Joan Straumanis
President, Antioch College, 2002-

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Joan Straumanis is the third graduate of Antioch College to be its president. She earned her bachelors degree in both Government and Mathematics in 1957. She holds a M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Maryland. She has been a faculty member at American, Denison and Lehigh Universities, and a dean for Kenyon and Rollins Colleges  as well as Lehigh. She has most recently been a program officer in the  Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the Office of Postsecondary Education, US Dept. of Education. Joan Straumanis