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Biography

Larry Vote is acting president and provost of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.  He completed graduate studies at the University of Michigan in music performance and was appointed to the faculty of the College in 1981.  Professor Vote previously served as chair of the Music Department, head of the Division of Arts and Letters, Faculty Senate president, acting provost, associate provost for Academic Affairs, and vice president for Communications and New Initiatives. In 2003, he was appointed provost of the College. He continues to maintain an active life as a conductor of choirs, as co-artistic director of the Alba Music Festival, and resident Guest conductor of the River Concert Series.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, designated the Maryland state honors college in 1992, is ranked one of the best liberal arts schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and Kiplinger’s, and The Princeton Review. Founded in 1840 as Maryland’s “monument school” commemorating the state’s first capital, SMCM is the state’s only public honors college.

Some 2,000 students attend the college, which has the highest graduation rate for all Maryland public colleges and universities, and an SAT average for student admissions of 1848. The school’s waterfront campus along the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland is home to the 2009 National Intercollegiate Sailing Association Co-ed champions.