Shirley Marie Tilghman,is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy and president emerita of Princeton University. In 2002,Discover magazine recognized her as one of the 50 most important women in science.
The University System of Maryland (USM) is a public university system in the U.S. state of Maryland. The system is composed of the eleven campuses at College Park,Baltimore County,Baltimore,Princess Anne,Towson,Salisbury,Bowie,Frostburg,Hagerstown,Rockville,Cambridge,and Adelphi,along with four regional higher education centers located throughout the state.
Furman University is a private university in Greenville,South Carolina,United States. Founded in 1826 and named after Baptist pastor Richard Furman,the liberal arts university is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina. It became a secular university in 1992,while keeping Christo et Doctrinae as its motto. As of Fall 2021,it enrolls approximately 2,300 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students on its 750-acre (304 ha) campus.
Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City,New York. Adelphi also has centers in Downtown Brooklyn,Hudson Valley,and Suffolk County in addition to a virtual,online campus for remote students. It is the oldest institution of higher education in suburban Long Island. As of 2019,it had about 7,859 undergraduate and graduate students.
Mitchell Elias Daniels Jr. is an American academic administrator,businessman,author,and retired politician who served as the 49th governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. A Republican,he later served as president of Purdue University from 2013 until the end of 2022.
A provost is a senior academic administrator. At many institutions of higher education,the provost is the chief academic officer,a role that may be combined with being deputy to the chief executive officer (president). In some institutions,they may be the chief executive officer of a university,or of a branch campus of a university,or of a college within a university.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian economist,who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. She is the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General.
Thomas Joseph Donohue Sr. was an American business executive. He served as the President and CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce located in Washington,D.C. from 1997 to 2021. During his leadership of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,Donohue established the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and was president of the National Chamber Foundation. Before his leadership at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,Donohue was President and CEO of the American Trucking Association.
A head of college or head of house is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university. The title used varies between colleges,including dean,master,president,principal,provost,rector and warden.
Jaci Clement is a media expert with more than 20 years experience in the communications industry. She is chief executive officer and executive director of the Fair Media Council,which advocates for quality news and works to create a media-savvy society in a media-driven world. FMC is headquartered on Long Island,New York.
Lynn C. Pasquerella is an American academic and the 14th president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Before she assumed this position,she was the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley,Massachusetts,serving from 2010 to 2016. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island for 22 years before becoming URI's Associate Dean of the Graduate School. From 2006 to 2008 she was Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Rhode Island. She was the Provost of the University of Hartford from 2008 to 2010. She also served as the President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society from 2018 to 2021.
Dowling College was a private college on Long Island,New York. It was established in 1968 and had its main campus located in Oakdale,New York on the site of William K. Vanderbilt's mansion Idle Hour. Dowling also included a campus in Shirley,which contained the college's aviation program and athletic complexes,and small campuses in Melville and Manhattan.
Helen "Lena" S. Astin was an American academic who was a professor at the University of California,Los Angeles and Senior Scholar of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. She is most known for her scholarly activism and research concerning higher education issues of women and minority students,as well as women’s career development. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Research Award of Division J of the American Education Research Association and received the Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman and former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance,before stepping down in September 2023. Brewer is the first woman to become CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance,group president and COO of Starbucks,and CEO of Sam's Club. She currently serves as a member of the President's Export Council.
Colin Bryan Riordan FLSW is a British academic who was formerly President and Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University from September 2012 to August 2023.
Edward Guiliano is an American author,professor and the third president of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT).
Robert A. Bradway is an American businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Amgen.
Henry C. "Hank" Foley is the current president of New York Institute of Technology,serving since June 1,2017.
Purdue University Global,Inc. is a public online university that is a separately accredited part of the Purdue University system. Its primary focus is educating working adults.
