Nancy Cantor | |
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2nd Chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark | |
Assumed office 2014 | |
Preceded by | Steven Diner |
11th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University | |
In office 1 August 2004 – 31 December 2013 | |
Preceded by | Kenneth Shaw |
Succeeded by | Kent Syverud |
7th Chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | |
In office 2001–2004 | |
Preceded by | Michael Aiken |
Succeeded by | Richard Herman |
Personal details | |
Born | February 4, 1952 |
Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence College Stanford University |
Profession | Professor, University administrator |
Website | www |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Prototypicality and personality judgments (1978) |
Doctoral advisor | Walter Mischel |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Psychology |
Institutions | |
Nancy Ellen Cantor (born February 4, 1952)[1] is an American academic administrator, the chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark, in Newark, New Jersey, and incoming President of Hunter College. Previously, Cantor was the first woman chancellor at Syracuse University.[2] Prior to that she was the first woman chancellor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] Earlier, she had been provost at the University of Michigan.