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Office of the President: Biography

Dr. William H. Crouch Jr.
President, Georgetown College
Georgetown, Kentucky

William H. Crouch, Jr. began his era of leadership-by-example the day he became president of Georgetown College in 1991.

Often described as a visionary in not only corporate and academic worlds, but also in the community of Christian faith, Crouch’s initiatives at the college include: the achievement of numerous record-setting fundraising goals; the founding of many often-emulated programs, such as the President's Ambassadors, the Presidential Mentorship Program and the Apprenticeship Challenge; the facilitation of the construction of a new Fine Arts building, a nationally acclaimed Learning Resource Center, and a high profile Athletic and Conference Center Complex, the latter to which he immediately recruited the NFL Cincinnati Bengals football team's annual summer camp, and a model faculty growth and development program.

Concurrently, Dr. Crouch has been instrumental in increasing Georgetown's enrollment and vastly expanding the geographical base from which the student body comes, as well as leading the college to a Carnegie Foundation Baccalaureate College-Liberal Arts ranking. Working with former Governor Martha Layne Collins, Dr. Crouch has created a unique Center for Commerce, Language and Culture for the campus. All of which are part of his strategy to lead Georgetown College to achieve Phi Beta Kappa standards.

Dr. Crouch has represented Georgetown College on a variety of community boards, including the Executive Committee of the United Way of the Bluegrass, the Lexington Area Sports Authority and Bluegrass Tomorrow. He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Council of Independent Colleges, was Chair of the Board of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, is a member of the National Board of Trustees for The First Tee of the PGA Tour where he was a recipient of the national Founders award, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Flight Academy. Dr. Crouch serves on the Review Board of the Catholic Diocese of Lexington.

Recently, Dr. Crouch led a successful and peaceful effort to change Georgetown College’s affiliation with the Kentucky Baptist Convention to allow the college to pursue its vision to teach students to think, lead and serve with balance and respect as modeled by Christian character.

The son of a Baptist minister who was also a well respected educator, Dr. Crouch is a Louisville, KY, native. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and his master’s and doctorate degrees from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1998, he was selected a Distinguished Fellow at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. In 2003, he was elected a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Prior to coming to Georgetown College he served as vice-president of development at Carson-Newman College.

Crouch and his wife, Jan, have five adult children.