Celebrating Our Honorees
2011 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient
Dr. Wallace D. Loh
President University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Wallace D. Loh accepted an appointment to serve as the president of the University of Maryland, College Park in November 2010. The university is among the top 20 public universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. With 37,000 students, it is the largest public institution of higher education in Maryland.
Dr. Loh has more than 30 years of experience in higher education and brings to Maryland an exceptionally strong and diverse background as an accomplished senior university executive, lawyer, and public servant. He served as the executive vice president and provost of The University of Iowa, dean and professor of public service and psychology at Seattle University, director of policy and chief policy adviser for the State of Washington’s Office of the Governor, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of faculties at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and dean and professor of law at the University of Washington Law School. Dr. Loh served on the faculty at the University of Washington Law School prior to his appointment as dean.
Dr. Loh was born in Shanghai, China. He immigrated with his family to Lima, Peru, graduated from high school there, and immigrated alone to Iowa in 1961, supporting himself through higher education. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, an M.A. in psychology from Cornell University, and a B.A. in psychology from Grinnell College. Among his distinctions and awards are his election as president of the Association of American Law Schools, the 1993 National Asian-Pacific American Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award, and honorary degrees from Grinnell College and Iowa Wesleyan College. The students of the University of Washington Law School named him Outstanding Professor of the Year.
Dr. Loh is married and has a daughter at Occidental College in California.
May 23, 2011, Montgomery College 64th Commencement. © Copyright 2011 Montgomery College. All rights reserved.