Robert A. Corrigan has served as the 12th president of San Francisco State University since September 1988. He previously served nine years as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. At both universities, he has made civic engagement and the application of university expertise to community issues a campus hallmark.

Among his current national activities, Dr. Corrigan is a member of the National Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch Task Force and the National Advisory Council for Campus Compact. He is immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and past chair of the American Council on Education (ACE) Commission for Lifelong Learning and California Campus Compact. He has also served on the Board of Directors for Jumpstart, a program that helps prepare at-risk pre-school students to succeed in elementary school.

In January 2007, Dr. Corrigan began a second term as chair of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on the Mayor's Biotechnology Advisory Council, and on the Mayor's Children, Youth, and Families Policy Council for San Francisco. He was a past member of the San Francisco Economic Development Corporation, the California Historical Society Board of Directors and the Private Industry Council of San Francisco. In 1994-95 he served on the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Budget Task Force and he is a past co-chair of the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative/Annenberg Challenge.

Dr. Corrigan has been a provost at the University of Maryland and dean at the University of Missouri, in addition to holding faculty positions at the University of Iowa, Bryn Mawr, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He received his A.B. from Brown University and both his master's and doctoral degrees in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.

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