- from a Beloit College News Release -

BELOIT COLLEGE SELECTS DEAN OF CARLETON AS 11TH PRESIDENT

Beloit, Wis.― An economist with 27 years of teaching and leadership experience in liberal arts education will become the leader of Beloit College starting this summer.
H. Scott Bierman, academic dean of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., has been named the 11th president of the 163 year old liberal arts college in Beloit, Wis. The announcement was made by James Sanger, chair of the College’s board of trustees, at a gathering of the college community on the campus at noon today.
Bierman was selected from among an international pool of candidates following a six-month search process. In recent weeks, three final candidates were brought to the campus to meet with the College community. Final recommendation by the presidential search committee went to the trustees at their regular meeting on campus last week.
The Beloit College president-elect has been dean of Carleton College, one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the nation, since 2005. He joined the faculty and was named chair of the economics department in 1991. From 1997 to 2000 he was faculty president, serving as liaison between faculty and the dean and president on curricular and personnel issues. He also founded and chaired the Carleton Faculty Council.
Bierman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and mathematics from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia. His fields of interest include economics of the public sector, industrial organization, game theory and experimental economics. He is the co-author of a book on game theory and has designed teaching materials accompanying various textbooks in economics.
In addition to his work at the Minnesota liberal arts college, he has also been active in the world of higher education as a member of external review committees and other advisory groups for colleges here and abroad. He is a member of the Bates College board of trustees and serves on the board of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest where he is chair of the board of deans.

Bierman will succeed John E. Burris who was president of the College from 2000 until this past year when he accepted the post of president of the Burroughs Welcome Fund in Raleigh, N.C. Dick Niemiec, a former Beloit College trustee and retired executive, has served as interim president of Beloit College for the past year.
Bierman and his wife Melody have two grown children, Lauren and Emily, and will officially assume the role of first family of the College on July 1.

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