James C. Garland
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James Garland was the 20th President of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His tenure in that position started in 1996 and concluded June 30th, 2006. His discipline is physics. He lives with his wife, Carole, and has two children, Elizabeth and James.
His main program is "First in 2009," which aims to make Miami University the best in its class of higher education institutions by the year 2009. This program consists of eight points, the principals of which are raising the intellectual environment of the campus and a commitment to quantitative benchmarking and best practices. He also instituted a new tuition plan that made in-state and out-of-state tuition the same, but gave residents automatic scholarships and scholarships based primarily on need. He led Miami University to be the first public university in Ohio to have domestic-partner benefits, in the summer of 2004, and in that year, he publicly opposed Ohio's Issue 1, an amendment to the state Constitution that barred same-sex domestic unions of any sort, as well as rights and privileges related to them.
On August 19th 2005, Garland announced that he would be retiring in the summer of 2006, after 10 years as president of the institution. Garland now resides in Santa Fe, NM.
