Jennifer Raab

Jennifer J. Raab is the 13th and current president of Hunter College of the City University of New York holding this position since June 2001. She is responsible for overseeing the functions of CUNY's largest college and its various affiliates such as the Hunter College High School for gifted students.

Education

Raab attended Hunter College High School and went on to receive a B.A. with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University. She received a Master's in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is also a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

Career

Raab worked for several years as a litigator at two of the nation's most prestigious law firms, Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She was also special projects manager for the South Bronx Development Organization and director of public affairs for the New York City Planning Commission. Raab served for seven years as Chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission under mayor Rudolph Giuliani and on the Charter Revision Commission under mayor Michael Bloomberg.

She is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of Princeton University, Board of Directors of Humanity In Action, The After School Corporation, Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York, and a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. Mayor Giuliani appointed her president of Hunter College in 2001 amid controversy and accusations of intimidation of the Board of Trustees. The resistance to her appointment in the CUNY community stemmed from Raab's lack of doctoral degree and fundraising experience. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DB1E3FF933A05752C0A9679C8B63&scp=3&sq=raab+giuliani&st=nyt] Arenson, Karen. "Mayor's Choice Picked to Run Hunter College" New York Times January 30, 2001] The perceived "forcing through" of Raab prompted the Village Voice to declare CUNY "a patronage mill." [ [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0114,barrett,23584,5.html] Barrett, Wayne. "Academic Outrage." Village Voice] ]

Raab has been a resident of Fieldston in the Bronx. [Jackson, Nancy Beth. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE7D91E3CF934A25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22richard+simon%22+riverdale&st=nyt "If You're Thinking of Living In/Fieldston; A Leafy Enclave in the Hills of the Bronx"] , "The New York Times", February 17, 2002. Accessed May 3, 2008. "TODAY, residents include United Nations ambassadors from Benin and Guinea; Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College and former head of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission; and G. Oliver Koppell, the former New York attorney general newly elected to the City Council."]

References and links

* [http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/president/presidentsbio.shtml Biography at the Hunter College website]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E1DA143FF935A15752C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all "Choosing Hunter College President Puts CUNY Trustees in Tug-of-War"] and [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DB1E3FF933A05752C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Mayor's Choice Picked to Run Hunter College, "New York Times"]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0114,barrett,23584,5.html Academic Outrage, "Village Voice"]

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