Dr Iain McGilchrist at Ralston
Ralston College Announces Dr Iain McGilchrist as Chancellor. Assuming the Role After Dr Jordan B. Peterson
In September 2025, Dr McGilchrist was appointed as the new Chancellor of Ralston College, a role previously a role previously held by Dr Jordan Peterson. Based in Savannah, Georgia, Ralston College is dedicated to upholding the true values of learning in the Humanities. On the acceptance of his new role, Dr McGilchrist writes:
I am truly honoured by the invitation to take on the role of Chancellor at Ralston College, that new bright star in the firmament of academe. Universities are a cornerstone of our civilization, and I believe that their future in the West lies in the balance: nothing less than our integrity as a society depends on getting them back on course.The stakes, then, are high; and I know of no better institution than Ralston College to champion, tirelessly and courageously, freedom of thought, true scholarship, a love of excellence and deep engagement with the richness of the humanities.May God bless its every endeavour and help me to do what I can to encourage Ralston on its path to the greatness of which it is assured.
The President of Ralston College, Dr Stephen Blackwood, expressed his gratitude to both Dr Peterson and Dr McGilchrist:
Since the launch of Ralston’s first MA cohort in 2022, the College has benefited enormously from the support, encouragement and inspiration of our Chancellor, Dr Jordan Peterson. Over the last three years Dr Peterson has engaged with Ralstonians in many settings and guises – in lectures, seminars, group conversations and informal dialogues, as well as conferring their degrees ex officio at our Convocation and Graduation Ceremony.We are profoundly grateful for Dr Peterson’s indelible and invaluable role in helping to launch the College, and for serving as its Chancellor these past three years, and we are delighted to have his long-term friendship as a continued support for our future.
It is a great honor now to welcome our new Chancellor, Dr Iain McGilchrist. As admired within academe as he is beloved outside of it, Dr McGilchrist is a humanist of astonishing depth and breadth, a renowned scientist and physician, and a shining symbol of the harmony and wholeness his work so brilliantly illuminates. The Board, faculty, students, and staff of the College are grateful beyond measure now to have him as our Chancellor.Ralston College has hosted Dr McGilchrist several times in recent years, including for his 2024 Sophia Lectures on Wholeness, Imagination, and the Cosmos. As a result, faculty, students, and staff have come to regard him not just as an inspirational intellect but as a colleague and friend