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Dr. R. Stanton Hales, senior consultant, joined Academic Search after serving as president of The College of Wooster for 12 years. Prior to the presidency he served the College for five years as Vice President for Academic Affairs. From 1967 to 1990, Dr. Hales also served in faculty and numerous senior administrative positions at Pomona College, where received the Rudolph J. Wig Distinguished Professorship Award.

In his consulting work, Dr. Hales has focused on searches at independent liberal arts colleges and universities; these searches have been for president, provost, vice president for academic affairs, and dean of the college. His searches include Occidental College, University of Redlands, California Lutheran University, Hiram College, Drew University, and Hollins University.

Dr. Hales’s professional involvements include the Annapolis Group Executive Committee, the Association of American Colleges and Universities Board of Directors, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio Executive Committee, the Great Lakes Colleges Association Executive Committee, and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities Executive Committee. In 2003-04, he served on the Governor’s Commission (OH) for Higher Education and the Economy.

He has served on the Board of Trustees for Foothill Country Day School and Polytechnic School and on the Board of Directors of the United States Badminton Association.

Dr. Hales graduated summa cum laude from Pomona College with a B.A. in Mathematics and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University and holds the honorary degree Doctor of Science from Pomona College. He currently serves on the Alumni Council of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Claremont University Consortium.

Among his other accomplishments, Dr. Hales was also the United States Men’s Singles Badminton in 1970 and 1971 and the Grand Master Men’s Singles Champion (60+) in 2002 and 2003. In 1999, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the International Badminton Federation.