Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges

On July 1, 2010, the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appointed Eduardo J. Marti as the first Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges. An experienced educator who has led several community colleges with distinction for more than 25 years, Dr. Martí came to CUNY in 2000 as President of Queensborough Community College. Prior to that, he served for six years as President of Corning Community College of the State University of New York (SUNY), and for eight years, as President of SUNY’s Tompkins Cortland Community College. Dr. Martí also served as Executive Dean of Tunxis Community College (Campus CEO, CAO) and Acting President of Middlesex Community College, both located in Connecticut.

An advocate for community college education, high standards and traditional values of education, Dr. Martí serves on the Board of Trustees of Teachers College at Columbia University, as well as the Community College Research Center Advisory Board of Teachers College at Columbia University.  Additionally, he serves as Chair of the Board for the Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System (HETS), a member of the Board of Governors of the Council for Aid to Education, and of The College Board’s Advisory Board on Community Colleges.    Having previously served on the Board of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), he was elected once again in March 2009. He was elected as a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in October, 2010.

His terms on the Boards of Excelsior College and The California Community College Collaborative at the University of California, Riverside (C4) expired.  He has served as past President of the Association of Presidents of Public Community Colleges of the State of New York, a member of the ACE Commission on International Education, on the Board of the Cornell Institute for Community College Development, Chair of the Small and Rural Commission of the American Association of Community Colleges, member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Community College President’s Academy, member of the Commission on Secondary Education of the Middle States Association.

In November, 2006, Dr. Marti had the distinction of being asked by the transition team for New York Governor-elect Elliot Spitzer to serve on an Education Policy Advisory Committee.  In May 2007, he was appointed by Governor Spitzer to the New York State Commission on Higher Education.  In that capacity, he chaired the Workforce & Economic Development Committee of the Commission.

Active too, within each community of which he was part, Dr. Martí has held positions as President of the United Way of Tompkins County, member of the Private Industry Council of Steuben, Schuyler and Chemung Counties, and honorary member of the Ithaca and Corning Rotary Clubs.  Also, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Queens Chamber of Commerce and of the Board of Directors of the Queens Symphony Orchestra.

Three times a graduate of New York University, Dr. Martí holds the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees in biology from the institution.  He is the recipient of the Founders Day Award from New York University and was chosen as the recipient of the New York University Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in November 2007.   In October 2008, the New York Post honored Dr. Marti with their Liberty Medal Award as a champion of human rights.  He was previously named to the Honor Roll of the Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.

As the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad award, he spent June 2004 traveling in China with leaders of minority serving institutions.