List of presidents of New York University

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New York University (NYU) is a private research university located in New York City, [2] which was founded by Albert Gallatin in 1831. [3] The "president and chancellor", often shortened to president, is the highest authority in the university after the board of trustees, [4] serving as its chief executive and chief academic officer. [5] From the university's founding until June 1956, the position was simply titled "chancellor". [6]

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The president is elected by the board of trustees, and serves as an ex officio member of the board. The president recommends persons to fill the university's senior offices, including provost, executive vice president, general counsel, and deans, who are then appointed by the board. The president also presides over the university senate and confers all degrees, with the board's authorization and upon certification of a student by the faculty. [5]

The president is provided a penthouse residence, which is owned by the university, on Washington Square Park. [7] As of 2021, the president received over $1.5 million in annual compensation. [8] The current president, Linda G. Mills, a social worker who is the university's first female president, assumed office on July 1, 2023. [9]

Presidents and chancellors

Presidents
No.ImageNameTerm startTerm endRef.
Chancellors of the University of the City of New York (1831–1896)
1 James M. Matthews 18311839 [10]
2 Frelinghuysen.jpg Theodore Frelinghuysen [a] 18391850 [b] [11]
3 Isaac Ferris - Brady-Handy.jpg Isaac Ferris [c] 18531870 [12]
4 Howard Crosby.jpg Howard Crosby [d] 18701881 [13] [14]
5 Portrait of John Hall.jpg John Hall 18811891 [13]
6 Henry MacCracken.jpg Henry Mitchell MacCracken [e] 18911911 [15]
Chancellors of New York University (1896–1956)
7 PSM V72 D195 Elmer Ellsworth Brown.png Elmer Ellsworth Brown [f] 19111933 [16]
8 Harry Woodburn Chase.jpg Harry Woodburn Chase [g] 19331951 [17]
Acting James Loomis Madden 19511952 [18]
9 Henry Townley Heald [h] 19521956 [i] [6]
Presidents of New York University (1956–present)
10 Carroll Vincent Newsom 19561962 [19]
11 James McNaughton Hester [j] 19621975 [20] [21] [20]
12 John C. Sawhill [k] 19751980 [23] [24]
Acting Ivan Loveridge Bennett [l] 19801981 [25]
13 John Brademas 2.jpg John Brademas [m] July 1, 1981November 20, 1991 [26] [27] [28]
14 L. Jay Oliva November 21, 1991May 16, 2002 [29]
15 John Sexton on NYU Local.jpg John Sexton [n] May 17, 2002December 31, 2015 [30]
16 Water Security 2015 Conference (23468652260) (cropped).jpg Andrew D. Hamilton [o] January 1, 2016June 30, 2023 [31] [32] [33]
17 Linda G. Mills (cropped).jpg Linda G. Mills July 1, 2023present [9]

Table notes:

  1. ↑ New Jersey Attorney General (1817–1828); United States Senator from New Jersey (1829–1835); Mayor of Newark (1837–1838); President of Rutgers College (1850–1862)
  2. ↑ Resigned to head Rutgers College
  3. ↑ Founder of the Rutgers Female Institute
  4. ↑ Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1873–1874)
  5. ↑ Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania (1881–1884)
  6. ↑ United States Commissioner of Education (1906–1911)
  7. ↑ President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1919–1930); President of the University of Illinois System (1930–1933)
  8. ↑ President of the Illinois Institute of Technology (1940–1952); President of the Ford Foundation (1956–1965)
  9. ↑ Resigned to head Ford Foundation.
  10. ↑ Provost of LIU Brooklyn (1957); Vice President of Long Island University (1958–1960); Dean of NYU College & Graduate School of Arts & Science (1960–1962); Rector of the United Nations University (1975–1980); President of the New York Botanical Garden (1980–1989); and President of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (1989–2004)
  11. ↑ Director of the Federal Energy Administration (1974); [22] Deputy Secretary of Energy (1979–1980); CEO of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation (1980–1981); President of The Nature Conservancy (1990–2000)
  12. ↑ Acting president. Dean of NYU School of Medicine and Provost of NYU Medical Center (1969–1981)
  13. ↑ United States Representative from Indiana (1959–1981); [26] House Majority Whip (1977–1981)
  14. ↑ Dean of NYU School of Law (1988–2002)
  15. ↑ Provost of Yale University (2004–2008); Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (2009–2016)

See also

References

Citations

  1. ↑ "Office of the President". New York University. Archived from the original on August 25, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  2. ↑ "About NYU". New York University. Archived from the original on August 25, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  3. ↑ "History of NYU". New York University. Archived from the original on August 25, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  4. ↑ "The University Charter". New York University. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  5. 1 2 "University Bylaws". New York University. June 8, 2022. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  6. 1 2 Farber, M. A. (November 25, 1975). "Dr. Henry Heald of Ford Fund Dead". The New York Times . p. 40. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  7. ↑ Saul, Stephanie (December 21, 2015). "N.Y.U. President's Penthouse Gets a Face-Lift Worth $1.1 Million (or More)". The New York Times . Archived from the original on August 27, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  8. ↑ "New York University". ProPublica. May 9, 2013. Archived from the original on August 27, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  9. 1 2 Saul, Stephanie (February 15, 2023). "N.Y.U. Chooses Linda Mills as Its Next President". The New York Times . Archived from the original on April 3, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  10. ↑ General Alumni Catalogue of New York University 1906, p. 273.
  11. ↑ "Frelinghuysen, Theodore". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Archived from the original on August 27, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Guide to the Isaac Ferris Papers MC.76". New York University Archives. January 19, 2022. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  13. 1 2 Herring 1918, p. 259.
  14. ↑ "Crosby, Howard". Database of Classical Scholars. Rutgers University. Archived from the original on June 27, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  15. ↑ "Guide to the Administrative Papers of the Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken". New York University Archives. January 19, 2022. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  16. ↑ "Guide to the Elmer Ellsworth Brown Papers MC.16". New York University Archives. January 18, 2022. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  17. ↑ "Guide to the Administrative Papers of the Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase". New York University Archives. January 18, 2022. Archived from the original on November 30, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  18. ↑ "Guide to the Records of the Office of the Vice President and Secretary (Harold O. Voorhis) RG.4.0.1". New York University Archives. January 25, 2022. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  19. ↑ Ravo, Nick (February 5, 1990). "Carroll V. Newsom, 85, President Of N.Y.U. Who First Taught at 14". The New York Times . p. 11. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  20. 1 2 Roberts, Sam (January 6, 2015). "James Hester, 90, Dies; Guided N.Y.U. to Become a Major University". The New York Times . Archived from the original on December 6, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  21. ↑ "James McNaughton Hester Papers MC.51". New York University Archives. July 29, 2020. Archived from the original on July 2, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  22. ↑ Anders 1980, pp. 4–5.
  23. ↑ Stout, David (May 20, 2000). "John Sawhill, Ex-N.Y.U. Chief Who Led Conservation Group, Dies at 63". The New York Times . p. 11. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Sawhill Rejoins McKinsey & Co". The New York Times . March 3, 1981. p. 2. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  25. ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (July 23, 1990). "Dr. I. L. Bennett Jr., 68, Ex-Dean Of N.Y.U.'s School of Medicine". The New York Times . p. 8. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  26. 1 2 McFadden, Robert D. (July 11, 2016). "John Brademas, Indiana Congressman and N.Y.U. President, Dies at 89". The New York Times . Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Brademas, John (1927–2016)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Archived from the original on August 27, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  28. ↑ "Brademas and Koch at City Hall". New York Daily News . May 20, 1981. p. 145. Koch used to speak for the Greenwich Village district in the House of Representatives when Brademas was majority whip. And they hope to see more of each other now that Brademas becomes NYU president on July 1.
  29. ↑ Martin, Douglas (April 22, 2014). "L. Jay Oliva, Who Led the Rise of N.Y.U. in the '90s, Dies at 80". The New York Times . Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  30. ↑ "John Sexton". New York University School of Law. Archived from the original on June 22, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  31. ↑ Hamilton, Andrew (April 13, 2022). "A Letter from NYU President Andrew Hamilton". New York University. Archived from the original on May 11, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  32. ↑ "Andrew Hamilton". Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Archived from the original on April 5, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  33. ↑ Taylor, Kate (March 18, 2015). "Named Next President of N.Y.U., Oxford's Leader Inherits Challenges From John Sexton". The New York Times . Archived from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2023.

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