CUNY's Chancellor A Champion of The IAM


Matthew Goldstein Championed the Affiliation with the Italian American Museum

Dr. Matthew Goldstein was appointed Chancellor of the City University of New York, effective September 1, 1999. He is the first CUNY graduate to lead the nation’s most prominent urban public university (City College, Class of 1963).

Dr. Goldstein has served in senior academic and administrative positions for more than twenty years, including as President of Baruch College, President of the Research Foundation, and Acting Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of CUNY. Prior to being named Chancellor, he was President of Adelphi University.

Dr. Goldstein earned his doctorate from the University of Connecticut in mathematical statistics, and a bachelor’s degree in statistics and mathematics from The City College of the City University of New York.

He has held faculty positions in mathematics and statistics at Baruch College, the CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Polytechnic University of New York, Cooper Union, Eastern Connecticut State University, and the University of Connecticut.

He is the co-author of three books: Discrete Discriminant Analysis, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1978; Intermediate Statistical Methods and Applications, published by Prentice Hall in 1983; and Multivariate Analysis, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1984. In addition, he has written many articles for leading scholarly publications in mathematics and statistics.

Currently, Dr. Goldstein is a member of the Board of Trustees of the JP Morgan Funds, the Albert Einstein School of Medicine and of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center; a Director of New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc., National Financial Partners (NFP), the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Inc., and the United Way of New York City. He is a former Director of Audits and Surveys Worldwide and of Health-Chem Corporation.

Dr. Goldstein has served on many boards and committees, including:

· The New York Administrative Committee of Fleet National Bank

· Governor George E. Pataki’s Advisory Committee for the Rivers Institute

· Senator Charles Schumer’s Blue-Ribbon Task Force on NYC Commercial Space

· The New York State Education Commissioner’s Advisory Council on Higher Education

· The American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ Committee on Policies and Purposes.

· The Research And Development Subcommittee for the Governor’s Conference Committee on Science and Technology

· Governor-Elect George E. Pataki’s Higher Education Transition Task Force

· The Advisory Council on Economic Information and Research of the New York State Department of Economic Development

· The New York State Senate Higher Education Committee’s Advisory Committee

· The Board of Directors and Research Policy Committee of the Council on Research and Technology

· The New York City Partnership’s Technology Executive Council

· President of the New York Chapter of the American Statistical Association.



Among his honors are the Jewish National Fund Tree of life Award, the Townsend Harris Medal, the Lower East Side Multicultural Festival 2001 Liberty Award for Distinguished Accomplishments in the Field of Education, the Italo-American Associations’ Leadership in Education and Public Service Award, the 2002 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the 2003 Max Rowe Educational Leadership Award of the American Friends of the Open University of Israel. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and the Golden Key Honor Society, and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.