News Release
May 21, 2002
Manhattan College President Thomas J. Scanlan, F.S.C. Elected to cIcu Board of Trustees
Thomas J. Scanlan, F.S.C., president of Manhattan College, has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu) of New York State. He previously served as chairman of the Commission from 1998 to 2000.
Br. Scanlan has been Manhattan president since 1987. Previously, he was a director of finance and education for the New York Province of the Brothers of the Christian Schools until appointed vice chancellor and chief executive officer of Bethlehem University in the Holy Land in 1980.
He is a recipient of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal and is a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education.
Br. Scanlan received his B.A. degree in physics from The Catholic University of America, his M.A. degree in mathematics from New York University, and his Ph.D. in business administration from Columbia University.
Other new members elected to the cIcu Board of Trustees are: Frances D. Fergusson, president of Vassar College; Stephen Greenwald, president of Audrey Cohen College; Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College, Columbia University; Stuart Rabinowitz, president of Hofstra University; and Daniel F. Sullivan, president of St. Lawrence University.
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The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) represents the chief executives of New York's 100+ independent (private, not-for-profit) colleges and universities on issues of public policy. Member colleges compose the largest private sector of higher education in the world and confer most of the bachelor's degrees (56%), master's degrees (72%), and doctoral and first-professional degrees (80%) earned in New York State.
CICU member campuses enroll more than 466,000 students, including nearly 300,000 New York State residents. One in three (27%) New Yorkers enrolled full time at independent colleges and universities in the state comes from a family earning less than $40,000 annually. And most (52%) African-American and Latino students who earn their bachelor's and graduate degrees in New York State are Independent Sector alumni.