The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States,comprising 25 campuses:eleven senior colleges,seven community colleges,and seven professional institutions. The university enrolls more than 275,000 students and counts thirteen Nobel Prize winners and twenty-four MacArthur Fellows among its alumni.
The State University of New York is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. It is one of the largest comprehensive systems of universities,colleges,and community colleges in the United States. Led by chancellor John B. King,the SUNY system has 91,182 employees,including 32,496 faculty members,and some 7,660 degree and certificate programs overall and a $13.37 billion budget. Its flagship universities are SUNY Stony Brook on Long Island in southeastern New York and SUNY Buffalo in the west. Its research university centers also include SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Albany.
Herman Carl McCall is an American politician of the Democratic Party. A former New York State Comptroller and New York State Senator,McCall was the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York in 2002. McCall was the first African-American to be elected New York State Comptroller. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ,and is on the board of directors of several corporations. From October 17,2011,until his retirement on June 30,2019,McCall was chairman of the State University of New York Board of Trustees.
Hugh Leo Carey was an American politician and attorney of the Democratic Party who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961 to 1974 and as the 51st governor of New York from 1975 to 1982.
Richard Ravitch was an American politician and businessman who served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to the position in July 2009 by New York Governor David Paterson. A native of New York City,he graduated from Yale Law School and he worked in his family's real estate development business,a number of government and government-appointed positions,including with the New York State Urban Development Corporation and Metropolitan Transportation Authority,and in private industry,including tenures as chairman of the Bowery Savings Bank and as the chief owner representative in labor negotiations for Major League Baseball.
Robert John Duffy is a former American law enforcement officer and politician who served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 2011 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the 65th Mayor of Rochester,New York from 2006 to 2010.
Kristina M. Johnson is an American professorial electrical engineer,business executive and academic administrator. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.
The Rockefeller Institute of Government is the public policy research arm of the State University of New York. The institute conducts nonpartisan research and analysis on state and local government and finance,American federalism,public management,and New York State issues. The institute is located in Albany,New York,United States.
John William Ryan was an American academic administrator who most notably served as the President of Indiana University for sixteen years.
Deborah Flemma Stanley is an American lawyer and academic administrator who served as president of the State University of New York at Oswego from August 1,1997 until December 2021. In December 2022,she was awarded the honorary title of President Emeritus.
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller,sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky,was the 41st vice president of the United States,serving from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. He had previously served as the 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973,the state's longest-serving governor since the end of the Revolutionary War. Rockefeller was a member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family.
Fieldon King Alexander is an American former university administrator and professor of higher education policy and finance. He was the president of Oregon State University,Louisiana State University,California State University,Long Beach,and Murray State University. He resigned from his most recent position as President of Oregon State University in 2021 after a faculty vote of no-confidence. While at LSU,he was accused of overseeing,and helping to cover up,a culture of rape and domestic violence,where Title IX complaints were routinely dismissed. The complaint was amended in 2022 to drop Alexander from the suit.
Brian H. Hook is an American diplomat,lawyer and government official. In 2021,he joined Cerberus Capital Management as vice chairman for global investments. He is an adjunct professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute is a public university in Marcy,New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system,serving as its institute of technology. The university,formerly the SUNY Institute of Technology,has a Utica,New York mailing address and was established in 1987.
David Michael Van Slyke is an American academic and the Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the professor of government and policy affairs and Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy. He previously taught at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
Donald Mayer Blinken was an American businessman and diplomat. A co-founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus,he was the chairman of the board of the State University of New York from 1978 to 1990. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary from 1994 to 1997. His son,Antony Blinken,is the seventy-first United States Secretary of State,serving in the cabinet of President Joe Biden.
The President of Stony Brook University serves as the university's Chief Executive Officer. Stony Brook's President,in addition to his or her duties to the university's many academic programs,also oversees the Stony Brook University Hospital with its five health science programs and 120 community-based service centers. The President additionally plays an integral role in the economic development of Long Island,New York through Stony Brook's capacity as co-manager of the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
What will be required is a new attitude toward public higher education,a new state of mind,a new desire to put some real meaning into the motto inscribed in the seal of the State University of New York which says “Let each become all he is capable of being."
In January 2021,Attorney General of New York Letitia James released a report finding that Governor Andrew Cuomo had understated the toll of COVID-19-related deaths in state nursing homes by as much as 83 percent. The scandal was made public on February 11,2021,when the New York Post reported that Melissa DeRosa,a secretary and aide to Cuomo,privately apologized to lawmakers for the administration withholding the nursing-home death toll in fear then-President Donald Trump would "turn this into a giant political football".
Dennis Craig is an American academic administrator who served as the Interim President of both SUNY Purchase and SUNY Oneonta.
