Thomas A. Bartlett

Thomas Alva Bartlett (born August 20, 1930) is an American educator who is most notable for having served as President of several universities and university systems.

Bartlett was born in Salem, Oregon and graduated from Salem High School in 1947.Citation
title=Man in the News; New SUNY Chancellor: Thomas Alva Bartlett
newspaper=The New York Times
date=October 5, 1994
year=1994
month=October
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEED7153DF936A35753C1A962958260
accessdate=20080427 He attended Willamette College for two years, where he joined Beta Theta Pi fraternity, before transferring to Stanford University, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. After graduating in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, he attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a master's degree. In 1959 he was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. While still in graduate school, he was recruited to join the United States Permanent Mission to the United Nations to work on Arab-Israeli relations. From, there, he became the President of the American University in Cairo.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he assumed the Presidency of Colgate University and the Chancellorships of the University of Alabama System and the Oregon State System of Higher Education.cite web
url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/t_bartle.html
title=THOMAS ALVA BARTLETT
accessdate= 2008-04-27
publisher= [http://www.archives.state.al.us Alabama Academy of Honor] He also served as President of the Association of American Universities. He was called out of a brief retirement to head the State University of New York System in 1994, but conflicts with George Pataki appointeesCitation
title=SUNY Trustees and Leader Try to Resolve Differences
newspaper=The New York Times
date=April 27, 1996
year=1996
month=April
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02EEDF1E39F934A15757C0A960958260
accessdate=20080427 on the University's Board of Trustees led to his resignation after just 17 months on the job.Citation
title=SUNY Chancellor Resigns Post After Battling Pataki's Trustees
newspaper=The New York Times
date=May 1, 1996
year=1996
month=May
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E4DA1739F932A35756C0A960958260
accessdate=20080427

After SUNY, he became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the United States-Japan Foundation, leaving after seven years to re-assume the Presidency of the American University in Cairo on an interim basis.

The Thomas A. Bartlett Chair of English at Colgate University named after him.cite web
url=http://www4.colgate.edu/scene/sept2006/endowed.html
title=Endowed professorships at Colgate
year=2006
month=September
work= [http://www4.colgate.edu/scene The Colgate Scene]
accessdate= 2008-04-27
publisher=Colgate University

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NAME=Bartlett, Thomas A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=None
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Chancellor of SUNY
DATE OF BIRTH=1930
PLACE OF BIRTH=Salem, Oregon
DATE OF DEATH=
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