Alan F. Harre (1940–2020) was the seventeenth president of Valparaiso University, a post he held for 20 years from 1988 to 2008.
[1] He was succeeded by Elizabethtown College alumnus, Mark A. Heckler.
He received his bachelor's of arts degree in 1962 from Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
He received his master of divinity degree in 1966 from Concordia Seminary in Clayton, Missouri.
In 1967, he received a master's of arts degree from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia.