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- Jon Calvert Strauss is an American academic administrator who has served as a college president at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Harvey Mudd College, Manhattanville College, acting president of Iona University and most recently as interim president of Paul Smith's College from 2020 to 2021. Before his time at Paul Smith's, he was the acting president of Iona University in spring 2017 and served as the 12th President of Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York from 2011 to 2016. He replaced Molly Easo Smith, who served as the 11th president of the college. Before coming to Manhattanville, Dr. Strauss was the interim dean of engineering at Texas Tech University. He is a former member and current consultant of the National Science Board. Before his time at Texas Tech, he served as President of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in 2008–2009. He accepted this appointment from former president and BGI Co-founder Gifford Pinchot III. Strauss was the 4th president of Harvey Mudd College, serving in that position from March 1997 to June 2006. Prior to Harvey Mudd, he was the chief financial officer of Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Strauss also served as the 13th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1985 to 1994. Strauss has also served as Senior Vice-president of the University of Southern California and Vice President for Budget and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, he helped to develop the Responsibility Center Management (RCM). Strauss received his his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, his masters in physics from the University of Pittsburgh, and his PhD in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and. He is married to Jean Anne Sacconaghi Strauss, a writer, activist and filmmaker. He has four children: daughters Susan MacQuarrie and Stephanie Annan from his first marriage, and two sons, Kristoffer Calvert Strauss and Jonathon Samuel Louis Strauss and six grandchildren. (en)
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- Jon Calvert Strauss is an American academic administrator who has served as a college president at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Harvey Mudd College, Manhattanville College, acting president of Iona University and most recently as interim president of Paul Smith's College from 2020 to 2021. Before his time at Paul Smith's, he was the acting president of Iona University in spring 2017 and served as the 12th President of Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York from 2011 to 2016. He replaced Molly Easo Smith, who served as the 11th president of the college. Before coming to Manhattanville, Dr. Strauss was the interim dean of engineering at Texas Tech University. He is a former member and current consultant of the National Science Board. (en)
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