Erie Community College, State University of New York

Jack F. Quinn Jr.
Tenth President of SUNY Erie Community College

The Erie Community College Board of Trustees announced that Jack F. Quinn Jr. will be the next president of the college at a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008.

Quinn, 56, will be ECC’s tenth president.

Quinn will also need to be approved by the State University of New York, which had representatives involved in the search. The SUNY Board of Trustees will meet March 11.

If approved by SUNY, he will take office in April 2008.

A 26-member presidential selection committee was formed in spring 2007 after former ECC President William J. Mariani stepped down at the end of 2006. William D. Reuter has served as interim president for the past year.

Quinn was one of four finalists selected from among 59 who applied for the job.

In December 2007, the committee voted to forward Quinn, along with one other finalist, Roger Bates, special assistant to the provost at New Mexico State University, for a second round of interviews in January. However, Bates withdrew his name from consideration after accepting another position.

Quinn also met with the ECC community during visits to all three campuses Jan. 23 and 24.

Quinn has been president of Cassidy & Associates, a government relations firm, in Washington, D.C. since 2005. 

He previously served as a Republican Congressman for the 27th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993-2004. He was also Supervisor of the Town of Hamburg from 1984-1992. Quinn taught English at Orchard Park Middle School from 1973-1983.

Quinn earned a bachelor’s degree in English education from Siena College and a master’s degree in English education from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Quinn is currently director of the compensation and governance committees at Kaiser Aluminum Corporation; director of the Program on Science in the Public Interest at Georgetown University; corporate advisory board member of the So Others May Eat program; director of fundraising of the American Ireland Fund; trustee, AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust and a board director of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation.

He resides in Alexandria, Va. and in Hamburg, NY.

Erie Community College is a comprehensive provider of quality, flexible, affordable and accessible academic training programs, along with related services, that meet the needs of a diverse student body and promote regional economic growth.