Robert L. Caslen
United States general
Robert Louis Caslen Jr. (born 30 November 1953) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 59th superintendent of West Point from 2013 until 2018 and as the 29th president of the University of South Carolina from July 2019 until May 2021. Between January and May 2019, Caslen was senior counsel to the president and interim chief financial officer at the University of Central Florida. On 19 July 2019, the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina elected him as the school's 29th president, a position he assumed on 1 August 2019. He resigned as president at South Carolina on 12 May 2021.
Early life and education
Caslen was born in Connecticut, and grew up in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
In 1971, he graduated from North Country Union High School in Newport, Vermont. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1975, where he played center for the Army Black Knights football team. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Long Island University. In 1989, he received a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering from Kansas State University.
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