Bobby Fong Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Bobby Fong (c. 1950 – September 8, 2014) was an American academic and the President of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

On September 8, 2014, Fong died suddenly of natural causes at his home in Collegeville.

In 2012, he was elected Chair of the Board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, a national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.

A 2012 profile in The Philadelphia Inquirer noted that at the time, Fong was one of only 40 Asian Americans serving as college presidents in the U.S.

In 2011 Fong received the President’s Awards from National Association of Student Personnel Administrators for his efforts to advance the quality of student life at Butler and throughout higher education.

In 2010, Butler’s surprising run in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship tournament brought the small school and its president national attention. Butler advanced to the Final Four, beating Michigan State before losing to Duke in the championship game.

In October, 2010, Fong announced that he would leave Butler the following summer to assume the presidency at Ursinus.

On June 1, 2001 Fong became the 20th president of Butler University in Indianapolis.

His academic career began at Berea College. He later served as Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. In 1995 he became Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English at Hamilton College (New York).

Fong grew up in Chinatown in Oakland, California, the son of Chinese immigrants. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1978 he earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, writing his dissertation on the works of Oscar Wilde.