Andrew Rich
Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean
Andrew Rich became Dean of the Colin Powell School in February 2019. The Colin Powell School is home to the social science departments at CCNY as well as the core leadership development and public service programs of City College. With 4,000 students, it is CCNY’s largest student division with a mission to transform one of the nation’s most diverse student bodies into tomorrow’s global leaders.
From 2011-2019, Rich was Executive Secretary & CEO of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, a federal agency that supports young people committed to careers as public service leaders across the United States. Before that, from 2009-2011, Rich was President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank and leadership development organization based in New York City.
Education
Ph.D. Yale University, 1999
B.A. University of Richmond, 1992
Courses Taught
- United States Politics and Government
- The Congress
- The Presidency
- Political Parties and Interest Groups
- Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise
(Cambridge University Press, 2004). - “The Politics of Expertise in Congress and the News Media,”
Social Science Quarterly, September 2001, 82(3): 583-601. - “Ideas versus Expertise: Think Tanks and the Organization of Information in Policymaking,”
Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research, ed. by Daniel Beland and Robert H. Cox (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). - “Think Tanks and Ideology in American Politics,”
Looking for a Progressive America, ed. by Frans Becker, Menno Hurenkamp, and Michael Kazin
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) [also printed in Dutch, Amsterdam: Wiardi Beckman Stichting, 2007]. - “Reaching Competition Despite Reform: When Technology Trumps (De)Regulation
and the New “Old” Politics in Telecommunications Reform,”
Creating Competitive Markets, ed. By Marc K. Landy, Martin A. Levin, and Martin Shapiro
(Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007). - “The War of Ideas: Why Mainstream and Liberal Foundations and the Think Tanks They Support Are Losing in American Politics,”
Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2005, 2(4).
