President Jeffrey A. Doggett, Ed.D.
Jeffrey A. Doggett is 91制片厂鈥檚 21st president. He began his tenure in July 2024.
With an eye on positioning the College for another 150 years of success, his priorities include the re-envisioning of Wagner鈥檚 academic program and financial structures and an intense focus on student success.
In the first year of his presidency,聽he was named one of the 2025 Trailblazers in Higher Education and one of the 2024 Staten Island Power 100 by City & State New York.
Dr. Doggett joined Wagner from Merrimack College in Massachusetts, where he served most recently as executive vice president, chief financial officer and chancellor of learning and student success. During his 14 years at Merrimack, the college鈥檚 undergraduate population more than doubled to nearly 4,000 students while high school GPA rose, and graduate programs grew even more steadily. Prior to Merrimack he served as vice president for government and community relations at Northeastern University.
A聽member of the Staten Island Economic Development Council,聽Dr. Doggett has made work in the community a central focus of his career. From serving on political campaigns at the local, state and national level, to developing large-scale economic development ideas, to his doctoral dissertation on redefining anchor institutions to include those schools that are small and non-urban, his approach to the community as an interdependent ecosystem is central to how he thinks and works.
In addition to leading on campus, Dr. Doggett has actively engaged in regional and national conversations about the future of higher education, including federal student loan programs, the role institutions can play in economic development, innovation in higher education, and the importance of protections for student-athletes.
Dr. Doggett earned his doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and his B.S., M.P.A., and M.B.A. from Northeastern University.
A native of Salem, Massachusetts, Dr. Doggett split his undergraduate years at Northeastern between rowing crew, participating in the cooperative education program, working on a variety of political campaigns and interning in the White House.
He and his wife, Kristen, have two children, Lincoln and Margot.
To contact the Office of the President, please email聽president.office@wagner.edu.