List of Cornell University Alumni - Education

Education

  • William Bagley (Ph.D. 1900 Psychology and Education) – American educator and editor
  • Henry Bienen (B.S. 1960) – President of Northwestern University, 1995–2009
  • Karen Boroff, Dean of Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University
  • John Casper Branner (B.S. 1882) – President of Stanford University, 1913–15); geologist
  • William W. Destler (Ph.D. 1972 Applied physics) – President of Rochester Institute of Technology, 2007–present
  • Daniel Mark Fogel (B.A. 1969 English, M.F.A 1974 Creative Writing, Ph.D. 1976 English) – President of the University of Vermont, 2002–present
  • Joseph Glover (B.A. 1974 Mathematics) – Provost of the University of Florida 2008–present
  • Emil Q. Javier (Ph.D. 1969) – President of the University of the Philippines, 1993–99
  • David Starr Jordan (M.S. 1872, honorary LL.D. 1886) – Founding President of Stanford University, 1891–1913), President of Indiana University, 1885–91), Smithsonian Institution associate
  • Leslie Jacobs (B.A. 1981) – Founder of Educate Now, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Instrumental in transforming the moribund Orleans Parish School System after Hurricane Katrina
  • Charnvit Kasetsiri (Ph.D. 1972) – President of Thammasat University, 1994–95
  • Steven Knapp (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1981) current President of The George Washington University
  • Henry T. Yang (Ph.D.) – President of University of California, Santa Barbara (1994–)
  • Jay O. Light (B.S.E. 1963) – Dean of Harvard Business School, 2006–2010
  • Tomas Mapua (B.Arch. 1911) – Founder of the Mapúa Institute of Technology and accomplished architect
  • Michael C. McFarland (B.A. 1969 Physics) – President of College of the Holy Cross, 2000–present
  • Lemuel Moss (M.S. 1872) – President of Indiana University (1875–1884)
  • Steven Muller – President of Johns Hopkins University, 1972 to 1990
  • Ernest Fox Nichols (M.S. 1893, Ph.D. 1897) – President of MIT, 1921–22) and Dartmouth, 1909–16), Professor of physics at Colgate, 1892–98), Dartmouth, 1898–1903), Columbia, 1903–09), and Yale
  • Frederick D. Patterson (Ph.D. 1933) – President of what is now Tuskegee University, 1935–53); Founder of the United Negro College Fund; 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
  • Michelle Rhee (B.S. 1992 Government) – founder of and President of The New Teacher Project, appointed Superintendent of Washington, DC Public Schools in 2007.
  • Eugene G. Sander (M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1965 Biology) – President of the University of Arizona, 2011– present
  • Carlos E. Santiago (Ph.D. 1982 Economics) – Chancellor, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  • Kathleen Sullivan (B.A. 1976) – Dean of Stanford Law School (1999–2004), Professor at Harvard Law School (1984–93), Professor at Stanford Law School (2004–present)
  • M. Carey Thomas (B.A. 1877) – Founder and second President of Bryn Mawr College (1894–1922); suffragist
  • George R. Throop (Ph.D. 1905) – Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1927–1944)
  • Randi Weingarten (B.S. 1980 Labor Relations) – President of the United Federation of Teachers
  • Eric W. Weisstein (B.A. 1990 Physics, minor Astronomy) – Encyclopedist, created and maintains MathWorld, ScienceWorld, and other encyclopedias
  • Eliot Wigginton (B.A. 1965) – High school teacher, founder and editor of the Foxfire books
  • Kenneth E. Wing (B.A., M.A., Ph.D) – Former president of the State University of New York at Cobleskill
  • George T. Winston (B.A. 1874 Literature, Professor) – President of University of North Carolina, (1891–1896), the University of Texas (1896–1899), and North Carolina State University (1899–1908)
  • E.T. York (Ph.D. 1955) – President of the University of Florida (1973–1974); Chancellor of the State University System of Florida (1974–1980)

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Famous quotes containing the word education:

    “If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?”
    —Maria Montessori (1870–1952)

    “In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “I prefer to finish my education at a different school.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)