Eddie Summers joined Marist College as a full-time member of the President's Cabinet in August 2004 as Presidential Fellow. Eddie provides executive-level support to President Murray and is responsible for maintaining strong ties to the Marist community, alumni, governmental officials, and local community leaders. He works very closely with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Office of International Education, Office of Institutional Advancement, and Student Affairs. Eddie also works on special projects assigned by the President and represents the College in an official capacity at both on-campus and off-campus meetings and events. Eddie is an adjunct professor of Public Administration and Policy and the Program Director for Marist College's South Africa short-term academic service-learning program abroad.
Eddie graduated from Marist College with a BA in political science and received the Alumni Leadership Award at Baccalaureate. While an undergraduate, Eddie studied abroad in Florence, Italy during his junior year. His internship and professional experience include working as a legal assistant clerk and legal records clerk at law firms in New York City, and as a legal assistant with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Throughout his four years at Marist, Eddie worked in our College Activities Office as Building Manager, supervising student workers and managing activities in the Student Center. He also spent the summer of 2002 serving as a teacher at the Family Partnership in Poughkeepsie, where he worked with 75 at-risk students to improve their reading and writing skills.
Eddie completed his Master's of Public Administration degree from Marist College and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban and Public Policy at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, a division of the New School University. Eddie's research interest is in the areas of information technology and its effect on the public sector, higher education and housing policies, gentrification and the role of race, class, gender and politics, economic and community development, and the development of South America and Africa. Eddie recently co-presented a paper on open source technology and the role of higher education "The Case of Sakai" at the Annual American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Teaching of Public Administration Conference. In November 2008, Eddie moderated a faculty panel discussion titled "The Politics and Policies of President-Elect Obama and the Black Community" at the Northeast Regional Conference of the National Black Graduate Student Association (NBGSA) at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
