Baird Tipson

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Baird Tipson

| birth_name= L. Baird Tipson

| alma_mater = Princeton University (AB)
Yale University (PhD)

| office = 25th President of Washington College

| termstart = 2004

| termend = 2010

| predecessor = John S. Toll

| successor = Mitchell Reiss

| office2 = President of Wittenberg University

| termstart2 = 1995

| termend2 = 2004

| predecessor2 = William A. Kinnison

| successor2 = Mark H. Erickson

}}

L. Baird Tipson is an American academic and college administrator.

Education

Tipson graduated from The Hill School in 1961. He earned an A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University in 1972.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wittenberg.edu/administration/universitycommunications/magazine/summer2004/adefiningpresidency|title=A Defining Presidency {{!}} Wittenberg University|last=Gerboth|first=Karen|date=Summer 2004|website=Wittenberg Magazine|access-date=2019-05-22}}

Career

After an initial career as a professor of religion at the University of Virginia and Central Michigan University, Tipson entered academic administration. He served as provost at Gettysburg College from 1987 to 1995. He served as president of Wittenberg University from 1995 to 2004 and Washington College from 2004 to 2010. He retired to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 2010 and resumed teaching and scholarly research as an adjunct professor at Gettysburg College.{{Cite web|url=http://www.washcoll.edu/live/profiles/8654-baird-tipson|title=Baird Tipson: 26th President of Washington College|website=Washington College|language=en|access-date=2019-05-22}}

Tipson's extensive study of early Protestantism in Connecticut, Hartford Puritanism - Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.{{Cite book|title=Hartford Puritanism : Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and their terrifying God|last=Tipson, Baird.|publisher=Oxford U. Press|year=2015|isbn=9780190212520|location=Oxford [England]|oclc=895029843}} His second book, Inward Baptism : The Theological Origins of Evangelism, was published in 2020 by the same press.{{Cite book|title=Inward Baptism : The Theological Origins of Evangelism|last=Tipson, Baird.|publisher=Oxford U. Press|year=2020|isbn=9780197511503|location=New York }}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110825021359/http://president.washcoll.edu/bairdtipson/ Washington College]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120322140913/http://www.northcoast.org/Bios/tipsonbio.html North Coast Athletic Conference Bios]

Category:Living people

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Presidents of Washington College

Category:Princeton University alumni

Category:Yale University alumni

Category:Gettysburg College faculty

Category:The Hill School alumni