[1] Since ending his tenure at New Mexico in 1986, Farer served as dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver from 1996 to 2010.
Farer earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
He has served as President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS, President of the University of New Mexico, Senior Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment and the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson Institute, and a consultant to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
In January 2020 Cambridge University Press will publish his latest work "Migration and Integration: The Case for Liberalism with Borders."
[2] Due to controversy surrounding his rapport with the University of New Mexico's Board of Regents, Farer served only one year as president before stepping down.