Commuter Students - Colin McCann, Associate Director

Contact:

Office - Student Center, Room 1201A
Campus Phone: 845-575-3787
E-mail: colin.mccann@marist.edu

Main Duties:

Associate Director for First Year Experience & Leadership Development/Mentor for commuter students
Advisor, Commuter Student Council

Additional Duties:

• Adjunct instructor for School of Communication & the Arts. (SGA Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year Award, 2003-2004 & 2011-2012)
• Club Advisor, Sikh Student Organization
• Club Advisor, Gaelic Society

About Colin:

Hometown: Red Hook, NY

Education:  BA Communication/Mass Media - SUNY Plattsburgh (1990)
                         MA Educational Psychology - Marist College (2000)

My earliest Marist Memory is...moving into my apartment while the winter wind blew across the Hudson.

When I think of heroes, I think of...the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Peace is a perpetual project. Have courage.

One of my favorite movies is...Blade Runner.

The best things about college...begin as challenges before they become triumphs.

My biggest "mentor" growing up was...my father.

If I could travel anywhere, I'd go to...the Northwest of Ireland and the the Taurus Mountains in Turkiye. Or maybe to see the moons of Jupiter.

When not busy with things at Marist...I enjoy the struggle of creative writing, playing percussion, working the garden with bare hands, and being Daddy to my wee fellas and they are my joy.

My message to the students of Marist is...Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.