NASHVILLE — Trustees of Belmont University have tapped a new president: Robert C. Fisher, vice president for academic affairs at Arkansas State University since 1996.
Fisher, 51, who will assume office April 1 at the Baptist-related university in Nashville, also serves as a personal consultant on organizational and leadership issues to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater and the senior leadership team.
Fisher was unanimously selected by trustees Feb. 25 to succeed Belmont’s third president, William E. Troutt, who left the Baptist university after 17 years in June 1999 to assume the presidency of Rhodes College in Memphis.
Prior to his service at Arkansas State in Jonesboro, Fisher served 10 years as dean of Henderson State University’s school of business in Arkadelphia, Ark.
The Arkansas native earned his bachelor of science in management and economics from Henderson State in 1970, an M.B.A. from the University of Memphis in 1971 and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Arkansas in 1975. In 1992, he served in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as a Fulbright Scholar, conducting research and consulting with the National Institute of Public Administration.
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