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 THOMAS
H. LANGEVIN
Chairman / CEO
Thomas H. (Tom) Langevin began his
career in higher education in 1951. Upon his graduation,
with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, he was invited to teach history at Concordia
Teacher's College in Seward, NE. Subsequent to becoming
a professor of history, he became dean of the college
and acting president, leaving in 1963. At that time,
he was awarded a Carnegie grant and became a post-doctoral
Carnegie Fellow in College Administration at the Center
for the Study of Higher Education at the University
of Michigan under the late Dr. Algo Henderson. From
1965-1969, Dr. Langevin was academic vice president
at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. In 1969
he became president of Capital University in Columbus,
OH. He served Capital for ten years. Upon the conclusion
of his presidency, he was awarded the Distinguished
Service Award and named president emeritus.
In 1979, Dr. Langevin became a consultant
with Battelle Memorial Institute's Office of Nuclear
Waste Isolation in Columbus, OH, developing and chairing
a national program review committee. Also in 1979, he
activated Thomas H. Langevin & Associates, Inc.
for higher education consulting purposes. He worked
with the Lutheran Education Conference of North America,
directing a curriculum consultation project. In this
capacity, he coordinated curriculum consultations at
over thirty Lutheran colleges and universities during
the 1980s. Having put together a major long-range planning
process for Lutheran colleges as early as 1964, in recent
years he has done strategic planning at A wide range
of colleges and universities. He has also performed
formal and informal institution-wide assessments of
presidents, boards, and administrators.
Dr. Langevin is or has been in Who's
Who in America, Who's Who in College and University
Administration, Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans,
and others. He is a native of Denver, CO. He was a long
time member of Rotary, starting in 1952. He has served
on and chaired the Board of Visitors of Air University
at Maxwell Air Base, AL. He has served on the Board
of Directors of Nationwide Insurance Corporation. He
was on the founding committee of the Federation of State
Humanities Councils. He was a trustee of Blue Cross
of Central Ohio and chaired its board. He has been active
in the Urban League, serving on the national board.
He has served on numerous boards and commissions throughout
his career, including having served as a member of the
Hillsborough County/Tampa Historic Preservation Board
on appointment by the governor of Florida. He was active
in the Battelle Memorial Institute Foundation, serving
as chair and later directing the publication of a book
on the history of the foundation. He was the first president
of Teikyo Loretto Heights University, Denver, during
its formation and early development in 1989-1990, and
subsequently served as senior advisor/executive assistant
to the president of Chapman College, 1990-1991. In 1992,
with Allen E. Koenig, Senior Associate of Thomas H.
Langevin & Associates, Inc., he co-founded The
Registry for College and University Presidents,
a successful venture now in its twelfth year. The Registry,
which places interim presidents and vice presidents
in colleges and universities has been reported in The
Wall Street Journal, U.S.A. Today,
and other national publications.
He has maintained a variety of interests.
He and Pearl, his wife, have two grown sons and four
grandsons.
 BRYAN
E. CARLSON
President
Bryan E. Carlson currently holds three
major positions in the higher education sector. He is
President of the Registry for College and University
Presidents, the nation's premier interim presidential
service; he is also President and Chief Operating Officer
of , which
provides higher education consulting and outsourcing
solutions for colleges and universities throughout the
United States and abroad; and in addition he is a Senior
Consultant for R.H. Perry & Associates, a Washington-based
higher education search firm.
Dr. Carlson has extensive first-hand
experience in both the practice and theory of higher
education leadership. For 23 years he served as President
of Mount Ida College, and brought that institution through
an extraordinary transformation. During his presidency
Mount Ida grew from a single-sex, two-year school into
the leading two-plus-two baccalaureate coeducational
college in the Northeast. The institution expanded from
five academic divisions to eight separate schools; faculty
increased from 62 to 219; the physical plant capacity
more than tripled; a total funds surplus was achieved
every year; and the endowment was increased by a factor
of 950%.
In 1999, Dr. Carlson became President
of the New England Exchange for Executive Leadership
(NEXEL), a division of the Educational Alliance. At
NEXEL he served as a leadership and strategic management
consultant for both the higher education and corporate
sectors. His NEXEL engagements focused on the development
of multi-sector leadership skills; the creation of strategic
alliances and partnerships; and also dealt with turn-around
projects for both academic and corporate organizations.
Prior to assuming his present duties,
Dr. Carlson served as President of College Bound Selection
Service (CBSS). Dr. Carlson positioned CBSS as the nation's
leader in college and university data-based marketing
utilizing a total solutions enrollment strategy.
Dr. Carlson's honors include election
to the academic fraternities of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta
Kappa, and The Academy. He is a cum laude graduate of
Northeastern University and received an Ed.M. and Ed.
D. from Boston University. In 1996, he was one of five
national college and university presidents to receive
the prestigious Bennett National Service Award. In 1998,
he was the convener of the International Forum of the
Americas (IFA) in Naples, Florida, which brought together
eight former heads of state from North, Central, and
South America to identify and address the most pressing
public policy issues common to the Americas.
Dr. Carlson is also the author of the
"Presidential Leadership" chapter in Merging
Colleges for Natural Growth (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1993 and 1999).
 ALLEN
E. KOENIG
Vice Chairman
Allen E. Koenig is senior consultant
and partner-in-charge of the higher education practice
of R. H. Perry & Associates, Inc. (Executive Search
Consultants, Washington, D.C. and Columbus, Ohio). He
joined the firm in 1993 after co-founding the Registry
for College and University Presidents (Thomas H. Langevin
& Associates, Inc.) during the previous year. The
Registry has received favorable coverage from the Wall
Street Journal, USA Today, and the Chronicle of Higher
Education. Through a collaborative agreement between
Perry and Langevin, Dr. Koenig specializes in public
and independent higher education presidential searches
and interim presidential placements. To date, he has
led 57 presidential searches and nearly as many vice
presidential/dean searches.
Dr. Koenig brings a unique perspective
to his specialty--namely, an intimate knowledge of the
presidency. From 1979-1989 he served as president of
Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and from 1989-1991
as president of Chapman University in Orange, California.
Prior to these assignments he served in administrative,
teaching and research positions at the University of
Southern California,The Ohio State University, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Eastern Michigan University,
Capital University, and Marycrest College. Born in Los
Angeles, California in 1939, he received degrees in
communication/mass communication from the University
of Southern California (B.A. 1961), Stanford University
(M.A., 1962), and Northwestern University (Ph.D., 1964).
Dr. Koenig's honors include election
to the academic fraternities of Alpha Epsilon Rho and
Alpha Kappa Delta; Who's Who in America (1980s-2000);
and the Massachusetts Speech Communication Association's
"Outstanding Communicator in the Commonwealth"
(1984). In 1989, he was honored by Governor Michael
Dukakis in his "State of the State Address"
as one of the 10 outstanding citizens of Massachusetts
and received the Presidential Emmy from the Boston/New
England chapter of the National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Koenig has served on numerous boards,
and is past chair or president of the following: National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston/New
England; Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications;
and Professional Arts Consortium, Inc. (Boston, MA).
He is the author, co-author, and/or editor of many communication
and higher education publications.
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