Dr. Charles L. Flynn, Jr., is the President of the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York.  He was appointed to the position in July of 2000.

Dr. Flynn joined the College from Assumption College in Worcester, MA, where he was the Provost / Dean of Faculty.  During his tenure at Assumption, he also served as Acting President, with the CFO, from December 1997 through July of 1998.  Previously, Dr. Flynn was the Associate Provost of Adelphi University for two years, and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at Hanover College in Indiana from 1989 – 1994.

An historian, Dr. Flynn has taught on the faculties of several colleges, including Washington and Jefferson College and Denison University. Originally from Connecticut, Dr. Flynn received his B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, both in History, from Duke University.  He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Flynn is the author of White Land, Black Labor: Caste and  Class in the Late Nineteenth Century Georgia (LSU, 1983), and co-editor of an award-winning volume entitled Race, Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Durden (LSU, 1989), as well as numerous articles.
 
An active participant in professional development and community service, Dr. Flynn has served many organizations.  A graduate of  the Institute on Educational Management at Harvard University, he has served as an accreditation consultant for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and the Ohio Board of Regents.  He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Liberty Fund and a team leader at a Lilly Endowment Workshop on the Liberal Arts.  He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Worcester County, the Worcester Consortium for Higher Education, and the Worcester Pipeline Collaborative.  He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Grace Institute in Manhattan and the Bronx Task Force on Historic Preservation.

Dr. Flynn was named a Sagamore of the Wabash by the Governor of Indiana in 1992, and a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky in 1991, both in recognition of his public service.