Reporter Volume 26, No.5 October 6, 1994

 State University of New York Board of Trustees have appointed Thomas
A. Bartlett as the 11th chief executive of the 64-campus university
system.
	Bartlett, recently retired chancellor of the Oregon State
System of Higher Education, will assume his new position effective
Dec. 1, 1994. He comes to SUNY with a distinguished career in
education and an international reputation that includes experience
within New York, Washington, D.C., across the country and overseas. 
	"We are truly fortunate to have a person of great experience,
maturity and unbounded energy to head the State University of New
York," said Frederic V. Salerno, chairman of the SUNY Board of
Trustees. "Dr. Bartlett is a man who enjoys overcoming the challenges
of nature and work, whether that be climbing a mountain for recreation
or redefining the Oregon State System of Higher Education. The
Trustees of SUNY believe that this trait will be evident to all as he
leads us into the next stage of our development to become the foremost
system of higher education in the nation."
	William R. Greiner, president of the University at Buffalo,
noted that "This is a superb appointment for the State University of
New York. Dr. Bartlett is an extraordinarily skilled, experienced
administrative officer with background at a range of universities and
a national and international reputation.
	"The SUNY trustees moved forward well and quickly with the
search. It is a high quality outcome. All of us in SUNY appreciate
their good leadership," Greiner said. "Dr. Bartlett is a good person
for SUNY at an interesting and challenging time in our history."

Bartlett's selection came after a nation wide search that considered
more than 150 potential candidates. The search committee, chaired by
Salerno and including trustees and representatives of all SUNY
constituencies, began its work in March after Chancellor D. Bruce
Johnstone announced he was stepping down for health reasons.
	Since that time, Joseph C. Burke, Provost and Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs, has served as interim chancellor. Salerno has
expressed his gratitude to Burke for guiding SUNY during Johnstone's
illness and since his departure.
	Bartlett will shepherd the largest comprehensive public
university system in the country. SUNY educates approximately 400,000
students on its 64 campuses. Since its creation, SUNY has had 11
chancellors or presidents, four of whom have served in an acting or
interim basis.
	The 64-year-old chancellor served at Oregon from 1989 until
July of this year. Beginning in 1956, his career included service as
president of the American University in Cairo, Colgate University, the
prestigious Association of American Universities and chancellor of the
University of Alabama system. Prior to holding these positions, he
served as Advisor for Political and Security Affairs with the United
States Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
	Bartlett, a native of Salem, Ore., received his undergraduate
education at Williamette University and at Stanford University, where
in 1951 he received his A.B. degree under a Newhouse Foundation
Scholarship, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. As a Rhodes Scholar, he
obtained an M.A. degree in 1953 from Oxford University and his Ph.D.
in 1959 from Stanford University.
	He holds honorary degrees from five institutions in the U.S.
and one from Pusan National University in Korea. He currently serves
as a member of Workforce Quality Council; World Affairs Council;
U.S.-Japan Foundation; Business Higher Education Forum; Council on
Foreign Relations; Alabama Academy of Honor; and Phi Beta Kappa. He is
a director of First Interstate Bank of Oregon, and a trustee of
American University in Cairo.
	Bartlett and his wife, Mary Louise, have three grown sons,
Thomas Glenn, Richard Allen and Paul Hanson, all of whom were born in
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