Latin American History Scholar, LIU Dean and Former Citibank Vice President Named Next President of Baruch College
CUNY Appoints Kathleen M. Waldron to Succeed Ned Regan on August 2
BARUCH COLLEGE,
NEW YORK, NY -- Citing her strong experience as a scholar,
executive, and educator, the Board of Trustees of The City
University of New York today appointed Dr. Kathleen
M. Waldron, Dean of the School of Business, Public
Administration and Information Sciences at Long Island University
and former President of Citibank International, to become
President of CUNY’s Baruch College, effective August
2, 2004.
In accepting the Board’s appointment at its evening
session today, Dr. Waldron said, “I’m thrilled
and honored to receive this opportunity and I’d like
to express my gratitude to the CUNY Board, to Chancellor Matthew
Goldstein, and to the enormously generous alumni, faculty,
and students of Baruch College. I was extremely impressed
by all of them as I met them throughout the search process.
Their energy, scholarship and commitment make Baruch the great
institution it is.”
A Fulbright Scholar who received her doctorate in Latin American
history from Indiana University, Dr. Waldron held numerous
senior management positions at Citibank over a 15-year period,
including President of Citibank International in Miami from
1991 through 1996. Dr. Waldron is Dean of the School of Business,
Public Administration and Information Sciences at Long Island
University’s Brooklyn Campus, responsible for academic
quality, curricula, the development of alumni and corporate
relations and student advising.
As President of Baruch College, Dr. Waldron will lead an institution
with 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Baruch, comprising
the Zicklin School of Business, the largest accredited business
school in the nation, as well as the Weissman School of Arts
and Sciences and the School of Public Affairs, is one of the
most selective public colleges in the northeast. It is also
consistently ranked the most diverse college in America by
US News & World Report, with students whose families come
from more than 120 nations and over ninety language groups.
Ned Regan, the former Comptroller of the State of New York
who served as Baruch’s president from 2000 to 2004,
steps down to take a chair as University Professor. Under
Regan’s leadership Baruch students’ test scores
have risen, retention has improved dramatically, and student
services, especially in advising and employment, were significantly
overhauled. The campus opened its award-winning Newman Vertical Campus
complex in 2001, and in 2003 The William and Anita Newman
Library was named by ALA’s academic arm as the best
college library in the nation.
Dr. Waldron comes to Baruch College after serving for six
years as Dean of the School of Business, Public Administration
and Information Sciences at Long Island University’s
Brooklyn Campus, where she had responsibility for a student
body of 1,000 and more than 70 full-time and adjunct faculty.
In her tenure at LIU, she established endowed scholarships
and obtained the first corporate foundation awards in the
school’s history.
Immediately prior to joining Long Island University in 1998,
Dr. Waldron worked at Citibank for fifteen years in senior
management positions. From 1996 to 1998 she was a member of
the policy committee for Citibank's Private Bank, which managed
over $100 billion in assets of clients from over forty countries
and offered a full range of investment, credit and corporate
finance products. She was in charge of Global Strategic Planning
for the Private Bank as the group achieved revenues of $1.4
billion. She also served on a transition team when Citicorp
merged with Travelers Insurance to form Citigroup in 1998.
From 1991 to 1996, Dr. Waldron was President of Citibank International
in Miami, where she managed a $25 million business. From 1988
to 1991, she was director of Citibank’s International
Agencies Division responsible for providing investment and
credit services to large not-for-profit entities in the United
States, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to joining Citibank,
she worked at Chemical Bank in the Argentine area of the Latin
American Division, with responsibility for government and
private sector lending.
Dr. Waldron received her doctorate in Latin American History
from Indiana University in 1977 and a Certificate in Business
from New York University in 1983. Before her banking career,
Dr. Waldron was an assistant professor at Bowdoin College
in Maine and, from 1980 to 1981, a Fulbright Scholar at the
Universidad Católica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.
She has published articles on Latin American finance and Latin
American history and she regularly delivers papers and presentations
at academic and professional meetings. She serves on the board
of Acción International, a large global, nonprofit
microcredit lending organization.
Contact:
Vince Passaro 212-802-2916
Zane Berzins 212-802-2881
