McCormick submitted his formal resignation to the university Board of Governors, which took effect June 30, 2012. McCormick's successor effective September 1, 2012, Robert L. Barchi, was announced and appointed on April 11, 2012. McCormick has returned to teaching history in Rutgers' Graduate School of Education. He wrote a book titled Raised at Rutgers: A President's Story, which was published by the Rutgers University Press in October 2014. Personal life He is married to Joan Barry McCormick, a 1988 Rutgers alumna and professional fundraiser whose undergraduate degree is in journalism, with a master's degree in public administration from Kean University. McCormick has three children, Betsy, Michael, and Katie. Two of them are from his previous marriage to Suzanne Lebsock, a retired professor of history at Rutgers. He had been married to Lebsock since 1984. Published works From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893–1910. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981). Progressivism. with Arthur S. Link. (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1983). Political Parties and the Modern State. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1984). The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986). Public Life in Industrial America, 1877-1917 (American Historical Association, 1997). Raised at Rutgers: A President's Story (Rutgers University Press, 2014). References External links Richard L. McCormick (at the Rutgers University website) Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Richard L. McCormick (at the Rutgers University website) 1947 births Living people Presidents of Rutgers University Rutgers University faculty Presidents of the University of Washington Amherst College alumni People from Piscataway, New Jersey Piscataway High School alumni