CICU Announces 2017-18 Board of Trustees Members and Committee Chairs

News Date: 4/27/2017

Albany, NY - At its April 27, 2017 meeting in New York City, the Board of Trustees of The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) in New York elected the members of its 2017-18 Executive Committee and welcomed members elected at its Annual Meeting in March. The chairs and members of the Board’s standing committees were also announced.

CICU’s Board of Trustees represents executive-level participation from colleges and universities in every region of New York State and highlights the diversity of institution type and size within New York State's Independent Sector of higher education.

 

2017-18 Board of Trustees Executive Committee Members:  

Officers:
Chair: Kimberly R. Cline, President, Long Island University
Vice-Chair: Stephen Ainlay, President, Union College 
Secretary: John J. Hurley, President, Canisius College
Treasurer: Conrado M. Gempesaw, President, St. John’s University

 

At-Large:
Drew Bogner, President, Molloy College
Margaret Drugovich, President, Hartwick College
William L. Fox, President, St. Lawrence University
Linda LeMura, President, Le Moyne College
Joseph M. McShane, S.J. President, Fordham University*
Gary Olson, President, Daemen College
Wendy Robinson, President, Helene Fuld College of Nursing
David Yellen, President, Marist College*

 

Trustees:
Stefano Acunto, Public Trustee, College of Mount Saint Vincent; CGB Secretary
Diane Ciccone, Public Trustee, CGB Vice-Chair
Br. F. Edward Coughlin, President, Siena College
Sharon DeVivo, President, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology*
Richard Guarasci, President, Wagner College
Timothy L. Hall, President, Mercy College
Arthur J. Kremer, Public Trustee, CGB Chair
Deana Porterfield, President, Roberts Wesleyan College
Michael G. Scales, President, Nyack College*

 

Ex Officio:
Mary Beth Labate, President, CICU

 

Chairs of the Standing Committees:
Legislative Committee:  Drew Bogner, President, Molloy College
Regulatory Committee: Gary Olson, President, Daemen College
Communications Committee: John J. Hurley, President, Canisius College
Finance and Administrative Committee: Conrado M. Gempesaw, President, St. John’s University
Audit and Compensation Committee: William L. Fox, President, St. Lawrence University
Nominating Committee: Drew Bogner, President, Molloy College

 

CICU’s mission is to develop consensus among its 100+ member campuses and to advance higher education public policy at the state and federal levels. It is the formal organizational liaison with the New York State Board of Regents, the state’s Commissioner of Education, the chancellors of the State University (SUNY) and City University (CUNY); and with the proprietary sector.
 
Note: CICU Board member biographies are online: http://www.CICU.org/about/board-trustees

(*) - Asterisk denotes new members of the Board of Trustees.

 

About The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York 
Founded in 1956, The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) in New York 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 (51%), master’s degrees (73%), and doctoral and first-professional degrees (79%) earned in New York State.