Otto Frederick Krausharr (November 19, 1901 – September 23, 1989) was an American professor of philosophy who served as the 6th president of Goucher College.

Kraushaar led the school for 19 years and is credited with its emergence as a nationally recognized women's college.

[1] He was also responsible for overseeing the school's relocation from Baltimore to Towson, which was first initiated in the early 1920s by former Goucher president William W.

[5] While at Goucher, Kraushaar sought to increase racial and religious diversity at the school by lifting quotas on Jewish students that had been maintained under his predecessor and by supporting and encouraging African-American applicants.

[6] Kraushaar served as a consultant to a Maryland commission on higher education and also with a gubernatorial task force on the public school system and race relations in the United States.