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Contact: Vince Sweeney (518) 442-3075
NYC, SYRACUSE, WATERTOWN AND WYOMING COUNTY
SEND POLICE OFFICERS TO GRADUATE SCHOOL IN ALBANY
Police officers from New York City, Watertown, Syracuse and Wyoming County, will
be honored guests at a reception in Albany on Wednesday, September 6, marking their
metriculation as graduate students in the School of Criminal Justice at the
University at Albany, The reception begins at 4 p.m, in the office of University
President Vincent O’Leary on the second floor of the administration building.
Two sheriffs deputies, Sgt. Steven Tarbell of the Wyoming County Sheriffs
Department and Deputy Sheriff Evelyn Pack of Onondaga County, and two municipal
police officers, Sergeant Luis Medina of the New York City Transit Police Department
and Officer Cynthia Shelmidine of the Watertown Police Department, are the first
recipients under a new program of fellowships to the school leading to a Master of
Arts degree in criminal justice. More than 28,000 sheriffs deputies and municipal
police officers eatewiae are eligible for the program.
The fellowship program is sponsored by the School of Criminal Justice at the
University at Albany, the Bureau for Municipal Police of the New York State Division
of Criminal Justice Services, the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, the
New York State Sheriffs’ Association, the Police Conference of New York and the
Governor’s Office of Employee Relations. Two Albany philanthropists, attorneys
Irving Kirsch and Sidney Albert, have donated furnished apartments for the use of the
officers while they are in Albany,
The new fellowship program augments existing programs which have enabled two New
York City police officers to study at Albany each year since 1970, and six State
Police officers each year since 1985,
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University at Albany Psychologist Receives National Award
Dr. David H. Barlow, a University at Albany psychologist who is one of the
most important figures in the field of anxiety disorders and their treatment,
has received a major award from the American Psychological Association
(APA).
Barlow, of Delmar, was named recipient of the Distinguished Scientist
Award from the Clinical Research Section of the APA’s Division of Clinical
Psychology at the group’s annual convention in New Orleans recently. The APA
represents more than 68,000 psychologists in some 40 divisions nationwide,
[ including more than 6,000 individuals in the Division of Clinical Psychology
who are primarily interested in research.
The Distinguished Scientist Award honors Barlow’s career-long
| contributions to advancing the scientific bases of clinical psychology. Along
with his work into the nature and treatment of anxiety disorders, Barlow is
recognized as an expert into the causes of various sexual-function problems and
for his efforts to help train psychologists who are good at both clinical work
and the research that underpins it,
Barlow is the author of Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and
Treatment of Anxiety and Panic, which was published last year by the
Guilford Press and represents the culmination of a decade of work, The
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landmark book ties theory and research to emerging clinical knowledge to
create a new model of anxiety with profound implications for treatment.
Barlow is also editor of such classics as Clinical Handbook of
Psychological Disorders and Behavioral Assessment of Adult Disorders, coeditor
of Phobia and coauthor of The Scientist-Practitioner: Research and
Accountability in Clinical and Educational Settings.
Barlow came to the University in 1979 and has served as codirector of its
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders since 1982, He is vice chair of the
American Psychiatric Association’s Committee to Revise the Anxiety Disorders
Categories for DSM-IV.
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Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
University at Albany Fund Tops Goal
Sets Record in Contributions Received
The University at Albany Annual Fund has reported a 60 percent increase in
contributors and a 77 percent increase in contributions for the fiscal year which
ended June 30--- the largest increase in its 16 year history. The Annual Fund
received more than $718,000, far surpassing the goal of $650,000. Christian G.
Kersten, Vice President for University Advancement, credited the rise to
hard-working alumni and parent volunteers and 100 student callers. It reflects
"an increased commitment by alumni toward the advancement of their alma mater,"
he said.
This year, the University also initiated its first broad-based volunteer
solitication program through the President’s Club, chaired by Judith Mysliborski,
M.D., 69, and assisted by Roy McEnerney ’65 (Capital District), Richard Thorns
60 (Manhattan) and Edmund and Maris Wolf, National Chairpersons for Parents.
According to John Beauvais, Director of Annual Giving, Annual Fund gifts
support student aid, construction, libraries, faculty recruitment and special
projects of Albany’s schools and colleges. "New York State provided just 48
percent of Albany’s annual operating budget last year," he said, "The remainder
is earned through sponsored research, tuition, and other campus generated funds
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and private gifts and grants."
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"A total of 13,793 supporters contributed toward this year’s record, compared
to 8,688 the previous year, reflecting an increase of 60 percent", Beauvais
said. Alumni contributed $477,000, a better than $200,000 increase over 1987.
Parents donated more than $100,000--- an increase of 128 percent over the
previous year. President Vincent O’Leary sums up the importance of the year’s
record achievement. "Gifts to the Annual Fund are critical to Albany," he said.
"They help us retain the best faculty and to educate the best students; in short
they help sustain our tripartite mission of education, research and community
service."
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Contact: Lisa N. James (518) 442-3093
Lynn Videka-Sherman Appointed Dean Of School Of Social Welfare
Dr. Lynn Videka-Sherman, associate professor in the School of Social Welfare at the
University at Albany, has been appointed dean of that school, effective this month.
In her new position, she says she plans to "provide leadership for education and
knowledge development and to maintain a good working relationship with state, local,
and federal agencies to insure that the school keeps its stature as one of the best
programs of social welfare in the country."
Videka-Sherman, who came to the University in the fall of 1981, earned her Ph.D.
at the University of Chicago, Previously, she was a nurse and social worker who
worked with teenage parents, dying patients and their families in hospital settings,
and mental health clients,
She recently wrote a report for the periodical Social Work about the
effectiveness of social work practice in outpatient mental health settings, involving
face-to-face contact between a social worker and a client who experienced
difficulties in daily functioning or interpersonal relationships. Her conclusion was
that certain intervention approaches enhance effectiveness of mental health programs.
During her years at the University at Albany, Videka-Sherman has conducted and
participated in research projects on a variety of social work subjects including
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evaluating the effectiveness of intervention for child abuse and neglect. She also
has co-produced a study on the relationship between the death of a child and the way
parents cope with it. In this report, it was found that the healing time for parents
is related to a variety of factors including the cause of the child’s death, the age
of the child and whether or not there were other surviving children. She also found
that social and ethnic differences played a major part in the method and length of
parental bereavement.
Her reports and articles have, appeared in Social Work, the American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry and the Social Service Review.
Videka-Sherman resides in Glenmont.
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discovery -- just reported this month -- of the genetic defect that causes cystic fibrosis at a
conference Sept. 2)-24 at the Rensselaerville Conference: Center. Riordan is one of three
leaders of the research team that made the discovery.
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: The conference focus is the molecular structure and genetics of ion channels, which are
i a category of proteins that regulate the flow of ions, charged atoms, in and out of cells, In
| recent years, ion channels have emerged as critical factors in many cell functions and, in
fact, a basic feature of cystic fibrosis is a failure in the normal movement of sodium and
| chloride atoms in and out of cells. The Riordan team discovered a seemingly tiny mutation
| that causes a single gene to produce a defective protein and that protein, they reported, is
what apparently interferes with the movement of the sodium and chloride atoms. Cystic
fibrosis involves a failure of various glands to work properly.
Riordan is scheduled to speak Sunday, Sept. 24 at 10:30 a.m.
The conference, which will bring together leading researchers from across the U.S., is
sponsored by the Center for Molecular Genetics at the University at Albany, Albany Medical
College, the state Health Department’s Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, the
Center for Biotechnology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the
Sterling Research Group.
Riordan and other conference participants will be available to talk with reporters
throughout the conference. For further information, call David Shub, University at Albany
molecular biologist, at 442-4324 or Carmen Mannella, molecular biologist at the School of
Public Health, at 474-2462,
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KERNER COMMISSION SUBJECT OF TALK ON SEPTEMBER 27
Richard P. Nathan, past associate director of the National Comission for Civil
Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission, will speak on the "Kerner Commission
Report: The Status of Black and White America" at 12:15 p.m., Wednesday, September
27, 1989, in the ballroom of the Campus Center at the University at Albany. His
talk, which is free and open to the public, is the first of this year’s weekly
Campus Forum lecture series on contemporary issues.
Nathan, now Provost of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at
the University, is a nationally recognized expert on federalism and U.S. domestic
policy.
Violent upheavals occurred in ghetto areas of numerous cities in the United
States during the summer of 1967. The Detroit riots from July 25 through the 28th
were particularly violent. Federal troops had to be brought in to quell civil
disturbance for the first time since 1943. Casualties for the Detroit riot
totaled 41 dead, 347 injured. Some 1,300 buildings were burned to the ground and
an additional 2,500 businesses were looted.
In response to the rioting, President Lyndon Johnson asked Illinois Governor
Otto Kerner to head a blue ribbon commission to the study the problem and
recommend solutions. Richard Nathan was associate director of the project.
Nathan joined the University in June from Princeton University. He served as
assistant director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget from 1969 to 1972
and as deputy undeersecretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
in 1972.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Peggy L.S. Barmore (518) 442-3092
UNIVERSITY APPOINTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH
A 21-member panel has been appointed by the University at Albany to assist in
identifying and selecting a replacement for outgoing-President Vincent O’Leary, who
recently announced his resignation.
The search advisory committee, comprised of representatives of the broad range of
campus constituencies, was created by the University Council, the body with legal
responsibility to conduct the presidential search and to make a recommendation to the
SUNY Chancellor and the Board of Trustees. The committee includes 11 faculty members
and four students.
Council Chair Alan V. Iselin said the committee will aid in developing criteria for
the position; encourage nominations of qualified potential candidates; and evaluate
finalists, reporting its findings to the University Council. A screening panel,
comprised of eight members of the advisory committee, will review the full field of
candidates, narrow the group down to those best qualified for intensive
consideration. The advisory committee will interview the finalists on campus and make
its recommendations to the University Council. Iselin will chair both the advisory
committee and the screening panel.
O’Leary announced in September that he would step down from the post effective ingg-» - ,
summer 1990 to resume his position as professor in the University’s School of
Criminal Justice, (
Members of the advisory committee include five members of the University Council:
Iselin, Troy attorney Richard Hanft, Schenectady attorney Athena Kouray, Albany
attorney John Holt-Harris, and University undergraduate Shawn Thompson; members of
the teaching faculty and professional staff: Edna Acosta-Belen, David Bayley, Sharon
Bonk, Ronald Bosco, Shirley Brown, Douglas Windham, William Lanford, Richard Hall,
Carl Martin, Kenneth Demerjian and Lakshmi Mohan; two undergraduate students, Andy
DiPalma and Nadya Lawson; graduate student Frances Lawrance; alumna Susan Shipherd,
president of the University at Albany Alumni Association; and a community
representative, Kenneth Buhrmaster, chairman of First National Bank of Scotia.
The nationwide search is expected to take six months.
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VINCENT O’LEARY, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, RESIGNS
Vincent O’Leary, president of the University at Albany since 1977, announced his
resignation at the annual fall faculty meeting, Thursday, September 14. His
resignation will become effective at the end of the current academic year; and he
will remain at the University as a member of the faculty.
O’Leary said that the time “seemed reasonable both for myself and for this
institution” and that he would “return to what I have always characterized as the
finest of all endeavors---the life of the professor.” He will pursue his interests
in the field of criminal justice in which he is a nationally recognized scholar.
"The University is strong, poised to continue moving forward, and in the best
position to select the person to lead it into the year 2000," he added.
O’Leary’s appointment as the institution’s 14th president was confirmed by the
Board of Trustees in May of 1978. He had served as acting president since August
1977, He has guided his school through early years of state-mandated retrenchments
to its current position as one of the leading research and graduate centers in the
country.
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In 1987, O’Leary was named one of the top college presidents nationally in an
/ Exxon Education Foundation study. O’Leary was a leader in developing the Graduate
| , Research Initiative, through which the Governor and Legislature have earmarked
additional funds to the four SUNY university centers to help them improve their
* graduate and research programs.
Though designated a State University of New York university center just 26 years
ago, the University at Albany has already grown to national stature. It was listed
among the the top 100 USS. universities in 1987 in the amount of federal research
and development funds received. 1
Total doctoral programs now number 28 with cight new programs added during the
tenure of President O’Leary. Eight new programs were also added at the master’s
| degree level, bringing that total to 54.
While student enrollment expanded by some 10 percent, research funds have grown
from some $6 million to more than $40 million annually.
i In 1981, the University at Albany strengthened its commitment to public policy
i with the establishment of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and
Policy, the largest public affairs graduate school in New York State. More
recently, in a joint venture with the New York State Department of Health, the
University created a School of Public Health,
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| New York State Writers Institute in 1984. The Institute evolved from a visiting
One of the highlights of the O’Leary era at Albany was legislation creating the
writers program inaugurated by O’Leary and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William
Kennedy.
Kennedy had received the MacArthur Foundation grant, awarding him five years of
financial support and granting an additional $15,000 each year for an associated
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Contact: Vince Sweeney (518) 442-3075
NYC, SYRACUSE, WATERTOWN AND WYOMING COUNTY
SEND POLICE OFFICERS TO GRADUATE SCHOOL IN ALBANY
Police officers from New York City, Watertown, Syracuse and Wyoming County, will
be honored guests at a reception in Albany on Wednesday, September 6, marking their
mctriculation as graduate students in the School of Criminal Justice at the
University at Albany. The reception begins at 4 p.m. in the office of University
President Vincent O’Leary on the second floor of the administration building.
Two sheriffs deputies, Sgt. Steven Tarbell of the Wyoming County Sheriffs
Department and Deputy Sheriff Evelyn Pack of Onondaga County, and two municipal
police officers, Sergeant Luis Medina of the New York City Transit Police Department
and Officer Cynthia Shelmidine of the Watertown Police Department, are the first
recipients under a new program of fellowships to the school leading to a Master of
Arts degree in criminal justice. More than 28,000 sheriffs deputies and municipal
police officers statewide are eligible for the program.
The fellowship program is sponsored by the School of Criminal Justice at the
University at Albany, the Bureau for Municipal Police of the New York State Division
of Criminal Justice Services, the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, the
New York State Sheriffs’ Association, the Police Conference of New York and the
Governor’s Office of Employee Relations. Two Albany philanthropists, attorneys
Irving Kirsch and Sidney Albert, have donated furnished apartments for the use of the
officers while they are in Albany.
The new fellowship program augments existing programs which have enabled two New
York City police officers to study at Albany each year since 1970, and six State
Police officers each year since 1985,
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Contact: Christine Hanson McKnight or Mary Fiess (518) 442-3091
University at Albany Psychologist Receives National Award
Dr, David H. Barlow, a University at Albany psychologist who is one of the
most important figures in the field of anxiety disorders and their treatment,
has received a major award from the American Psychological Association
(APA).
Barlow, of Delmar, was named recipient of the Distinguished Scientist
Award from the Clinical Research Section of the APA’s Division of Clinical
Psychology at the group’s annual convention in New Orleans recently. The APA
represents more than 68,000 psychologists in some 40 divisions nationwide,
including more than 6,000 individuals in the Division of Clinical Psychology
who are primarily interested in research,
The Distinguished Scientist Award honors Barlow’s carecr-long
contributions to advancing the scientific bases of clinical psychology. Along
with his work into the nature and treatment of anxiety disorders, Barlow is
recognized as an expert into the causes of various sexual-function problems and
for his efforts to help train psychologists who are good at both clinical work
and the research that underpins it.
Barlow is the author of Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and
Treatment of Anxiety and Panic, which was published last year by the
Guilford Press and represents the culmination of a decade of work. The
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landmark book ties theory and research to emerging clinical knowledge to
create a new model of anxiety with profound implications for treatment.
Barlow is also editor of such classics as Clinical Handbook of
Psychological Disorders and Behavioral Assessment of Adult Disorders, coeditor
of Phobia and coauthor of The Scientist-Practitioner: Research and
Accountability in Clinical and Educational Settings.
Barlow came to the University in 1979 and has served as codirector of its
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders since 1982, He is vice chair of the
American Psychiatric Association’s Committee to Revise the Anxiety Disorders
Categories for DSM-IV.
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Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
University at Albany Fund Tops Goal
1 Sets Record in Contributions Received
i The University at Albany Annual Fund has reported a 60 percent increase in
contributors and a 77 percent increase in contributions for the fiscal year which
ended June 30--- the largest increase in its 16 year history. The Annual Fund
received more than $718,000, far surpassing the goal of $650,000. Christian G.
Kersten, Vice President for University Advancement, credited the rise to
hard-working alumni and parent volunteers and 100 student callers. It reflects
"an increased commitment by alumni toward the advancement of their alma mater,"
he said,
This year, the University also initiated its first broad-based volunteer
solitication program through the President’s Club, chaired by Judith Mysliborski,
M.D., ’69, and assisted by Roy McEnerney ’65 (Capital District), Richard Thorns
60 (Manhattan) and Edmund and Maris Wolf, National Chairpersons for Parents.
According to John Beauvais, Director of Annual Giving, Annual Fund gifts
support student aid, construction, libraries, faculty recruitment and special
i projects of Albany’s schools and colleges. "New York State provided just 48
percent of Albany’s annual operating budget last year," he said. "The remainder
is earned through sponsored research, tuition, and other campus generated funds
and private gifts and grants."
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"A total of 13,793 supporters contributed toward this year's record, compared
to 8,688 the previous year, reflecting an increase of 60 percent", Beauvais
said, Alumni contributed $477,000, a better than $200,000 increase over 1987.
Parents donated more than $100,000--- an increase of 128 percent over the
previous year. President Vincent O’Leary sums up the importance of the year’s
record achievement. "Gifts to the Annual Fund are critical to Albany," he said.
"They help us retain the best faculty and to educate the best students; in short
they help sustain our tripartite mission of education, research and community
service,"
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Contact: Lisa N. James (518) 442-3093
Lynn Videka-Sherman Appointed Dean Of School Of Social Welfare
Dr. Lynn Videka-Sherman, associate professor in the School of Social Welfare at the
University at Albany, has been appointed dean of that school, effective this month.
In her new position, she says she plans to "provide leadership for education and
knowledge development and to maintain a good working relationship with state, local,
and federal agencies to insure that the school keeps its stature as one of the best
programs of social welfare in the country."
Videka-Sherman, who came to the University in the fall of 1981, earned her Ph.D.
at the University of Chicago, Previously, she was a nurse and social worker who
worked with teenage parents, dying patients and their families in hospital settings,
and mental health clients.
She recently wrote a report for the periodical Social Work about the
effectiveness of social work practice in outpatient mental health settings, involving
face-to-face contact between a social worker and a client who experienced
difficulties in daily functioning or interpersonal relationships. Her conclusion was
that certain intervention approaches enhance effectiveness of mental health programs,
During her years at the University at Albany, Videka-Sherman has conducted and
participated in research projects on a variety of social work subjects including
evaluating the effectiveness of intervention for child abuse and neglect. She also
has co-produced a study on the relationship between the death of a child and the way
parents cope with it. In this report, it was found that the healing time for parents
is related to a variety of factors including the cause of the child’s death, the age
of the child and whether or not there were other surviving children, She also found
that social and ethnic differences played a major part in the method and length of
parental bereavement.
Her reports and articles have appeared in Social Work. the American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry and the Social Service Review.
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VINCENT O’LEARY, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, RESIGNS
Vincent O’Leary, president of the University at Albany since 1977, announced his
resignation at the annual fall faculty meeting, Thursday, September 14. His
resignation will become effective at the end of the current academic year; and he
will remain at the University as a member of the faculty.
O’Leary said that the time "seemed reasonable both for myself and for this
institution" and that he would "return to what I have always characterized as the
finest of all endeavors---the life of the professor." He will pursue his interests
in the field of criminal justice in which he is a nationally recognized scholar.
"The University is strong, poised to continue moving forward, and in the best
position to select the person to lead it into the year 2000," he added.
O’Leary’s appointment as the institution’s 14th president was confirmed by the
Board of Trustees in May of 1978. He had served as acting president since August
1977. He has guided his school through early years of state-mandated retrenchments
to its current position as one of the leading research and graduate centers in the
country.
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Page 2.
In 1987, O’Leary was named one of the top college presidents nationally in an
Exxon Education Foundation study. O’Leary was a leader in developing the Graduate
Research Initiative, through which the Governor and Legislature have earmarked
additional funds to the four SUNY university centers to help them improve their
graduate and research programs.
Though designated a State University of New York university center just 26 years
ago, the University at Albany has already grown to national stature. It was listed
among the the top 100 U.S. universities in 1987 in the amount of federal research
and development funds received.
Total doctoral programs now number 28 with eight new programs added during the
tenure of President O’Leary. Eight new programs were also added at the master’s
degree level, bringing that total to 54,
While student enrollment expanded by some 10 percent, research funds have grown
from some $6 million to more than $40 million annually.
In 1981, the University at Albany strengthened its commitment to public policy
with the establishment of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and
Policy, the largest public affairs graduate school in New York State. More
recently, in a joint venture with the New York State Department of Health, the
University created a School of Public Health.
One of the highlights of the O’Leary era at Albany was legislation creating the
New York State Writers Institute in 1984. The Institute evolved from a visiting
writers program inaugurated by O’Leary and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William
Kennedy,
Kennedy had received the MacArthur Foundation grant, awarding him five years of
financial support and granting an additional $15,000 each year for an associated
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institution, President O’Leary matched the Foundation’s grant, enabling visits by
such distinguished authors as Toni Morrison and Saul Bellow which prompted members
of the legislature to approach William Kennedy suggesting establishment of the
Institute.
O’Leary first came to Albany in 1968 as a professor in the School of Criminal
Justice. In 1976 he was named dean of the school, widely recognized as a leader in
its field.
Despite his duties as university president, O’Leary has maintained his scholarly
credentials in his discipline. He is editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Offender
Rehabilitation, He served as a member of the New York State Committee on Sentencing
Guidelines,
O’Leary served as the assistant director of the President’s Commission on Law
Enforcement and Administration of Justice and was a consultant to the National
Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
He served as director of the division of research information and training of
the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, director of parole for the State of
Texas, and chief probation and parole officer for the State of Washington.
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KERNER COMMISSION SUBJECT OF TALK ON SEPTEMBER 27
: Richard P. Nathan, past associate director of the National Comission for Civil
Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission, will speak on the "Kerner Commission
Report: The Status of Black and White America" at 12:15 p.m., Wednesday, September
27, 1989, in the ballroom of the Campus Center at the University at Albany. His
talk, which is free and open to the public, is the first of this year’s weekly
Campus Forum lecture series on contemporary issues.
Nathan, now Provost of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at
the University, is a nationally recognized expert on federalism and U.S. domestic
policy,
Violent upheavals occurred in ghetto areas of numerous cities in the United
States during the summer of 1967, The Detroit riots from July 25 through the 28th
were particularly violent. Federal troops had to be brought in to quell civil
i disturbance for the first time since 1943, Casualties for the Detroit riot
totaled 41 dead, 347 injured. Some 1,300 buildings were burned to the ground and
an additional 2,500 businesses were looted.
j In response to the rioting, President Lyndon Johnson asked Illinois Governor
if Otto Kerner to head a blue ribbon commission to the study the problem and
recommend solutions, Richard Nathan was associate director of the project.
Nathan joined the University in June from Princeton University. He served as
assistant director of the U.S, Office of Management and Budget from 1969 to 1972
and as deputy undeersecretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
in 1972.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Peggy L.S. Barmore (518) 442-3092
UNIVERSITY APPOINTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH
A 21-member panel has been appointed by the University at Albany to assist in
identifying and selecting a replacement for outgoing-President Vincent O’Leary, who
recently announced his resignation.
The search advisory committee, comprised of representatives of the broad range of
campus constituencies, was created by the University Council, the body with legal
responsibility to conduct the presidential search and to make a recommendation to the
SUNY Chancellor and the Board of Trustees. The committee includes 11 faculty members
and four students,
Council Chair Alan V, Iselin said the committee will aid in developing criteria for
the position; encourage nominations of qualified potential candidates; and evaluate
finalists, reporting its findings to the University Council. A screening panel,
comprised of eight members of the advisory committee, will review the full field of
candidates, narrow the group down to those best qualified for intensive
consideration. The advisory committee will interview the finalists on campus and make
its recommendations to the University Council. Iselin will chair both the advisory
committee and the screening panel.
O’Leary announced in September that he would step down from the post effective in
summer 1990 to resume his position as professor in the University’s School of
Criminal Justice,
Members of the advisory committee include five members of the University Council:
Iselin, Troy attorney Richard Hanft, Schenectady attorney Athena Kouray, Albany
attorney John Holt-Harris, and University undergraduate Shawn Thompson; members of
the teaching faculty and professional staff: Edna Acosta-Belen, David Bayley, Sharon
Bonk, Ronald Bosco, Shirley Brown, Douglas Windham, William Lanford, Richard Hall,
Carl Martin, Kenneth Demerjian and Lakshmi Mohan; two undergraduate students, Andy
DiPalma and Nadya Lawson; graduate student Frances Lawrance; alumna Susan Shipherd,
president of the University at Albany Alumni Association; and a community
representative, Kenneth Buhrmaster, chairman of First National Bank of Scotia,
The nationwide search is expected to take six months.
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institution. President O’Leary matched the Foundation’s grant, enabling visits by
such distinguished authors as Toni Morrison and Saul Bellow which prompted members
of the legislature to approach William Kennedy suggesting establishment of the
Institute.
O’Leary first came to Albany in 1968 as a professor in the School of Criminal
Justice. In 1976 he was named dean of the school, widely recognized as a leader in
its field.
Despite his duties as university president, O’Leary has maintained his scholarly
credentials in his discipline. He is editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Offender
Rehabilitation, He served as a member of the New York State Committee on Sentencing
Guidelines.
O’Leary served as the assistant director of the President’s Commission on Law
Enforcement and Administration of Justice and was a consultant to the National
Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
He served as director of the division of research information and training of
the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, director of parole for the State of
Texas, and chief probation and parole officer for the State of Washington.
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