Homer Daniels Babbidge Jr. (May 18, 1925 – March 27, 1984) was an American historian who served as president of the University of Connecticut (1962–1972) and the Hartford Graduate Center (1976–1984).

Babbidge received the department’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1961 before he moved to become vice president of the American Council on Education (1961–1962).

[3] Babbidge and his wife, Marcia Adkisson, invented the political board game Convention, which John F. Kennedy played during his 1960 presidential campaign.

[4] The library grew from 270,000 volumes to 1.15 million, becoming one of only fifty-nine of the nation’s 2,200 four-year colleges and universities that could claim such resources.

[3] Babbidge established new dental and medical schools, and began construction on an $85 million complex that became the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington.

[3] The latter half of Babbidge's tenure saw campus roiled by student protests against the Vietnam War, racism, and sexism.

However, in 1970, Connecticut elected a fiscally conservative governor, Thomas Meskill, whose attitude toward UConn "bordered on antagonism," according to historian Bruce M.

[1] Upon his resignation from UConn's presidency in 1972, Babbidge became master of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University, where he remained for four years.

In 1977, the series won a gold medal at the New York Film Festival and an award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

[4] In addition to writing and teaching a seminar on higher education administration while at UConn, Babbidge taught a non-credit weekend course on the history and making of stone walls, using a farm he owned in the neighboring town of Coventry to give his students hands-on experience as well as examples of several historical varieties of New England wall building.