Stan Altman

Stan Altman has extensive experience in higher education administration. He is campus director of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance for preparing students for careers in the non-profit and leads the partnership between Baruch College and the Rubin Museum of Art. He served as the interim-President of Baruch College in 2009-10 and as Dean of Baruch’s School of Public Affairs from 1999-2005. He has also served as Deputy to the President, SUNY Stony Brook, and Associate Provost for Health Policy, State University of New York. He has held faculty positions at City College, Princeton University, and SUNY Stony Brook. Trained as an engineer, Professor Altman’s early career involved research into the design of parallel computers, computer-based information systems and transportation systems. He was one of an early vanguard of professionals with strong applied mathematics and engineering backgrounds who applied their skills to the delivery of public services and in later years to the study of health systems. He has developed a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving. He holds a doctorate in Systems Science from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, a MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York.