Anthony W. Marx Biography

Anthony W. Marx was Amherst’s president from 2003-2011. As president, he focused on realizing Amherst’s aim to be both the most selective and the most diverse liberal arts college, ensuring access for the most talented students of any economic background, curricular renewal and connecting the curriculum to research and internship/service experiences to inspire lifelong engagements. In July 2011, he became President of the New York Public Library.

Marx served for 13 years on the faculty at Columbia University, where he was professor and director of undergraduate studies of political science. He also has established and managed programs designed to strengthen secondary school education in the U.S. and abroad. During his last year at Columbia, he served as director of the Gates Foundation-funded Early College High School Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which established model public high schools as partnerships between school systems and universities. He founded the Columbia Urban Educators Program, a public school teacher recruitment and training partnership. In the 1980s, he helped found Khanya College, a South African secondary school that prepared more than 1,000 black students for university.

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