President

Emily F. Cutrer

Interim President

In her nearly 40-year career in higher education, Dr. Emily F. Cutrer has served a wide range of public institutions, including provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University San Marcos from 2006-2013. Cutrer left CSU San Marcos to become president of A&M Texarkana, a role she held for more than 10 years before retiring in 2023. Under her leadership as president of A&M Texarkana, the university saw expansion of academic programming to meet community needs, development of student success programming, and steady increases in enrollment, persistence, and graduation rates.

Prior to her roles at A&M Texarkana and CSU San Marcos, Cutrer served as dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University West, where she established the college’s first community advisory board and alumni board and established a summer bridge program for community college transfer students, as well as the development of first-year programming. Cutrer’s higher education career began at the University of Texas at Austin, where she served as a faculty member in the Department of American Studies from 1986 to 1990.

Cutrer earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies, and a master’s and Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Texas at Austin.