Jonathan Veitch
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Jonathan Veitch has been the president of Occidental College
Occidental College
Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...

 since July 2009. Prior to that, he was an actor, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and dean of The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...

's Eugene Lang College. He has authored several books, including Colussus in Ruins and American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s.

Veitch is the first president of Occidental College to be a native Angeleno.
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