Bayan da ya cika ta shekara guda sadaukar da Jami'ar Louisville, Collins aka mai suna wani abokin tarayya na Harvard Cibiyar Siyasa 'John F. Kennedy School of Government, koyarwa ba-credit azuzuwan a kan jagoranci styles sau daya a mako. A lokaci guda tare da matsayi a Harvard, Collins aka mai suna ga hukumar regents ga Midway College a 1989; A shekara mai zuwa, ta aka cire daga hukumar regents na Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Ta cire aka ta atomatik jawo bayan ta rasa uku a jere hukumar tarurruka tsakanin 1986 da 1989. A 1990, Collins yarda da shugabancin Saint Catharine College a Springfield, Kentucky, zama na farko shugaban kananan Katolika koleji, wanda ba a Dominican nun. Jami'an bayyana cewa Collins aka kurtu domin shugabancin ya tada shugabancin ta koleji.
10 ga Oktoba, 1997