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Monday Mar 01, 2021
Dr. Clifford Coppersmith, Chesapeake College
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Clifford P. Coppersmith, Ph.D., is in his third year as the sixth president of Chesapeake College. He brought with his appointment almost 30 years of experience as a faculty member and leader in higher education, with a particular focus on applied technology education. In his work at Chesapeake he has focused on continuing the development of Chesapeake College as a rural comprehensive community college providing both liberal arts transfer and professional and career focused programming for the residents of the five counties of the Eastern Mid-Shore region of Maryland.
Born in the West Indies, he grew up on his Grandfather’s farm in Western New York and began his own college education at Jamestown Community College’s Cattaraugus County Campus. He later completed advanced degrees at St. Bonaventure University and Oklahoma State University. He attended school and paid for college, including graduate school, through military service in the National Guard and Army Reserve as an enlisted man and later commissioned officer in military intelligence and civil affairs. He also served as an intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. prior to pursuing his graduate education.
Cliff began his professional higher education career as faculty, teaching history and anthropology at the College of Eastern Utah where he was tenured before transitioning to administrative leadership as a dean and assistant dean at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, a special mission affiliate of the Pennsylvania State University. He last position before relocating to the Eastern Shore was Dean and CEO at City College at Montana State University in Billings, Montana.
Cliff and his wife Kathleen live in Queen Anne’s County and have three children and three grandchildren. They enjoy working and living in and exploring the Eastern Shore.
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