Suffolk U.'s New President Taps His Sociological Training to Meet Students' Needs

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 29, 2012

James McCarthy, a sociologist turned administrator, will become president of Suffolk University on February 1. He brings to the private university in downtown Boston his four and a half years of experience as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at another sprawling urban campus, the City University of New York's Baruch College. His background as a demographer should prove useful at a time when campuses have fewer college-age students to draw on, particularly in the Northeast.

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