Talk:List of presidents of Georgetown University

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Robert Groves

Is there a reason why Robert Groves (the interim president) is not on the list, but it contains three acting presidents? Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:59, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The question of interim/acting presidents is a bit confusing. I think the approach that makes the most sense is to follow how the university itself organizes its list of presidents. For some historical ones, they count them on the list of presidents. For the more recent ones, they do not. I suspect this has something to do with how people became "ad interim" presidents/vice rectors when the position used to be combined with the superior of the Jesuit community. So, a person could technically be the president of the university but effectively an "acting" head because he was the vice rector (AKA acting rector). That is, the "acting" part really applied to the rector position, rather than the president position. That would be different from recent acting presidents who were not legally the actual president, but were acting. So, if in the future, Georgetown includes Groves in its list of presidents, even with the acting designation, then we can include him. Otherwise, I think it makes historical sense to omit. Ergo Sum 14:43, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]