14 Facts About Nancy Cantor

Nancy Ellen Cantor was born on February 4,1952 and is an American academic administrator who is currently President of Hunter College.

Nancy Cantor was previously the chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark, in Newark, New Jersey from 2014 to 2024 and the first woman chancellor at both Syracuse University from 2003 to 2014 and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2001 to 2004.

At Stanford, Cantor initiated a program of research on person prototypes with Walter Mischel inspired by the categorization research of Eleanor Rosch and Carolyn Mervis.

Early in her career, Nancy Cantor held teaching positions at the University of Michigan and Princeton University.

Nancy Cantor received criticism for an overall deterioration in the university's academic standing as a research center resulting in a decline in admissions standards, with its acceptance rate climbing from mid-50 to more than 60 percent.

Nancy Cantor headed a major fundraising campaign at Syracuse and was responsible for the development of the university's Scholarship in Action initiative, which emphasized the role of the university as a public good.

In 2006, following segments of racially discriminatory content that aired at the student-run TV station HillTV, Nancy Cantor halted production so that a university panel could review the content in keeping with the university's conduct code.

Nancy Cantor has been a superlative leader, seeing our University to wonderful success and helping us to build on our distinctive greatness and achieve new heights.

On March 4,2019, Nancy Cantor was recorded confronting campus police during a minor traffic accident investigation involving her driver's car and a Rutgers University campus police car.

Nancy Cantor issued an apology for her behavior, after an open records request brought the video to light three months later.

On February 13,2024, Nancy Cantor was appointed as the 14th President of Hunter College, and began her term on August 12,2024.

Nancy Cantor is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nancy Cantor was the 1985 recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions in the area of personality psychology.

Nancy Cantor was granted the 2008 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award.