CCRC Advisory Board Member

President of Queensborough Community College, CUNY

Eduardo J. Martí was appointed President of Queensborough Community College on July 1, 2000.  An experienced educator who has led several community colleges with distinction for more than 25 years, Dr. Martí previously served for six years as President of Corning Community College of the State University of New York (SUNY), and for eight years prior, as President of SUNY’s Tompkins Cortland Community College.  Dr. Martí also served as Executive Dean of Tunxis Community College and Acting President of Middlesex Community College, both located in Connecticut.  

An advocate for community college education, high standards and traditional values of education, Dr. Martí serves on the Board of Teachers College at Columbia University, as well as the Community College Research Center Advisory Board of Columbia University, and on the Excelsior College Board.   At Teachers, he is a member of the Trustees Advisory Board for the Campaign for Educational Equity.  Additionally, he serves on the Board for the Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System (HETS) and the Board of Governors of the Council for Aid to Education.   Recent appointments include The College Board’s Commission on Community Colleges and The California Community College Collaborative at the University of California, Riverside (C4).  He has served as past President of the Association of Presidents of Public Community Colleges of the State of New York, a member of the ACE Commission on International Education, member of the Board of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), on the Board of the Cornell Institute for Community College Development, Chair of the Small and Rural Commission of the American Association of Community Colleges, member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Community College President’s Academy, member of the Commission on Secondary Education of the Middle States Association.  

In November, 2006, Dr. Marti had the distinction of being asked by the transition team for New York Governor-elect Elliot Spitzer to serve on an Education Policy Advisory Committee.  In May 2007, he was appointed by Governor Spitzer to the New York State Commission on Higher Education.  In that capacity, he chairs the Workforce & Economic Development Committee.  

Active too, within each community of which he was part, Dr. Martí has held positions as President of the United Way of Tompkins County, member of the Private Industry Council of Steuben, Schuyler and Chemung Counties, and honorary member of the Ithaca and Corning Rotary Clubs.  He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Queens Chamber of Commerce and past member of the Board of Directors of the Queens Symphony Orchestra.   Dr. Martí serves on the Board of the Queensborough Community College Fund, Inc., QCC’s primary fundraising organization that opens the Bayside campus to the community by sponsoring numerous educational and cultural events and programs.  

Three times a graduate of New York University, Dr. Martí holds the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees in biology from the institution.  He is the recipient of the Founders Day Award from New York University and was chosen as the recipient of the New York University Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in November 2007.   He was previously named to the Honor Roll of the Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.

As the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad award, he spent June 2004 traveling in China with leaders of minority serving institutions.  

Feb. 2008