: Warrensburg, Mo. News
UCM president finalist to head Buffalo State, Youngstown State
Jan 25, 2010, 4:02 PM
WARRENSBURG, Mo.—UCM President Aaron Podolefsky is one of three finalists for the presidency of Buffalo State College in Buffalo, N.Y.
Podolefsky will visit Buffalo State Feb. 4-6, and make a campus presentation Feb. 5 at 12:15 p.m.
He is still one of four finalists at Youngstown State University in Ohio. The last finalist at Youngstown is being interviewed this week.
Buffalo State is the largest comprehensive four-year college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It has about 11,000 graduate and undergraduate students.
The 125-acre campus is in the midst of a $300 million construction program, which will include student housing, a science/math complex and rehab of the student union. A $48 million housing complex is due to open next year. About 2,000 students live in campus housing.
The $33 million Burchfield Penney Art Center opened in November 2008. A market-style dining facility recently opened in the student union.
Enrollment is up, despite the recession, with a 7.5 percent increase in freshmen last year, the second-largest number of transfer students since 1997, and a 25 percent increase in graduate student enrollment.
Like UCM, Buffalo State began as a normal school in 1871 to train teachers. It offers about 150 undergraduate majors and about 60 graduate degrees. Located on the shore of Lake Erie, Buffalo State has its own scientific
research ship, the RV John J. Freidhoff.
Buffalo State’s president, Muriel A. Howard, resigned after 13 years to become president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.
The two other finalists for the presidency are:
Kathryn Cruz-Vribe, provost of California State-Monterey Bay. An archeologist, she taught 18 years at Northern Arizona University before taking the Cal State post in 2007. She interviews Feb. 2-4.
William Lowe, provost and history professor from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn. He served as interim president there during the 2007-8 school year. He interviews Feb. 7-9.
Podolefsky will visit Buffalo State Feb. 4-6, and make a campus presentation Feb. 5 at 12:15 p.m.
He is still one of four finalists at Youngstown State University in Ohio. The last finalist at Youngstown is being interviewed this week.
Buffalo State is the largest comprehensive four-year college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It has about 11,000 graduate and undergraduate students.
The 125-acre campus is in the midst of a $300 million construction program, which will include student housing, a science/math complex and rehab of the student union. A $48 million housing complex is due to open next year. About 2,000 students live in campus housing.
The $33 million Burchfield Penney Art Center opened in November 2008. A market-style dining facility recently opened in the student union.
Enrollment is up, despite the recession, with a 7.5 percent increase in freshmen last year, the second-largest number of transfer students since 1997, and a 25 percent increase in graduate student enrollment.
Like UCM, Buffalo State began as a normal school in 1871 to train teachers. It offers about 150 undergraduate majors and about 60 graduate degrees. Located on the shore of Lake Erie, Buffalo State has its own scientific
research ship, the RV John J. Freidhoff.
Buffalo State’s president, Muriel A. Howard, resigned after 13 years to become president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.
The two other finalists for the presidency are:
Kathryn Cruz-Vribe, provost of California State-Monterey Bay. An archeologist, she taught 18 years at Northern Arizona University before taking the Cal State post in 2007. She interviews Feb. 2-4.
William Lowe, provost and history professor from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn. He served as interim president there during the 2007-8 school year. He interviews Feb. 7-9.
