BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger will step down after the end of this academic year, according to a Friday, Oct. 18 post on the university’s online publication BingUNews.
Stenger announced at a Binghamton University Council meeting that day that he will end his tenure after 13 years in the role and has asked SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr. to begin the search for his replacement.
“President Harvey Stenger is a huge part of Binghamton’s success story and its emergence as a world-class university,” the publication quoted King as saying. “His leadership has helped bring the research dollars that have turned the campus and the region into an engine of innovation and raised the profile of the university, massively increasing applications and growing academics, student life, and resources for student success.”
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Stenger began as Binghamton University’s president on Jan. 1, 2012. During his tenure, overall student enrollment increased 28 percent to 18,850 and graduate enrollment jumped 44 percent to 4,140.
The university, under the New Energy New York project, is working to develop a lab-to-market battery economy. It also established the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. A commitment to sustainability, led by Stenger, saw a 40 percent reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions on campus, Binghamton University said.
During Stenger’s tenure, the university has completed more than $600 million in construction and renovation projects, including the Center of Excellence, Smart Energy Building, Koffman Southern Tier Incubator Building, the Pharmaceutical Research and Development Center, the Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences Building, baseball complex and field house, and Charlene and Roger Kramer Welcome Center.
Binghamton University says it is now the second-largest employer in Broome County with a $600 million annual budget and generates a $1.4 billion annual impact on the region.
Prior to his role as president at Binghamton University, Stenger served as dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo and interim provost. Before that, he was a professor at Lehigh University’s Department of Chemical Engineering, co-chaired the department, and served as director of the Lehigh Environmental Studies Center and dean of Lehigh’s Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.
