Roger Martin (born 1943), also known as Rusty, served as the 14th president of Randolph-Macon College, an independent liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, from July 1997 until January 2006.Today, he is president of Academic Collaborations Inc.[1], a higher education consulting firm.
He also serves as executive director of the British Schools and Universities Foundation [2] in New York City.
From 1980 to 1986, he was Associate Dean of the Divinity School at Harvard University and Lecturer on British Church History.
Martin is author of Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again (University of California Press: 2008)[3] which tells the story of his six-month sabbatical at St. John's College, the Great Books School, in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2004 where he enrolled as a 61-year-old freshman.
At St. John's he read Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, and Herodotus, and went out for crew, racing at the Head of the Occoquan with eight teenagers.