Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger Stepping Down
Harvey Stenger has announced that this will be his final year serving as president of the university.
Stenger on Friday revealed his plans to step down from the leadership role nearly 13 years after he was appointed by the State University of New York board of trustees in November 2011. He started as president the following January.
Stenger plans to remain on as president until a successor has been chosen.
Before coming to Binghamton University, the Skaneateles native served as interim provost of the State University at Buffalo for several months. Prior to that, he was the dean of Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
In a statement, SUNY Chancellor John King Jr. said Stenger "is a huge part of Binghamton's success story and its emergence as a world-class university."
King said Stenger's leadership "helped bring the research dollars that have turned the campus and the region into an engine of innovation and raised the profile of the university."
During Stenger's time as president, Binghamton University has expanded its Health Sciences Campus along Corliss Avenue in Johnson City.
The university also acquired the former Gannett printing plant in the village. That building has been used for a speech clinic and for storage of library materials. The site is to be turned into a federally-funded battery research and development facility.
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