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Dr. Joseph M. Cronin Sr.

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Dr. Joseph M. Cronin, Sr. Joseph Marr Cronin is President of EDVISORS, Inc., an educational advisory service that assists colleges and universities, schools, states, corporations and foundations with plans, strategies and program reviews. Dr. Cronin earned his AB and MAT degrees from Harvard in 1956 and ‘57 and his Ed.D. from Stanford in l965. He has served as the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, Illinois State Superintendent of Education, President of the Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation, and President of Bentley College. He was Associate Professor of Educational Administration and Associate Dean at Harvard University. He holds the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Lesley University where he served as trustee, chair of Academic Affairs, and in 2003-04 as interim Dean of the School of Education.

Dr. Cronin currently teaches the History of Higher Education in the graduate program at Boston University. He is a reviewer for The New England Board of Higher Education journal Connections that published his article on collegiate planning for demographic changes.

During the 1980’s he served on the evaluation team reviewing World Bank efforts to upgrade the availability of educational technology at Cairo University. While President of Bentley College his faculty worked with Estonian professors of economics and finance to replace an old Soviet curriculum with free market concepts. He took part in Governor’s trade missions to Argentina, Brazil and Japan. Bentley College Trustees in 1997 named the Joseph M. Cronin International Education Center in recognition of his efforts to double international student enrollments. He has advised senior education officials in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Dr. Cronin chaired the board of the Friends of the John Hay National Wildlife Refuge (NH) 2000-2002, was a trustee of the Waltham (Deaconess) Hospital, is a director of the Stoneham Cooperative Bank, trustee of the National Arts and Learning Collaborative, and overseer (past chair) of the Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools. His publications include The Control of Urban Schools, Student Loans: Risks and Realities, and articles on educational finance and distance learning.