Dr. Brian W. Casey is the current President of DePauw University

DePauw University

DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, is a private, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the Great Lakes Colleges Association...

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He graduated from the Christian Brothers Academy

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 in Lincroft, New Jersey

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. He later earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy

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 and economics

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 from the University of Notre Dame

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, where he was invited to join Phi Beta Kappa.

He earned his J.D.

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 from Stanford University Law School in 1988, and practiced law before continuing on to Harvard University

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 to obtain his PhD

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. He was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Harvard before joining DePauw in 2008.