The merger creating the University of Maryland System was directed by Governor William Donald Schaefer and was overseen by University of Maryland President John S. Toll, who then became the system's first Chancellor.
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Kirwan's son, William English Kirwan, a 1962 UK graduate, is currently the third Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, and former president of the University of Maryland, College Park and The Ohio State University.
As of 2011, the commission's co-chairs are William English Kirwan, chancellor, University System of Maryland and R. Gerald Turner, president of Southern Methodist University and founding chairman of the NCAA Certification Committee, which itself came about largely through the work of the Knight Commission.
William English Kirwan (b. 1938), Chancellor of the University System of Maryland