Background
Samuel Kern Alexander, Junior. was born in Marrowbone, Kentucky in 1939.
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Samuel Kern Alexander, Junior. was born in Marrowbone, Kentucky in 1939.
Ruth was a native of Paint Lick, Kentucky, and she graduated from Milligan College in 1960. Kern and Ruth Alexander had two children Samuel Kern Alexander III and Fieldon King Alexander, and then the Alexanders moved to Indiana, where Kern completed his Editor.D in Educational Administration from Indiana University in 1965.
Prior to coming to the University of Illinois he served as President of two American state universities (Western Kentucky University and Murray State University), was a tenured distinguished professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Technical and held the Robinson Eminent Scholar Chair at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville. As President of Murray State, Alexander began a residential college system. He is the author or co-author of 25 books on education finance and law and has served as finance expert in state school finance litigation in 22 American states.
Alexander founded the Oxford Round Table, a series of interdisciplinary conferences held at various colleges in the University of Oxford, in 1989.
He has been closely involved with the Round Table ever since, often serving as its president In his autobiography, My Life, President Bill Clinton quoted Alexander and described him as a nationally recognized expert on education policy.
Alexander holds a graduate diploma (with distinction) from the University of Oxford and an Editor.D. from Indiana University.
