Biography
Marx is an alumnus of the Bronx High School of Science after which he attended Wesleyan University before transferring to Yale University,where,in 1981,he received a B.S. magna cum laude . He received an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1986,followed by M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in politics from Princeton in 1987 and 1990. Marx completed a doctoral dissertation titled "Lessons of struggle:South African internal opposition movements,1960-1990." [3] In 2012,one year after he left the college,he received an honorary degree from Amherst College.
After graduating from Yale,Marx spent a year in South Africa participating in the anti-Apartheid movement. Even after returning to the U.S. for graduate school at Princeton,he returned frequently to participate in the founding of Khanya College,a post-secondary college which prepared black students for university. [4] [5]
According to BusinessWeek,one reason the Amherst Board of Trustees chose Marx as president was his support for socioeconomic diversity on college campuses. One of Marx's goals was to make Amherst more accessible to qualified students from lower income families. Marx supports the 'QuestBridge College Match' program at Amherst,an alternative college admission and financial aid process. [5] [6] Marx was arrested for drunk driving in November 2011 after crashing a library-owned vehicle into a parked car [7] and subsequently pleaded guilty to a criminal misdemeanor for driving while intoxicated. [8]
As a board member of the National Book Foundation,Marx was responsible for awarding W. Paul Coates (the father of Ta-Nehisi Coates) a ‘lifetime achievement’Literarian Award for outstanding service to the literary community. Coates Senior as founder of Black Classic Press has controversially republished anti-Semitic and homophobic screeds from a range of African-American writers. Marx declined to comment on the board’s decision according to The Free Press. [9]
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