Job Description
President
SUNY Brockport
SUNY Brockport, a public, comprehensive institution located in a charming village on the historic Erie Canal, seeks its eighth President. Founded in 1835 as the Brockport Collegiate Institute and later renamed the Brockport State Normal School, SUNY Brockport became an official college in 1942. In 2022, it became a university, and its Carnegie classification is Professions-focused Undergraduate/Graduate-Master's Large/Medium.
SUNY Brockport has experienced remarkable growth over the past three years, with enrollment increasing by 23%. The University's current enrollment is 7,930 (fall 2025), including 6,154 undergraduate students and 1,776 graduate students. It is the only SUNY comprehensive university to offer doctoral degrees (in nursing practice and educational leadership), underscoring its commitment to academic program innovation and expansion.
Reporting to SUNY Chancellor John King, the President serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the campus, maintains a publicly visible role both internally and with the external constituency of the University, oversees a budget of nearly $200 million, and will begin their tenure following a highly successful comprehensive campaign. In late 2025, the University publicly launched its largest and most comprehensive fundraising campaign to date, aiming to raise $40 million by June 30, 2026. With more than $31 million secured in advance of the public launch, the campaign reflects the strong support and confidence of alumni and partners in SUNY Brockport's mission and future.
Enjoying enrollment growth and improved student success measures, and buoyed by the fruits of this successful fundraising campaign, the next President will continue the University's upward trajectory, taking the University's reputation to even greater heights, expanding strategic partnerships, elevating the University's distinctiveness, and fulfilling the promise of the University's strategic plan, Building a Better Brockport.
Bringing financial acumen, a passion for the student experience, and a warm, accessible demeanor, the next President will be both an internal and external champion for students and a strategic partner in the region and beyond.
A terminal degree is required.
This is an exceptional opportunity to take on a thriving institution and build on the successes of the past decade.
All applications, nominations, and inquiries are invited. Applications should include, as separate documents, a CV or resume, and a letter of interest addressing the themes in the leadership profile.
This will be a representational search, with no public announcement of finalist names. Selected individuals outside the search committee who meet with finalists will have signed a non-disclosure agreement.
WittKieffer is assisting SUNY Brockport in this search. For fullest consideration, candidate materials should be received by March 5, 2026. Application materials should be submitted to BrockportPresident@wittkieffer.com
Nominations and expressions of interest can be directed to Melody Rose, Ph.D., Christine Pendleton, and Sarah Seavey at BrockportPresident@wittkieffer.com
SUNY Brockport does not discriminate. SUNY Brockport is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs, and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, or criminal conviction. Employees, students, applicants, or other members of the university community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law, or treated adversely or retaliated against based upon a protected characteristic.
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SUNY Brockport is a selective, nationally recognized and accredited public institution. We are an inclusive learning community that inspires excellence through growth, engagement, and transformation.
Our Mission
SUNY Brockport is an inclusive learning community that inspires excellence through growth, engagement, and transformation.
Our Vision
Building meaningful lives and vibrant communities
Our Values
Excellence • Community • Inclusion
Transformation • Engagement
The Brockport Promise
SUNY Brockport promises to engage our students each day in cultivating their capacity for intellectual, physical, and creative accomplishment.
Community
We are a University engaged with its community. From its main Brockport campus, to the Village of Brockport, Greater Rochester, and beyond, SUNY Brockport seek ways to engage with community partners to strengthen our area and enrich lives.
Diversity
SUNY Brockport is an inclusive learning community that values and celebrates the differences among us. Our Chief Diversity Officer, who is a member of the President’s senior leadership team, leads the effort to conceptualize and cultivate diversity as an institutional priority.
Institutional Accountability
SUNY Brockport ensures institutional effectiveness and accountability through a variety of offices, systems, and relationships. We offer multiple sources of information available to the public that is used to make evidenced-based decisions that support fulfillment of the University Mission and its Strategic Plan.
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