Wayne Anderson became the 16th President of IWU in 1986 and he served until 1988. This collection holds text and/or audiovisual records of his inauguration ceremony. Additional records of his presidency are available in Record Group 2-11 of the University Archives and Special Collections.
Anderson was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and received a Master’s from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School before receiving a Ph.D. from Georgetown University. He had been on the staff of the Association of American Colleges and Assistant to the President of John Hopkins for nine years. He was then President and Professor of Political Science at Maryville College.