Dr. Alan Guskin

Dr. Alan Guskin, PhD holds the title of University Professor in Antioch PhD in Leadership and Change Program. Dr. Guskin, currently President Emeritus, served as President and then Chancellor of Antioch University from 1985-1997. His distinguished career in higher education includes leadership positions as Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside (1975-1985), Acting President, Clark University in Worcester, Mass. (1973-1974), and Provost, Clark University (1971-1973). He has held faculty positions at the University of Michigan as well as Clark, University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Antioch. Dr. Guskin has remained an active teacher throughout his administrative career and has written frequently on the role of leadership, power, conflict and change in educational organizations, especially universities.

After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1958, Dr. Guskin attended the University of Michigan from 1958-1961 and from 1966-1968, receiving a Ph.D. in social psychology. He interrupted his graduate education to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the first group to go to Thailand and then as a senior administrator in the creation of the domestic peace corps, VISTA. While a graduate student, Dr. Guskin organized a student group on the Ann Arbor campus that is widely credited with inspiring John F. Kennedy to establish the Peace Corps.

In a career that spans 40+ years, there are many areas of interest and even expertise, but these days Al Guskin is probably best known for his leadership roles in higher education and his recent writings and speaking on the transformation of higher education.

Al Guskin lives in the Seattle, Washington area in the small city of Edmonds. He often travels to consult and give speeches and has a home office from which he communicates to the world!