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Joseph Hankin's ResumeDR. JOSEPH N. HANKIN A Brief Resume Joseph N. Hankin was born and educated in New York. After attending New York City public elementary and secondary schools, he enrolled at the City College of New York where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences, and at Columbia University's Graduate Faculties and Teachers College, where, respectively, he earned Master of Arts and Doctor of Education degrees in History and in the Administration of Higher Education. Formal writings in these programs included a Master's thesis entitled, "The Progressive Party of 1924 in New York," and a doctoral dissertation entitled, "Selected Urban Problems and the Public Community College." He also holds honorary doctorates, Honoris Causa, from Mercy College, the College of New Rochelle, Manhattan College and Lehman College-City University of New York. Dr. Hankin taught at the collegiate level at the City University of New York from 1962 to 1965, and as an occasional lecturer, and then an Adjunct Associate and Full Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1965 to the present. Dr. Hankin began in full-time administration commencing in 1965. Following a one and one-half year period as Director and then Dean of Continuing Education and the summer sessions at Harford Junior College in Bel Air, Maryland, the Board of Trustees requested that, at age 26, Dr. Hankin assume the position of President. He served in that capacity for four and one-half years and then assumed the presidency of Westchester Community College in 1971, which he serves to this day. Among the related professional activities in which Dr. Hankin has engaged are: speaker and panelist for numerous forums, member, chairman, or consultant for accreditation teams in Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico, and consultant to a number of educational institutions in Maryland, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. He has participated actively in several civic and professional organizations, including the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (Vice Chairman), the Junior College Council of the Middle Atlantic States (Treasurer, Vice-President, and President), Eastern Educational Consortium (President), Young Presidents' Organization, and others. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the First Choice Funds, Inc., the ING Funds Trust, Inc., and is certified as a Large Complex Case Program arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association. Dr. Hankin has been awarded several honors over the years including a New York State Regents Scholarship, a Kellogg Fellowship in Community College Administration, honorary election to Chi Sigma Mu and to Phi Delta Kappa, the Distinguished Service Award by the Bel Air (Maryland) Jaycees, the Brotherhood Award by the Westchester Region of the National Council of Christians and Jews, Distinguished Service Awards by both the New York State Association of Two Year Colleges and by the SUNY Faculty Council of Community Colleges, an Honorary D. Litt. by Mercy College, an Honorary D.H.L. by the College of New Rochelle, an Honorary D. Ped. by Manhattan College, and listings in directories such as Who's Who in the East, the Dictionary of International Biography, Who's Who in America, and others. In 1986, he was selected by his peers as one of The Hundred Most Effective College Presidents in the United States, and in 1988 as one of the fifty best community college presidents in the country. He served as President of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools during 1999. At the end of the last Millennium, Dr. Hankin was recognized by Westchester Gannett News as one of the most influential people of the century in Westchester and Putnam counties. His six dozen publications have included consultant's reports, numerous college documents printed and circulated to the public, contributions to a bibliographical work on community colleges, monographs and chapters on collective bargaining, continuing education, and the importance of the first year in college, and articles in the Junior College Journal, other magazines, and several local newspapers on a variety of educational topics. Dr. Hankin and his wife, the Superintendent of Schools in Syosset, New York, have three children and seven grandchildren.
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