CUNY Board Appoints Dr. Alexandra Logue As Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost
The Board of Trustees of The City University of New York today appointed Dr. Alexandra W. Logue as Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost. She has been serving as Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost since June, 2008. Her appointment was recommended by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, after a national search chaired by Russell Hotzler, President of New York City College of Technology.
Chancellor Goldstein stated: "Dr. Logue is an internationally known behavioral scientist with a wealth of administrative, scholarly and teaching experience. We are fortunate to have the benefit of her skills, talent and commitment to The City University, and I will continue to work closely with her on all of the initiatives and programs in the Office of Academic Affairs."
As Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost, Dr. Logue will oversee policies governing the academic programs of 11senior colleges, six community colleges, the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY School of Law at Queens College, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, the CUNY School of Professional Studies, and more than 100 research centers. With approximately 243,000 students enrolled in some 1,400 degree programs and almost 273,000 continuing and professional education students, CUNY offers learning opportunities at every level, from certificate courses to doctorates in a single integrated university.
Dr. Logue received her A.B. in Psychology in 1974, and her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 1978, both from Harvard University. Her general research area is learning and motivation, with special research interests in choice behavior, self-control, and food aversions and preferences. She has published more than 120 articles and chapters, primarily on quantitative models of choice behavior, and has served on the editorial boards of many prestigious journals.
In 1978, Dr. Logue joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she rose to become Associate Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Chair of the Department of Psychology. In 1995, she joined the City University as Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College. During her six-year tenure five Weissman faculty became CUNY Distinguished Professors and three others received CUNY's New Faculty Research Award. At Baruch she oversaw the receipt of several landmark gifts, significantly increased external funding for faculty research, initiated several new interdisciplinary master's degrees, and instituted an annual conference on teaching and technology that grew to serve the entire CUNY system.
In 2001, Dr. Logue became New York Institute of Technology's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, where she directed NYIT’s New York, global, and online academic programs in teaching, research, and service. She also supervised the libraries, academic computing, research centers, initiatives in teaching and learning with technology, and academic planning. Dr. Logue oversaw the initiation of several new undergraduate and graduate programs, and restructured several units resulting in significant savings and program improvements. She was also the chief liaison with the faculty collective bargaining unit.
Dr. Logue returned to CUNY in 2006 as Special Advisor to the Chancellor, as well as Associate University Provost. Her responsibilities included supervision of the University's performance management process and of system-wide academic affairs projects.
Dr. Logue’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health. She received the American Psychological Association's Hake Award for excellence in bridging basic and applied research, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, The Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The City University of New York is the nation's leading urban public university. Founded in New York City in 1847 as the Free Academy, the University's 23 institutions include 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. The University serves 243,000 degree-credit students and more than 240,000 adult, continuing and professional education students. College Now, the University's academic enrichment program for 32,500 high school students, is offered at CUNY campuses and more than 300 high schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The University offers online baccalaureate degrees through the School of Professional Studies and an individualized baccalaureate through the CUNY Baccalaureate Degree. More than 1 million unique visitors and 2 million page views are served each month by www.cuny.edu, the University's website.
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