Michael Kenneth Hooker (August 24, 1945 – June 29, 1999) was an American academic who served as the eighth Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Bennington College.
In 1975, he became dean at Johns Hopkins University until 1982 when he moved to Vermont to become the president of Bennington College.
[3] Finally, in 1995 he became the eighth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until his death in 1999.
At UNC Chapel Hill, he made computer literacy a top priority, preparing students for the technological changes of the twenty-first century.
[1] Michael Hooker died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.