community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students offers access to both Baltimore and Washington, D.C., plus a European campus in Budapest, Hungary. www.mcdaniel.edu