Alexandra W. Logue

Dr. Alexandra W. Logue is Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost of the City University of New York (CUNY), a position that she assumed in June 2008.

Dr. Logue is an internationally-known behavioral scientist with administrative and teaching experience in higher education. From 2006 to 2008, she served as Special Advisor to the Chancellor and Associate University Provost of the City University of New York, where her responsibilities included supervising CUNY’s performance management process and system-wide academic affairs projects. From 2001 to 2006, she served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), directing NYIT's New York and global academic programs in teaching, research and service. From 1995 to 2001, Dr. Logue served as Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College/CUNY. In 1978, Dr. Logue joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she rose to become Associate Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Chair of the Department of Psychology.

Dr. Logue received her A.B. in Psychology in 1974, and her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 1978, both from Harvard University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Her general research area is learning and motivation, with special research interests in choice behavior, self-control, and food aversions and preferences. She is a recipient of the Hake Award (from the American Psychological Association), and the Science Book of the Year Award (in Germany) for her book, "Psychology of Eating and Drinking" (Freeman, 1986, 1995; Brunner-Routledge 2004). In addition, she is the author of "Self Control: Waiting Until Tomorrow for What You Want Today" (Prentice Hall, 1995). She has published more than 120 articles and chapters, primarily on quantitative models of choice behavior. Dr. Logue is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.