President Kermit L. Hall, The University's 17th President, Died In Swimming Accident At Hilton Head Island

2006 August 13

President Kermit L. Hall, the University's 17th president, died in swimming accident at Hilton Head Island. Hall took office on February 1, 2005 immediately establishing the Inaugural Student Scholarship Fund by refusing a formal inauguration and pledging the $100,000 that would have been spent on that event to the fund, as well as a $10,000 personal pledge by Kermit and Phyllis Hall. The fund now contains $3 million. Among Hall's initiatives is the new Honors College opening in the fall semester, outreach programs to aid Albany High School, and his opening of new international joint programs with China. As an American constitutional, legal, and judicial scholar, Hall continued to publish and teach while at the University at Albany.

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News release, "Kermit L. Hall, 1944-2006, Brought Passion and Vision to Leadership of UAlbany," August 13, 2006, News Archives UAlbany News Archive, Office of Communications and Marketing

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