L. Randolph Lowry III, also known as Randy Lowry, is an American academic administrator. He is the President of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Early life
Lowry was born in Oregon and he grew up in Long Beach, California. He graduated with a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in public administration from Pepperdine University. He received a J.D. from Hamline University.
Career
Lowry started his career by working in the president's office both at Hamline University and Willamette University. From 1986 onwards, he taught Law at Pepperdine University, where he established the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has also taught at Vermont Law School, the City University of Hong Kong, Shantou University in Beijing, China, Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia, Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the University of Modena in Modena, Italy.
In 2005, Lowry became President of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. In September 2017, he apologized after he hosted a dinner at his home for African-American students where the menu was "mac n cheese, collard greens, corn bread" and the centerpieces "contained stalks of cotton," a symbol of slavery in the United States.
At the time he was appointed President, Lowry was a member of the board of trustees of Abilene Christian University and the advisory board for Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, and chairman of the board of Sunset Haven Christian Care Center, a Church of Christ-related nursing home company. He is a member of the Rotary Club and the YMCA in Nashville. He is a member of the Churches of Christ.
Personal life
Lowry has a wife, Rhonda. They have three children, and they reside in Nashville, Tennessee.
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