Chancellor Commends Campus Appointment of Jack F. Quinn, Jr. As President of Erie Community College

Albany -- SUNY Interim Chancellor Dr. John B. Clark today commended the Erie Community College Board of Trustees on its appointment of Jack F. Quinn, Jr. as president of the campus. The campus Board unanimously voted to appoint Quinn as president at its January 30 meeting.

The appointment will go before the SUNY Board of Trustees for final confirmation at its March 11, 2008 meeting. The Board of Trustees at the campus also set Quinn’s salary at $185,000 per year. A 26-member presidential selection committee, which was formed in spring 2007, recently recommended Quinn for the post.

“Jack Quinn’s wealth of experience in Washington over the last 15 years promises to bring great perspective and benefit to the Erie Community College campus and surrounding Western New York community,” said Chancellor Clark. “I am most happy to support his presidency and look forward to working more closely with him in this capacity.”

Chancellor Clark also thanked William D. Reuter, for his service as Interim President at ECC since Jan. 1, 2007. Reuter, who had served as the chief administrative and financial officer at ECC, since 1998, will return to this position when Quinn takes office.

Quinn has been president of Cassidy & Associates, a government relations firm, in Washington, D.C. since 2005.  He previously served as a Republican Congressman for the 27th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993-2004.

He was also Supervisor of the Town of Hamburg from 1984-1992. Quinn taught English at Orchard Park Middle School from 1973-1983. Quinn earned a bachelor’s degree in English education from Siena College and a master’s degree in English education from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Quinn is currently director of the compensation and governance committees at Kaiser Aluminum Corporation; director of the Program on Science in the Public Interest at Georgetown University; corporate advisory board member of the So Others May Eat program; director of fundraising of the American Ireland Fund; trustee, AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust and a board director of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation. He resides in Alexandria, Va. and in Hamburg, NY.

Erie Community College is a comprehensive provider of quality, flexible, affordable and accessible academic training programs, along with related services, that meet the needs of a diverse student body and promote regional economic growth.

The State University of New York is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States, educating more than 427,000 students in 7,669 degree and certificate programs on 64 campuses. To learn more about how SUNY creates opportunity, visit www.suny.edu.

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