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Zimpher's Future Includes UAlbany Positions as Professor and Advisor





























Outgoing SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, seen meeting UAlbany students on campus in December of 2014, will have faculty and advisor roles at the University after she steps down from her current role in September. (Photo by Mark Schmidt)


ALBANY, N.Y. (July 17, 2017) — State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who is stepping down from her position at the end of August, will be assuming a faculty position as professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy & Leadership.
She will also become a senior fellow at SUNY’s Rockefeller Institute of Government (RIG), where she will create and direct a new think tank, the Center for Education Pipeline Systems Change. And she will serve as UAlbany’s incoming President Havidán Rodríguez’s chief advisor for cradle-to-career partnerships.
“The University at Albany’s commitment to community outreach and engagement is one of its major strengths, and a very important characteristic that attracted me to pursuing the role of president,” Rodríguez said. “Chancellor Zimpher’s leadership of SUNY has lifted the University at Albany’s partnerships within the local community to unprecedented heights, all to benefit not only our students but those in schools throughout the City of Albany and the Capital District. I look forward to continuing this important work together.”
Zimpher is joining a department, Educational Policy & Leadership, known for its cradle-to-career approach to preparing educational leaders, and at a time when it is launching a new M.S. in Higher Education to educate the next generation of college leadership.
“Dr. Zimpher’s primary contributions will be around national and international scholarship regarding higher education, teacher preparation and school improvement,” said Robert Bangert-Drowns, dean of the School of Education.
"Nancy Zimpher is a nationally recognized thought leader on teacher preparation and the public policies that impact the breadth ...

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