Quaintance
LOCH SHELDRAKE – You don’t have to call Jay Quaintance acting
president of SUNY Sullivan any longer.
The SUNY Board of Trustees Wednesday appointed him as president of the
two-year school.
Quaintance said he wants to continue growing enrollment and identifying
the kinds of programs to move the county forward.
He will also look at other opportunities.
“One thing that I have always been interested in is the start of
an early college high school so that we can have a program where students
can complete high school and an associate’s degree simultaneously,
either allowing them allow to transfer or enter the workforce right out
of high school at a very high level,” he said.
College Board Chairwoman Terry Hamlin said the college and county “are
in an unprecedented time of growth and opportunity, and we are not going
to let it pass us by.” She said the school wanted a president “who
could immediately engage in partnerships, both public and private; a president
who could effectively, and with remarkable energy and enthusiasm, represent
us at any table he or she found themselves sitting at.”
Hamlin said Quaintance “met every aspect of our criteria, from being
fiscally astute and politically savvy, to being intelligent, caring, and
likeable.”
Prior to joining SUNY Sullivan, Quaintance was assistant secretary for
education in the Office of Governor Cuomo. He also served as assistant
vice chancellor and assistant provost for community college policy and
planning at the State University of New York.
