College of the Atlantic
Darron Collins is the President of the College of the Atlantic.
Darron grew up in Parsippany, New Jersey. He graduated from COA in 1992 and won a Thomas J. Watson Fellow that year, which brought him to New Zealand, Chile, and the Amazon Basin. After guiding rafts for a bit, he went on to earn his master’s degree and PhD from Tulane University. His PhD was in cultural anthropology and, for that degree and during that time, he lived and worked in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. When Darron graduated in 2001, he began a career with the World Wildlife Fund for ten years. He was fortunate to be offered the job as COA president in 2011. Darron lives in Bar Harbor.
College of the Atlantic
College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through a distinctive educational philosophy — human ecology. A human ecological perspective integrates knowledge from all academic disciplines and from personal experience to investigate, and ultimately improve, the relationships between human beings and our social and natural communities.