ALUMNI “WALL OF HONOR” The West Liberty University Alumni Board of Directors instituted a project in 1990 to demonstrate to current students, visitors, and friends that the college has some very successful graduates. This project, known as the “Alumni Wall of Honor,” is a dramatic way to honor some of the college’s most distinguished alumni and display pride in the accomplishments of its graduates. The concept was suggested by then Associate Professor of Physics Robert W. Schramm, who is a 1958 graduate of the college and a 2002 Alumni Wall of Honor inductee. The Alumni Wall of Honor is housed in the south end of the Union known as the Alumni Lounge.
Todd Bullard
Inducted 2021Bullard earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at West Liberty in 1953, prior to serving in the U.S. Army. While at West Liberty, he founded the Chi Nu fraternity and served as student body president.
He then went on to earn a master’s at West Virginia University and a doctoral degree at University of Pittsburgh, all in political science.
He built a career in higher education, serving as the first director of the Parkersburg branch of West Virginia University, then as president of WVU Potomac State College, Keyser, W.Va. He served as the first provost of Rochester Institute of Technology, N.Y. from 1970 – 1980.
He served as Bethany College President from 1980 – 88 and after that role, he was scholar-in-residence at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., from 1988 – 1991.
Bullard served as president of West Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges and president of the West Virginia Association of College and University Presidents.
He was commissioner-at-large of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, chairman of the Council of Chief Academic Officers (Rochester Area Colleges) and a member and chair of evaluation teams of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.