and Urban Development and Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. Veitch also unveiled a new statue for the former student who died in 2009. After a two-year consultative process initiated by Veitch, Occidental approved a five-year strategic plan in 2012 that laid out goals such as curricular innovation and fostering a cosmopolitan campus culture. On the school's 125th anniversary in April 2012, President Veitch announced that Occidental would be the recipient of a $5 million donation to renovate Johnson Hall, one of three original buildings on the campus. During Veitch’s tenure, Occidental implemented new programs in computer science, media arts and culture, music production, and Black studies. In April 2013, Veitch unveiled a 1 megawatt solar array on the Occidental campus, to generate a portion of the campus's energy supply. In September 2017, Veitch announced the creation of the Barack Obama Scholars Program, a four-year scholarship program aimed at exceptional students with an emphasis on first-generation students, veterans, and community college transfers who "want to contribute to the public good." Veitch has publicly supported the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Partnering with the lobbyist group Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, Veitch helped to organize a March 2017 symposium that brought participants from more than 40 Southern California institutions to Occidental to consider how to respond to changes in immigration policy. Personal life Veitch married Sarah Ann Baxter Kersh, the former director of international licensing and distribution for Calvin Klein, in December 1992. See also Occidental College References Living people Presidents of Occidental College 1959 births Stanford University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni