Robert A. Corrigan
President, San Francisco State University
Education
A.B., American Civilization, Brown University
M.A., American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Experience
San Francisco State University President and Professor of English and Humanities (1988- )
University of Massachusetts at Boston : Chancellor and Professor of English (1979-88)
University of Maryland-College Park: Provost for Arts and Humanities and Professor of English and American Studies (1974-79)
University of Missouri- Kansas City: Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English (1973-74)
Grinnell College: Visiting Professor of American Studies (Fall 1970)
University of Iowa : Associate Professor of English and American Civilization (1969-73); Assistant Professor (1966-69); Instructor in English (1964-66)
University of Pennsylvania: Instructor in American Civilization (1963-64)
Philadelphia Museum College of Art: Visiting Lecturer (1963-64)
Bryn Mawr College: Lecturer in English Literature (1962-63)
University of Gothenburg (Sweden): Lecturer in American Literature and
Culture (1959-62)
Philadelphia Historical Commission: Researcher (1957-59)
Professional and Civic Activities (Partial list)
Board of Directors, Association of American Colleges and Universities (2001-03); AACU National Leadership Board for Health and Higher Education (1`996-2006)
Board of Directors, JUMPSTART (2000- )
Chairman, National Steering Committee for "America Reads Challenge" (1997) and "America Counts" (1999- )
American Council of Education, Commission on Minorities in Higher Education (1995-97)
AASCU/NASULGC Coordinating Committee for Urban and Metropolitan Universities (1995- )
Leadership Board, Bay Area School Reform Collaborative/Annenberg Challenge (1995- ); Chair (1997-99)
Advisory Council of the California Academy of Sciences (1988- )
Board of Directors, California Historical Society (1989-92)
Board of Directors, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (1989-92; 2001-04)
Executive Committee, Campus Compact (1990-98)
Executive Committee, California Campus Compact (1990- ); Co-Chair (1992-96); Chair (1996- )
Board of Directors, JFK Library Foundation (1983-92); Emeritus (1992- )
Chairman, Board of Directors, Association of Urban Universities (1989-92)
Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa
William Lloyd Garrison Award of the Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association, (1987)
American Specialist Grant, U.S. State Department for Lectures in Africa and Asia (1977)
Rockefeller Foundation Grant for American Film Studies (1972-75)
National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation Grants for Summer Institutes in AfroAmerican History and Culture
Distinguished Urban Scholar, Association of Urban Universities (1992)
Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, Golden Gate University (1995)
Smith Mundt Professor and Fulbright Lecturer (1959-62; 1977)
Named by John Templeton Foundation as one of 50 leaders of American Colleges Encouraging Character Development
Summer Institutes
1976 Co-sponsor (with Mary F. Berry) of the University of Maryland Summer Institute on The Black Experience in America: A Retrospective (directed by Joyce D. Mobley)
1975 Co-sponsor (with Mary F. Berry) of the University of Maryland Summer Institute on Black Leadership in America (directed by Joyce D. Mobley)
1974 Co-director (with Joyce D. Mobley) of the University of Missouri Summer Institute on The Black Woman in American Culture
1973 Co-director (with Darwin T. Turner) of the University of Iowa Summer Institute on The Afro-American on Stage and Film
1972 Co-director (with Charles T. Davis) of the University of Iowa Summer Institute on W.E.B. Du Bois
1971 Co-director (with Charles T. Davis) of the University of Iowa Summer Institute on Richard Wright: His Work, His World and His Influence
1970 Director of NEH Summer Institute at the University of Iowa on The Harlem Renaissance
1969 Director of NEH/Ford Foundation Summer Institute at the University of Iowa on The Culture of Black America: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Publications (partial list)
"Presidential Leadership: Moral Leadership in the New Millennium" (monograph), American Association of State Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C., 2002). Adapted for on-line publication by the New York Times in "Presidential Perspectives," August 20, 2002; reprinted in revised form in Liberal Education, vol.88, no.4, Fall, 2002, pp 6-13
"Civic Engagement and Moral Responsibility," in Angela M. Harwood (ed.), Relationships, Responsibilities, and Rigor: Service Learning in the New Century, University of Washington (Seattle, 2000), pp. 29-32
"HIV/AIDS and Institutional Transformation: The Experience of San Francisco S tate University," (with Sheila A. McClear) in Wm. David Burns (ed.) Learning for Our Common Health: How an Academic Focus on HIV/AIDS Will Improve Education and Health, Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C, 1999), pp. 117-127
"Presidential Leadership in a Time of Crisis," in Bernard Goldstein (ed.), California's Master Plan for Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century, Proceedings of the Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Long Beach and San Francisco, 1996, 101-104 "Diversity, Public Perception, and Institutional Voice," Liberal Education, vol. 81, no. 2, 1995, 20
"Supercities: Environmental Quality and Sustainable Development," Atmosphere Environment, vol. 29, no. 20, 1995, pp. 1-2
"Education in Europe: An Intercultural Task," with Torsten/Husen et al, in Christoph Wulf (ed.) Education in Europe: An Intercultural Task, Waxmann Verlag Gmb H. (Munster/New York, 1995), pp. 523-55
"Response to the Relationship Between Industry and Academe," in Alan F. J. Artibise and Wendelin A. Fraser (eds.), New Directions for Urban Universities: International Perspectives, Selected Presentations and Remarks from the Second International Urban Universities Conference, University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, 1987), pp. 329-336
"Urban Universities: Identifying Resources for Changing Mandates" in Nevin C. Brown (ed.), Public Universities in Cities: Challenges and Opportunities in Canada and the United States, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (Washington, 1985), pp. 30-37
"Campus Child Care: Value to the College Community," Focus on Learning (Spring, 1984), pp. 5-7
"Literature and Politics: The Case of Ezra Pound Reconsidered," Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Culture Studies (Fall 1976), pp. 463482. Reprinted in John A. Hague (ed.), American Character and Culture: Some Twentieth Century Perspectives, Greenwood Press (Westport, 1979). Reprinted in Arabic translation in Alam el Fikr, 9, No. 1 (1978), pp. 247-266
"Afro-American Fiction Since 1970," American Studies (Fall 1973), pp. 85-90
"A Yankee in King Edward's Court: The Critical Response to Ezra Pound's Early Verse," Paideuma (Winter 1972), pp. 229-260
"The First Quarter Century of Ezra Pound Criticism: An Annotated Checklist," Resources for American Literary Study (Fall 1972), pp. 157-207
"Ezra Pound and the Italian Ministry for Popular Culture," Journal of Popular Culture, (Spring 1972) pp. 767-781
"What's My Line?: Bennett Cerf, Ezra Pound and the American Poet," American Quarterly (March 1972), pp. 101-113
"Afro-American Studies at the University of Iowa: A Progress Report," Radical American Studies (October 1970), pp. 3-4
"Afro-American Fiction: A Checklist," Midcontinent American Studies Journal (Fall 1970), pp. 114-135
"An Interdisciplinary Home for Afro-American Studies at Iowa—A Proposal," Bulletin of the Radical American Studies Caucus (February 1970), pp. 10-11
"Introduction" to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Airmont (New York, 1967)
"The Negro in Boston: 1675-1725," Xavier University Studies (December 1967), pp. 135-150
"Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize Controversy," MidcontinentAmerican Studies Journal (Fall 1967), pp. 43-57; reprinted in revised form in Warren French (ed.), The Forties, Everett/Edwards (Deland), pp. 287-295
"The Artist as Censor: J.P. Donleavy and The Ginger Man," Midcontinent American Studies Journal (Spring 1967), pp. 60-72
"Samuel Sewall: Colonial American Diarist," Moderna Sprak (December 1965), pp. 423-441
American Fiction and Verse: An Anthology (with John Hancock, Richard Fisher, and Norman Schwenk) Gleerups (Lund, Sweden, 1962); Second Edition, revised 1970
Personal Data
Born: April 21, 1935
Married: Joyce Mobley, 4 children