page_title: Bill Greiner
section_title: Memberships
hierarchical_section_title: Bill Greiner / Memberships
caption_attribution_description: English: Bill Greiner Speaking to Students at UB Homecoming Football Game vs. Hofstra, October 1992
context_page_description: William R. "Bill" Greiner was President of the University at Buffalo in the State University of New York system from 1991 to 2004, where he worked for 42 years. Prior to becoming President, Greiner served in other capacities in the University at Buffalo Law School, and in UB's administration. He was educated at both Yale University and Wesleyan University, earning degrees in economics and law, including a doctorate in law from Yale. Under Greiner's leadership, research, educational, sports, arts, and student living complexes were constructed. Greiner co-wrote two books. He retired from UB in 2009, and died shortly thereafter due to heart surgery complications.
context_section_description: Greiner was a member of professional associations and organizations throughout his career. As a member of the Council on Competitiveness and the Business-Higher Education Forum, Greiner participated in the New York State Senate Higher Education Advisory Committee and the SUNY Chancellor's Advisory Council on State Needs. He represented UB in the Association of American Universities. He was a member of the Western New York Health Sciences Consortium and the Western New York Consortium of Higher Education.
  Greiner had professional involvements outside of UB. He was admitted to the Bar in New York and Connecticut. He chaired the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council; and he was a member of the Erie County Bar Association, the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts, and the Buffalo Council on World Affairs.  He was also a board member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Studio Arena Theatre, the Greater Buffalo Partnership, and the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County.
  Greiner was a board member of Leadership Buffalo and the Greater Buffalo Development Foundation. He also held memberships with the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise Council and Success by Six. In the area of healthcare, he was a board member of Kaleida Health in the Buffalo area. Both the Buffalo Mayor and Buffalo Common Council, as well as the Town of Amherst Board of Supervisors and the Erie County Executive have consulted with Greiner on issues related to municipal government. Greiner was named to a committee at Erie Community College by former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra to make appointment recommendations to the college's board of trustees.
  Greiner was a member of the Thursday Club of the Buffalo area. The Thursday Club is an exclusively male club of about 60 notable men, mostly educators and attorneys. The Club has been in existence for more than 130 years, and was originally established as a type of literary club that included notable men. In 1998, the Thursday Club held a dinner meeting at UB, prompting a woman to write a letter to Greiner and other SUNY administrators regarding the possible violation of a private club that discriminates against women holding a meeting at a state-run institution. The Buffalo News quoted the letter, stating, "I do not know if it is a violation of state law or university policy to use university facilities to support the activities of a private club that discriminates against women, but it strikes me, at the very least, as a wildly inappropriate violation of judgment and good taste."
caption: Bill Greiner Speaking to Students at UB Homecoming Football Game vs. Hofstra, October 1992
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