Joseph S. Murphy

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Joseph Samson Murphy
BornNovember 15, 1933
DiedJanuary 17, 1998(1998-01-17) (aged 64)
Alma mater
Occupation(s)
political scientist and university administrator
EmployerCity University of New York
Known for
TitleChancellor
Awards
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

Joseph Samson Murphy

Queens College, President of Bennington College, and Chancellor of the City University of New York.[2]

Early life and education

Murphy was born in

longshoreman.[5] Murphy graduated from Weequahic High School in 1951.[6]

He attended the

Career

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State of New Jersey and its 185,000 students in 1970, a position he held for one year.[8][4][2]

Murphy next served as the fifth President of 28,000-student

Queens College for six years, beginning in 1971.[8][4][1][2] He was then the seventh President of Bennington College at 43 years of age, a position he held for six years.[8][7][1]

Murphy was Chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 1982 to 1990, when he resigned.[8][9] CUNY at the time was the third-largest university in the United States, with over 180,000 students.[4][10][1] The New York Times described him as being known “for his ability to combine a practical knowledge of politics with an enduring commitment to the poor and the working class.” [8]

After his tenure as chancellor, he taught as University Professor of Political Science at the CUNY

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 1993.[5] He died in a car accident in Ethiopia on January 17, 1998, at the age of 64.[11][3]

The Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, formerly at the CUNY School of Professional Studies now at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, was named after him.[12] It was established in 1984 as a Queens College program offering courses and programs in labor and urban studies.[12] It was re-established as a university-wide institute in 2005.[12]

The Joseph S. Murphy Scholarship is named after him.[13] It is a challenge-grant scholarship of up to $30,000 for undergraduate and graduate students entering the labor studies degree programs at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Preparing Schools for the 1990s: An Essay Collection."
  2. ^ a b c d "Queens College Head". The New York Times. November 24, 1970 – via NYTimes.com.
  3. ^ a b Rohde, David (January 18, 1998). "Educator Joseph Murphy, 64, Former Chancellor of CUNY". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "CUNY Chancellor Murphy to keynote Commencement"
  5. ^ a b c "Monday's Guest".
  6. ^ Distinguished Weequahic Alumni, Weequahic High School Alumni Association. Accessed December 19, 2019. "Joseph Murphy (1951) a former Chancellor of the City University of New York."
  7. ^ a b c d "Joseph Murphy, a man who doesn't stand still". Quadrille Vol 11 n 1 | Academia.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Former Chancellors". cuny.edu.
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    ISBN 9780521644709 – via Google Books. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
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  10. ^ "Reynolds May Go From Cal State to Top Job at CUNY". Los Angeles Times. June 1, 1990.
  11. – via read.dukeupress.edu.
  12. ^ a b c "Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies | CUNY ALR". alrexchange.sps.cuny.edu.
  13. ^ a b "The Joseph S. Murphy Scholarship for Diversity in Labor Program". www.baruch.cuny.edu.