Fred Rogers served as Vice President and Treasurer at Carleton College from August 2004 through June 2020. Over the past 30 years he has served as the financial officer in higher education at Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University before joining Carleton College. After graduating from Carleton College in 1972 with a BA in mathematics, he received an MS with distinction from Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School of Public Policy in 1974 and began his career at Carnegie Mellon in Institutional Research. He has been a leader and innovator among university business officers for 25 years with direct experience in the full suite of campus administrative and business responsibilities. A strong believer in collaborative work and mentoring, Rogers has been a presenter at many professional meetings and organizations and served as the director of the Cornell/EACUBO Administrative Management Institute for 21 years. Fred has served on a number of Boards of Directors including the Cornell Research Foundation, Tompkins County Foundation, United Way of Tompkins County, Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, EACUBO and the Council of Government Relations (COGR and as a trustee of the Lebanese American University. He serves as the chair of the NACUBO Sustainability Advisory Committee and is on the Board of the Private College 529 Plan. Fred is the vice president of the Northfield Economic Development Authority and a member of Rotary International.
Rogers has written or co-authored a series of white papers with the Commonfund Institute on the subject of endowment management, payouts and giving that are available on the Commonfund website and serves on the NACUBO / Commonfund Endowment Survey advisory board. In 1998 Rogers received the Alumni Merit Award from Carnegie Mellon University and in 2013 he was named the NACUBO Distinguished Business Officer of the year.
Rogers is married to his Carleton classmate, Jenny Hartley (’72). They have three grown children and one grandchild and live with their dog and three cats on five acres outside of Northfield. They are known among students as generous hosts for international students who have no home in the U.S.