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Ralph J. Hexter is the current president of Hampshire College, a progressive alternative college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Prior to assuming the post, Hexter was Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities and at University of California, Berkeley. Hampshire is part of the five college consortium, which includes Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Hexter was a 1974 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After studying in England at Oxford's Corpus Christi College, he entered graduate school at Yale University. He received his Masters of Philosophy in 1979 and his Ph.D. in 1982 both from Yale and taught there in Classics and Humanities for ten years.

Hexter assumed the Hampshire College presidency on August 1, 2005. He is one of the few openly gay college presidents in America.

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• Video of the Inauguration of President Ralph J. Hexter
• Interview with Ralph J. Hexter
• Interview with Ralph Hexter from the Advocate Magazine
• Hexter's personal page at Berkeley
• Hexter's Hampshire College bio

Some confusion has resulted due the similarity of Hexter's name with that of Hextor, the God of Lawful Evil, god of War, Discord, Massacres, Conflict, Fitness, and (most appropriately) Tyranny.