1993-5 
Professor, Ph.D. Program
School for Transformative Learning, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
OF INTEGRAL STUDIES

1983-4 
Director, "Keeping America Working" Project, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES

1963-83 
President and Chief Executive Officer, ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(A College of the State University of New York)

1956-63 
Dean of Instruction, MOHAWK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Utica, NY

1946-56 
Instructor of English; Chairperson, Division of General Education, MOHAWK
VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

EDUCATION

1965 Ph.D., Higher Education, Syracuse University

1945 M.A., English, Teachers College, Columbia University

1943 B.A., Dramatic Literature, University of California at Berkeley



RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I. International Education and Consulting

Founder, College Consortium on International Studies, a federation of 95 colleges that provides study abroad opportunities to 4,000 students annually in 30 countries.

Founder, Rockland Community College Office of International Studies and its International College, which organize the college's study-abroad programs in some 20 countries, offer technical assistance to schools and colleges abroad, receive and place foreign students, and create curricula incorporating international themes.

Founder, International/Intercultural Consortium of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges; chairman of its Advisory Committee; member of its Curriculum Committee.

Founder, International Services Association of the Community Colleges of the State University of New York.

Founder and Director, Center for Study in Israel.

Consultant to the International Division of the Association of American Publishers and to publishing companies including Prentice Hall, Inc., harcourt brace jovanovich, Inc., and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Consultant to the Canadian Community College Association on its international program.

Founder, North American International Baccalaureate Degree Committee; helped to bring the International Baccalaureate to the U.S.

Principal Lecturer, United States Information Agencies Seminars on community college education, given in five Indian states in 1975. Returned in 1979 under sponsorship of U.S. Fulbright Commission to lecture in four Indian states and to conduct major international conference on community-based education in New Delhi. In 1982, returned under auspices of Asia Foundation to plan vocational education programs.

Community college expert on team of U.S. educators sent by U.S. Department of State to address U.S. and indigenous education advisors of twenty-two African nations in Kenya, 1974.

U.S. Representative to 1978 UNESCO Symposium on Contributions of Higher Education to Community Development.

Chairman, International Student Committee, Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York.

Member, Advisory Committee to the Council on Learning's major study of international education in the U.S.

Lecturer and consultant to Ministries of Education and colleges and universities in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the Soviet Union, and India. Assignments include work in Kenya, Tanzania, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, England, France, Ihe U.S.S.R., Israel, and India.

II. National Service

Lecturer and consultant on aspects of the community college at conferences held at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Topics have included: nontraditional programs and clienteles; open learning systems and instructional technology; community service; general and liberal studies; international programs for U.S. and foreign students.

Member, Board of Directors, United States Distance Learning Association

Member and chairperson of commissions and task forces of the AACJC, the American Council on Education, the Council on Learning, and other professional organizations.

Consultant to the U.S.I.A., the International Communications Agency, the U.S. Office of Education, and other agencies of the United States of government.

Consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress on the community college and instructional technology.

III. Regional, State, and Community Service

Member, Chancellor's Council of Presidents, State University of New York, an organization of two- and four-year college presidents assisting in the formulation and evaluation of policy for the State University.

President, Association of Community College Presidents of New York State.

Member, Board of Directors, New York State Association of Junior Colleges, representing private as well as public two-year colleges.

Member, New York State Commission on Two/Four Year College Relations, formed by the State Department of Education to develop the first two/four year college transfer politicies.

Member, Commission on College Proficiency Examinations, which created the College Proficiency Examination Program of SUNY.

Adjunct Professor of Higher Education, New York University, Rutgers University.

Chairman, Special Task Force of the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York (ACUSNY), representing public and private two- and four-year colleges in their initiatives to increase out-of-state and foreign student enrollments in New York State.

Member, New York State Council on Economic Education.

Member, Rockland County School Executives Association.

Member, Board of Directors, Rockland County Private Industry Council.

Member, Board of Directors, Rockland County Association (the county chamber of commerce).

Member, Board of Directors, Rockland County Local Development Corporation (the county economic development agency).

Member, Board of Trustees, Rockland Country Day School.

Member and chairperson of many regional and local committees, task forces, and informal action groups.

PUBLICATIONS

Guide to the Two-Year Colleges, published by Barron's Educational Series from 1960-1970, presented basic data on more than 800 community and junior colleges and technical institutes as well as counseling on college and career choice. the Guide was widely used by high school and college guidance offices, other counseling agencies, and by parents and students.

Many articles, monographs, conference presentations, and other materials on community college development, nontraditional pedagogies, and international education.