Thomas Cronin

Education

Cronin received his Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Stanford University.

Career

He was president of Whitman College from 1993 to 2005. He is the McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership at Colorado College. Cronin"s field of study is the "expanding power of the American presidency in the 20th century".

From 1969 to 1972, Cronin was a research associate at the Brookings Institution.

Cronin held an associate professorship at the University of North Carolina from 1967 to 1970. From 1979 to 1993, he held an endowed chair at Colorado College.

He took a visiting professorship at Princeton University in 1985 and 1986. In 2005, Cronin returned to Colorado College to teach and to write.

(According to one of his anecdotes, Colorado College called Doctor Cronin for guidance on who to hire as his replacement.

Instead of providing them with recommendations, he informed the college that he would like to return as the "McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership" at Colorado College). Cronin assisted in raising funds for the acquisition of the Baca campus by Colorado College.

Works

• book

  • Colorado Politics and Government: Governing the Centennial State (Politics and Governments of the American States)

    ( Colorado Politics and Government provides a political h...)

  • Government By The People, National, State, and Local (21st Edition)

    (The most authoritative text for American Government, Gove...)

  • The Paradoxes of the American Presidency

    (The historic election of Barack Obama has ushered in a ne...)

  • The Paradoxes of the American Presidency

    (In The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, two prize-wi...)

  • Government by the People, Basic Version, 20th Edition

    (For the Introduction to American Government or Introducti...)

  • Colorado Politics and Policy: Governing a Purple State (Politics and Governments of the American States)

    ( Survey after survey reveals that many Coloradans believ...)

  • The Presidential Advisory System

    (Part I: Presidential Advisory System: An Inside Network. ...)

  • Colorado Politics and Policy: Governing a Purple State (Politics and Governments of the American States) by Thomas E. Cronin (2012-10-15)
  • The State of the Presidency
  • The Paradoxes of the American Presidency by Thomas E. Cronin (2009-09-02)
  • Government by the People, Review Guide and Lecture Companion: National, State, and Local Version

Membership

He was a member of the faculty and in 1991, was the acting president of the college.