Presidents Through the Years
College of Charleston presidents from 1790 to the present.
Robert Smith
1790-1797
Thomas Bee Jr.
1798-1805
George Buist
1806-1808
Elijah Dunham Rattoone
1810
Nathaniel Bowen, Class of 1794
1823-1824
1827-1828
Jasper Adams
1825-1826
1828-1836
William Theophilus Brantly
1838-1844
William Peronneau Finley
1845-1857
Nathaniel Russell Middleton, Class of 1828
1857-1880
Henry Elliott Shepherd
1882-1897
Harrison Randolph
1897-1945
George Daniel Grice
1945-1966
Walter Raleigh Coppedge
1966-1968
Theodore Sanders Stern
1968-1978
Edward McDaniel Collins Jr.
1978-1985
Harry McKinley Lightsey Jr.
1985-1992
Alexander Mullings Sanders Jr.
1992-2001
Leo Ignatius Higdon Jr.
2001-2006
P. George Benson
2007-2014
Glenn F. McConnell
2014-2018
Andrew T. Hsu
2019 – present