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Richard Crocker brings to the position over twenty years of higher education ministry, teaching and administration. Crocker, served as Senior Pastor and Head of Staff at the Central Presbyterian Church in Montclair, N.J. He has served as Dean of Student Life and Associate Professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.Prior to that, he was the College Chaplain and a Lecturer in Religion at Bates College in Maine.
Crocker, as College Chaplain, will lead the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life within the Tucker Foundation. He will also direct the United Campus Ministry (UCM), which currently has twenty-seven Campus Minister and Advisor members, as well as work with students, faculty, administrators and the UCM to nurture religious communities on campus and to develop opportunities for multi-faith dialogue, programs and initiatives.
In his role as Associate Dean of the Tucker Foundation, Crocker will support that organization's mission to further the moral and spiritual work of the College by promoting social justice and civic responsibility while considering and discussing issues of activism and conscience.
Crocker earned his undergraduate and master's degrees at Brown University. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and went on to receive both his M.Div. (in Pastoral Theology and Counseling) and his Ph.D. (in Psychology and Religion) at Vanderbilt University.
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