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)