Outstanding Leadership in Queens
2007 Honoree of the Queens Federation of Churches
Dr. Marcia V. Keizs
Dr. Marcia V. Keizs, a native of Kingston, Jamaica,
attended the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada (B.A. 1967), and
Teachers College, Columbia University (M.A. 1971 and Ed.D. 1984). She
holds a Certificate in Educational Management from the Harvard Graduate
School of Education (1995). Dr. Keizs has over 30 years of experience
in the CUNY system as both an administrator and a teacher. Most recently
she was the vice president of academic affairs at Bronx Community College/CUNY
for seven years.
Dr. Keizs served on the boards of the National Council
on Black American Affairs (Northeast), Teachers College Alumni Council
and the Association of Black Women in Higher Education. She is the founding
editor of the New York Carib News and published articles in her area of
specialty, Afro American literature. She is currently chair of the board
of the Morris Heights Health Center in the Bronx and a member of the Vestry
of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Hartsdale, where she resides.
Effective February 14, 2005, Dr. Keizs became president
of York College in Jamaica, Queens. York College, a senior college of
the City University of New York (CUNY), offers baccalaureate degrees in
the liberal arts and sciences, business, health, human service and teacher
education professional programs and is the only CUNY senior college offering
majors in gerontology, biotechnology, information systems management and
a BS/MS degree in occupational therapy. The Aviation Institute provides
courses for students interested in aviation careers and education. The
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is located on the York College campus.
Since coming to York College, Dr. Keizs has focused
her efforts on enrollment growth, strengthening academic programs, improving
administrative and academic systems and building external relationships.
York College enrolls nearly 6,000 students in liberal arts, career and
professional programs on its modern 50-acre downtown Jamaica campus which
includes a 6,600 square foot MicroComputer Center, a computer graphics
lab and a computer music studio, as well as a 1,500-seat auditorium, a
150-seat theater, and a 160,000 volume library, which is supplemented
by access to the entire City University library system.
The City University of New York, the nation's largest
urban public university, includes 11 senior colleges, six community colleges,
a graduate school, a law school and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical
Education and serves more than 450,000 degree-credit students and adult
continuing and professional education students.
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