Provost
Provost George J. Hagerty
Dr. George Hagerty brings to Hellenic American University extensive experience in key leadership positions in American higher education, government, and business. Immediately prior to assuming his role as the University’s Chief Academic Officer, he served a highly successful fourteen-year tenure as President of Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire, where he is recognized as President-emeritus. Throughout his career, he has championed the cause of international education as a mainstay of higher learning at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Provost Hagerty’s experience in the classroom at both the graduate and undergraduate levels includes teaching appointments at his two alma maters, Harvard University and Stonehill College in Massachusetts (1985-1996). While at Stonehill, he also served as an academic administrator and development officer. As a businessman, he co-founded a successful consulting practice, TCI/Taylor, Hagerty & Associates, Inc., which provided legislative and finance counsel to State governments, Federal agencies, national organizations, and institutions of higher education. As a Federal official, he served in the U.S. Department of Education, focusing on special needs populations, culminating his service as the Chief of Compliance and Enforcement for the Department’s Office of Special Education Programs (1979-1985). Since leaving Federal service, Dr. Hagerty has been sought as an advisor and commissioner by both Democratic and Republican Administrations at the national and state levels.
Believing that a passion for one’s discipline in higher education is at the core of an effective teacher-scholar, Dr. Hagerty has established a considerable portfolio of scholarly writings, policy papers, opinion pieces for the media, and public reports in the areas of education and social policy, as well as public finance. Among his public service and governing board appointments, he has served as Chair of the National Association of Independent College’s & Universities (NAICU), the Presidents’ Council of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the New Hampshire Postsecondary Education Commission (NHPEC), the New Hampshire College & University Council (NHCUC), and the New Hampshire Political Library. His advocacy has fostered numerous international partnerships and initiatives in higher education, for which he was recognized with an honorary doctorate from Luhansk National University in Ukraine and distinguished as a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International.
Dr. Hagerty was awarded a Doctor of Education (1978) and Master’s of Education (1976) from Harvard University. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science: International Affairs (1975) from Stonehill College.
