Autor: Norman R. Smith

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.