From Bottom to Top Tier in a Decade: Th e
Wagner College Turnaround Years is a memoir
recounting one of the most remarkable
turnaround stories in American higher
education, as recalled by the president who
led a fourteen-year campaign bringing
this fi nancially troubled, under-enrolled,
bottom-ranked college from disrepair and
impending closure to wide regard as one of
the top small, residential private colleges in
the east.
By the time Norman Smith departed in
2002, the college was ranked top tier, was
full to capacity, and was cited as one of
America’s most beautiful college campuses.
Located on a hilltop overlooking Manhattan
that had once been Vanderbilt and Cunard
estates, Wagner College should never have
gotten into trouble. Th is recounting is
not only an engaging human story of the
many trustees, benefactors, faculty, and staff
who were key to the turnaround, but also
represents a case study template of what
must happen for any college to survive and
ultimately fl ourish in these competitive
times for private higher education.
عن المؤلف
Dr. Norman Smith is the longest serving
president of Wagner College in New York
City and was the fi rst in its 125-year history
to be designated President Emeritus upon
his departure in 2002. His presidential
years at Wagner College represent a most
remarkable turn-around story and his
leadership is widely credited with having
saved the College’s very existence.
After Wagner College, Smith moved to
moved to London, England to become
President of Richmond Th e American
International University in London and
is presently in Egypt where, as Founding
Chancellor, he is overseeing the construction
of a major American international university,
Alamein, west of Alexandria on the
Egyptian Mediterranean.. His 38-year
career in higher education started at Drexel
University, his undergraduate alma mater.
He was also Executive Vice President of
Moore College of Art, Vice President
and Dean of Philadelphia University and
Assistant Dean of the Harvard Graduate
School of Education and of Harvard’s John
F. Kennedy School of Government. He
earned his doctorate at Harvard University.
Smith is married to Dr. Susan Robinson,
former President of New York City’s Snug
Harbour Cultural Center. Th eir daughter,
Caroline, attends Skidmore College in
Saratoga Springs, New York.
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