Professor Michael K. Hooker

Michael Kenneth Hooker (August 24, 1945 – June 29, 1999) was an American academic and administrator who served as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and President of Bennington College[1][7]. Born in Richlands, Virginia to a coal miner, he earned degrees in philosophy from UNC and UMass Amherst before holding faculty and leadership roles at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and multiple universities[1][7]. He died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina[1][2].