One of the nation’s longest-serving community-college presidents, Stuart Steiner of the State University of New York’s Genesee Community College, has announced his plans to retire at the end of the coming academic year. “Next year at the age of 74 I will be in my 37th year as president of Genesee and my 45th year at the college,” Mr. Steiner wrote in a letter to the campus last week that listed record enrollments and strong financial stability among the college’s achievements. In a recent essay for The Chronicle, Mr. Steiner and another longtime SUNY leader, Joseph Hankin of Westchester Community College, enumerated what they believe to be the defining measures for high-achieving campus chiefs, beginning their list with: “Successful community-college presidents are educators first and foremost.”
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5 Responses to Long-Serving Community-College Leader to Step Down
russy1975 - August 3, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Congratulations Dr. Steiner! I took a grad class he taught at SUNY Buffalo in CC Administration a few years ago. A great leader and a stand up guy!
hlsimmons - August 3, 2010 at 4:11 pm
hlsimmonsHe is a leader of leaders. he has taken the forefront among the community colleges and still can leave comfortably with well established facilities and an enrollment to match. He chaired several important evaluation teams when I served as Executive Director of the Middle States Commission on Higher education.
22216726 - August 3, 2010 at 10:53 pm
President Steiner represents the best of the best and is a living example of the significant role which sound leadership at the CEO level plays in charting the vision of our community colleges to address the myriad of needs of the community served by the two-year college.Congrats Stu and may you continue to be a voice for sound leadership in your retirement. The Chronicle would be well advised to put President Steiner on its regular list of spokesmen addressing issues of concern to its readers.
ksmanning - August 10, 2010 at 11:11 am
Since when is “community college” hyphenated?
goxewu - August 16, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Re #4:It’s common practice to hyphenate such a term as “community-college” when it’s used as a single-word adjective. Otherwise, “community college president” could mean that the person in question is the one member of a particular community who’s a college president. Or, if it were the old term for “community college,” “junior college president” could mean one who’s very young or has been in office only a short time. Think “home-court advantage,” “last-minute reprieve,” etc.