Gordon Arthur Haaland (April 19, 1940 – October 23, 2017) was an American academic.

[1] He was the fifteenth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1990, and of Gettysburg College from 1990 to 2004.

[2][3] He was an alumnus of Wheaton College and the State University of New York at Buffalo, earning a doctorate degree in social psychology at the latter.

[4] in 1985, Haaland oversaw the establishment of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, which dramatically increased research funding to the university.

[5] Gettysburg College built the quarry suites apartment complex in 1999, consisting of four separate apartment style dorms, and named Haaland Hall in his honor.