Dan M. Martin assumed the office as the second president of Cranbrook Educational Community July 1, 1980 and was formally inaugurated on November 11, 1980. Before that date, Dr. Martin served as president of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM), a consortium of 13 private liberal arts colleges, based in Chicago. For eight years, Dr. Martin directed the ACM, which operates academic programs and provides administrative services designed to enrich the curricula and improve the efficiency of its member colleges. Born and raised in Iowa, Dr. Martin is a graduate of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. He earned masters of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in political science at Princeton University. His first teaching experiences were at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, where he was an instructor of political science. From 1966 until 1969, Dr. Martin served as executive assistant at the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, which focused on providing grants for medical education. Dr. Martin then became assistant to the chancellor and assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, until he assumed the presidency of ACM in 1972. During his tenure at ACM, Dr. Martin became a leading authority in the broad field of higher education and was a member of the Illinois Board of Regents, the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education and a variety of other state, regional and national committees and organizations. While President of the Cranbrook Educational Community, Dr. Martin oversaw the final stages of the administrative consolidation begun with the creation of the CEC in 1973. He also supervised Cranbrook’s first major capital improvement drive, nicknamed “The Great Renovation.” Dr. Martin resigned the Presidency of the CEC in June, 1984. Among his many post-Cranbrook activities, he has served as the Area Director of the Program on Global Security and Sustainability of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, has had various directorships at Conservation International, been president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, and as of 2015, is manager of the Phelps Stokes fund.