Clarkson University

Anthony G. Collins

President, Clarkson University
As of now serving as Clarkson's sixteenth president, Anthony Collins is a territorial and national supporter for advanced education - mechanical organizations that couple research revelation and designing advancement with big business for commercialization and financial improvement with an emphasis on progressing feasible vitality arrangements and natural innovation development.

In May 2014, President Barack Obama named Dr. Collins to serve on the Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo delegated Dr. Collins in July 2011 to serve as co-seat for the North Country Regional Economic Development Council. Dr. Collins served on a commission set up by Governor Cuomo in November 2012 to explore and contemplate service organizations' tempest arrangement and administration; and to prescribe changes to redesign control of the whole framework to better manage crises. He is as of now is an individual from the board Governor Cuomo has tasked to educate him and the Port Authority concerning New York and New Jersey on the overhauls of New York's air terminals and the supporting foundation to draw in extra business action. He is the additionally the president of the Seaway Private Equity Corporation that puts resources into new innovation organizations situated in St. Lawrence County, New York.

In support of the advanced education segment, President Collins is the past seat of the National Association of Independent Technological Universities and a seat emeritus of New York's Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities. Also, he serves on the sheets of the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity and the Business Council of New York State.

Dr. Collins was among the essential modelers of the Vision of a Clarkson Education that has guided development of the educational programs subsequent to 1995. As president, he now leads Clarkson's Evolution to Excellence, an exhaustive key arrangement hoisting the University's scholarly notoriety, fortifying its budgetary assets, and expanding the lifetime engagement of graduated class and more prominent Clarkson people group.

Growing up outside Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Collins earned an undergrad structural building degree from Monash University, and afterward expert's and doctoral degrees from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Before his doctoral studies, he worked for both Australian Consolidated Industries and Utah Development Company. In the wake of getting his Ph.D. in 1982, Dr. Collins propelled his vocation at Clarkson, in Potsdam, N.Y., as an associate teacher of common and natural designing. Along these lines ascending to the rank of educator, he additionally accepted expanding levels of managerial obligation, including division seat, senior member, VP for scholarly undertakings, and executive. He was chosen the sixteenth president of Clarkson University in 2003. He has gotten honors for extraordinary educating, look into and prompting, addressed all around and is the creator of more than 90 proficient distributions.

Notwithstanding associating with Clarkson graduated class over the globe, Dr. Collins; his significant other, Karen; are dynamic in the Potsdam people group and have given volunteer support of various associations and youth programs.