William Durden

William Durden, is president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Prior to Dickinson, Dr. Durden was president of the Sylvan Academy of Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Caliber Learning Network, a joint distance-learning venture of Sylvan and MCI Corporation. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

Dr. Durden was for 16 years Executive Director of the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth (formerly the Center for Talented Youth), a division of Johns Hopkins, and a member of the university's Department of German. He was also for 11 years senior education consultant to the U.S. Department of State and chaired its Advisory Committee on Exceptional Children and Youth. In addition, for a number of years he served on the faculty of the St. Paul's School in Baltimore, Maryland.