List of Presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma

This List of Presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma includes all seventeen of the men who have served as the president of the University of Central Oklahoma since the institution was founded in 1890.

The University of Central Oklahoma is a public university, created and supported by the State of Oklahoma, and it is a designated "Regional University" within the Regional University System of Oklahoma. The campus of the university is located in Edmond, and it has facilities in Oklahoma City.^[1]

The current president of the University of Central Oklahoma is Don Betz. Betz replaced W. Roger Webb on July 1, 2012. Using the university's counting method (acting or "interim" presidents are not numbered), Betz is the twentieth president of the university. Nineteen men have previously served as the university's permanent president, and two have served as its interim, or acting, president pending the appointment of a new permanent president.

	Presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma[2]	Presidential Years
1.	Richard Thatcher	1891–1893
2.	George Winans	1893–1894
3.	E.R. Williams	1894–1895
4.	Edmund Murdaugh	1895–1901
5.	Frederick Umholtz	1901–1906
6.	Thomas W. Butcher	1906–1908
7.	James McLauchlin	1908–1911
8.	Charles Evans	1911–1916
9.	Grant Grumbine	1916–1917
10.	James W. Graves	1917–1919
11.	John Gordon Mitchell	1919–1931
12.	Malcom Beeson	1931–1935
	Cliff Otto	1935
13.	John O. Moseley	1935–1939
14.	Roscoe R. Robinson	1939–1948
	George Huckaby	1948
15.	W. Max Chambers	1948–1960
16.	Garland Godfrey	1960–1975
17.	Bill Lillard	1975–1992
18.	George Nigh	1992–1997
19.	W. Roger Webb	1997–2011
20.	Don Betz	2011–present

References

1. "About University of Central Oklahoma". University of Central Oklahoma. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
2. "Presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma". University of Central Oklahoma. Retrieved May 12, 2015.