Chancellor Recommends Dr. Nancy Kleniewski as President of SUNY Oneonta

Albany – State University of New York Interim Chancellor Dr. John B. Clark today announced that he will recommend to the Board of Trustees that Dr. Nancy Kleniewski be the next permanent president of SUNY Oneonta.

 

Currently, Dr. Kleniewski is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bridgewater State College.  In addition to her experience at Bridgewater State, Dr. Kleniewski has held important academic and administrative positions at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and at SUNY Geneseo.

 

“Dr. Nancy Kleniewski has devoted her professional life to public higher education and has earned promotions of increasing responsibility at three different institutions,” said Interim Chancellor Clark.  “It is a great pleasure to recommend Nancy Kleniewski as the next President of SUNY Oneonta to the Board of Trustees.

 

“The SUNY Oneonta Presidential Search Committee and the SUNY Oneonta College Council worked very hard and effectively and I could not be more pleased with the results of all their hard work.”

 

“We are very excited that Interim Chancellor Clark has recommended Dr. Nancy Kleniewski to the SUNY Board of Trustees to be the next president of SUNY Oneonta,” said SUNY Oneonta College Council Chairman Patrick Brown. “I want to commend the members of the Presidential Search Committee, especially Chairman David Brenner, for the outstanding work they did in recruiting Dr. Kleniewski.”

 

“Dr. Nancy Kleniewski made a terrific impression on the committee and we are very pleased that Interim Chancellor Clark shares our enthusiasm,” said David Brenner, chair of the Presidential Search Committee.

 

“I am honored by the confidence of Interim Chancellor Clark and the members of the Oneonta College Council and the Presidential Search Committee.  SUNY Oneonta is an exceptional college and I look forward to meeting with the SUNY Board of Trustees,” said Dr. Kleniewski.

 

It is anticipated that the SUNY Board of Trustees will take up the chancellor’s recommendation during the June 17 meeting.

 

 

 

Dr. Nancy Kleniewski

As provost and vice president of academic affairs, Dr. Kleniewski administers an annual budget of $35 million and oversees all academic services including libraries, admissions, financial aid, and learning support. She manages nine academic research and outreach centers in a public college of 9,900 students and 675 full-time equivalent faculty and staff.

 

While at Bridgewater State, she coordinated the development of the institution’s strategic plan; initiated a program of service-learning and civic engagement including new courses, new pedagogies; increased faculty collaboration with the Massachusetts Campus Compact; emphasized student engagement in learning through a nationally recognized undergraduate research program; established an Office of Undergraduate Research; increased funding for the Honors Program, and collaborated with Student Affairs to strengthen the Internship Program.

 

Dr. Kleniewski served as dean of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and was a professor of sociology.  She led a unit of 12 departments, three research centers, and a community arts center with an enrollment of 2,900 students and 180 full-time equivalent faculty and staff; and administered a budget of approximately $9 million in a Doctoral Research Intensive institution of 11,000 students. 

 

Her many accomplishments at UMass Lowell include the creation of a new interdisciplinary Department of Regional Economic and Social Development and master’s degree in regional development.

 

Dr. Kleniewski began her professional career at SUNY Geneseo, where she won promotion to associate and then to full professor.  She earned positions of increasing responsibility and complexity and became chair of the Sociology Department, where she increased the number of sociology majors by 40 percent during a two-year time period after a decade of declining enrollments.

 

In addition, she earned the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

 

Dr. Kleniewski has won many awards and grants, has been widely published in books and scholarly journals and held important posts in community and professional organizations.

 

She earned a doctorate and a master’s degree in sociology from Temple University and a Bachelors of Arts in sociology and behavioral sciences from Emmanuel College

 

Dr. Kleniewski will earn a salary of $205,000 per year, the use of a vehicle and a monthly housing allowance of $4,500.

 

About the State University of New York

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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