The President of Oberlin College is the chief administrator of both Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
[1] Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university.
The current incumbent is Carmen Twillie Ambar.
[2] As part of Oberlin's inherent mission of a vastly interdisciplinary education, presidents have been chosen from a wide range of fields as diverse as musical performance (Starr), theology (Finney) physics (Fuller), law (Krislov), athletics (Stevenson) and pure mathematics (King).
Thus, each president is a qualified academic professor who has the opportunity to teach classes.