page_title: Presidents of Stony Brook University
hierarchical_section_title: Presidents of Stony Brook University
caption_attribution_description: English: State University of New York (SUNY) announces the opening of a new college State University on Long Island at Oyster Bay in the fall of 1957
context_page_description: The President of Stony Brook University serves as the University’s Chief Executive Officer. Stony Brook’s President, in addition to his or her duties to the University’s many academic programs, also oversees the Stony Brook University Hospital with its five health science programs and 120 community-based service centers. The President additionally plays an integral role in the economic development of Long Island, New York through Stony Brook’s capacity as co-manager of the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
  What will be required is a new attitude toward public higher education, a new state of mind, a new desire to put some real meaning into the motto inscribed in the seal of the State University of New York which says “Let each become all he is capable of being."
  — Henry T. Heald, Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education, Meeting the Increased Demand for Higher Education in New York State: A Report to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and the Board of Regents,
context_section_description: The President of Stony Brook University serves as the University’s Chief Executive Officer. Stony Brook’s President, in addition to his or her duties to the University’s many academic programs, also oversees the Stony Brook University Hospital with its five health science programs and 120 community-based service centers. The President additionally plays an integral role in the economic development of Long Island, New York through Stony Brook’s capacity as co-manager of the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
  What will be required is a new attitude toward public higher education, a new state of mind, a new desire to put some real meaning into the motto inscribed in the seal of the State University of New York which says “Let each become all he is capable of being."
  — Henry T. Heald, Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education, Meeting the Increased Demand for Higher Education in New York State: A Report to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and the Board of Regents, 
  The duties of the President are wide-ranging and the are tied to a broader governance structure of the State University of New York system, including its Chancellor, Board of Trustees, University Faculty Senate and Student Assembly. Furthermore, the President receives oversight and advice from the Stony Brook Council, presently chaired by Kevin S. Law, President and CEO of the Long Island Association.
  The current Interim President is Michael A. Bernstein. On July 1, 2020, Maurie D. McInnis will assume office as the 6th President of Stony Brook, only the second woman in the University’s history appointed to that position.
caption: State University on Long Island, Announcement of a new college of The State University of New York, 1948
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