ROME, Ga. — Ed Schrader, associate dean of the division of science since 1995 at Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., has been named as Shorter College’s 17th president.
Schrader, 49, will officially assume his duties as president of the Baptist-affiliated college in Rome, Ga., in January 2001. He succeeds Larry McSwain, who retired in July after seven years as president of the 1,700-student college, which was founded in 1873.
Schrader, a native of Vicksburg, Miss., has been on Millsaps’ faculty since 1988, serving as geology department chairman 1992-1996.
He was assistant professor in geology at the University of Alabama from 1978-80.
Schrader received his bachelor of science in geology from Millsaps in 1973; a master of science degree with emphasis in environmental geochemistry from the University of Tennessee in 1975; and earned a Ph.D. with an emphasis in low temperature geochemistry from Duke University in 1977.
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