Mary B. Marcy

Provost and Vice President of the College

B.A. with honors, University of Nebraska; M.Phil, Oxford University; D. Phil.,Oxford University.

Dr. Marcy became Provost and Vice President of Simon's Rock in 2004. She writes and speaks regularly on higher education and early college, and conducts research on women in American politics.

Prior to becoming the Provost, Dr. Marcy was the Senior Administrator for the Project on the Future of Higher Education at Antioch University. As a major policy initiative, the project identified and convened an Advisory Board of distinguished scholars and administrators across the country whose work in higher education was making significant contributions to the field. The project explored issues of cost and quality of American Higher Education, innovative ways to engage technology, utilize campus resources, support faculty, and advance student learning.

Previously, Dr. Marcy served as the first Dean of University Relations and Planning at the Seattle campus of Antioch, where she created the campus' first successful fundraising program and Board of Visitors. As Dean, Dr. Marcy led all development activity including alumni; media, government, corporate, and community relations; publications; planning and marketing.

Before coming to Antioch University, Dr. Marcy was the primary policy researcher and advisor to the President of Western Washington University, where she was Executive Assistant to the President and was responsible for select presidential initiatives in government relations, affirmative action, enrollment management, and service learning.

Prior to her time at Western, Dr. Marcy served as Director of Government Relations at Central Washington University, where she represented the University to local, state, and federal government.

Dr. Marcy has held faculty appointments and is widely published on issues of cost, accountability, diversity and leadership in higher education. Her publications include "Democracy, Leadership and the Role of Liberal Education" and "Rawls, Neustadt and Liberal Education: Reflections on Two Scholars" in the journal Liberal Education; "When Diversity and Dollars Collide" in the journal Innovative Higher Education; "Why Foundations Have Cut Back in Higher Education" and "The Lessons of Early Colleges," in the Chronicle of Higher Education; and "When to Start the Liberal Arts" in the Boston Globe. She writes regularly on issues relating to higher education, liberal education, and political science.

Dr. Marcy serves on the Brookings Institute Higher Education Policy Forum, and was a recent participant in the Aspen Institute's Justice and Society program. She received a Rotary Foundation Scholarship to attend Oxford University, and received the Sue Tidball Award for Creative Humanity from the University of Nebraska. (2004–)