Richard James Stonesifer (June 21, 1922 – January 1999)[1] was the fifth President of Monmouth University.

[4] After the war he earned his Master of Arts from Northwestern University and married Nancy Jane Weaver on June 28, 1947.

[7] On March 1, 1963, he was named as the new Assistant To the Provost and Director Of the College of General Studies and the Summer School for the University of Pennsylvania.

Like most private colleges in the 1970s, Monmouth suffered from declining enrollment,[13] national economic inflation, and debt from a large building program in the 1960s.

[15] After leaving Monmouth he served as a Woodrow Wilson professor of humanities and social science from 1979 to 1982.