News Release
May 20, 2002
Long Island University President David J. Steinberg Elected Chair of the cIcu Board of Trustees
David J. Steinberg, president of Long Island University, the eighth largest private university in the country, has been elected by the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York to serve as the board's chairman for the next two years. He succeeds Albert J. Simone, president of the Rochester Institute of Technology. President Steinberg was vice chair of the board for the past two years and has served as a trustee for several years.
He has been the University's president since 1985. He holds three degrees from Harvard University, including a Ph.D. of philosophy in history. He also has studied at Malvern College in England, the University of the Philippines, and Columbia University. He began his teaching career at the University of Michigan and was vice president of Brandeis University. President Steinberg is the author of numerous works on Southeast Asia and, in particular, on Philippine history.
Other cIcu Board officers for 2002-03, all of whom are institutional presidents, are: Lisa Marsh Ryerson, Wells College, vice chair; Todd Hutton, Utica College, secretary; and David C. Chang of Polytechnic University, treasurer. Board committee chairs are: Jamienne S. Studley of Skidmore College, Legislative Committee; Stuart Rabinowitz of Hofstra University, Communications Committee and David C. Chang of Polytechnic University, Finance and Administrative Committee.
Newly elected members of the 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; Thomas J. Scanlan, F.S.C., president of Manhattan College; 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.