2000-2001
Robert N. Funk served as the interim and the ninth president of Hood College from 2000 to 2001. With the naming of a new president, Dr. Funk accepted a position as interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Hood for the academic year 2001-2002, and in 2002 was named provost and dean of the faculty at Hood.
Prior to accepting the position of interim president at Hood, Dr. Funk served as interim president at three other institutions: Villa Julie College, Sierra Nevada College and St. Edward’s University. Dr. Funk served as the president at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wash.; academic vice president and dean at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo.; and held both teaching and administrative positions at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. A graduate of the University of Oregon, he earned a doctor of philosophy in higher education administration in 1967 from Stanford University.
Prior to entering the field of higher education, Dr. Funk served in the counterintelligence corps and the judge advocates general corps of the U.S. Army, and worked as an attorney in private practice.
