Carl T. Hayden '63, Chancellor Emeritus of the New York State Board of Regents, will join the Hamilton faculty for the spring 2006 semester as a lecturer in government.
After graduating from Hamilton, Regent Hayden served in the U.S. Navy from 1963-1967 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Cornell Law School in 1970. He was elected Chancellor of the Board of Regents by his colleagues in 1995, and re-elected in 1998 and again in 2001. Chancellor Hayden stepped down in 2002, when his second term as Regent expired. He was then voted Chancellor Emeritus.
During Chancellor Hayden's tenure, the Board of Regents began to travel the state, meeting three times a year at places other than Albany. Standards were raised for students, for schools, for entry into the teaching profession and for teacher preparation programs. School report cards were instituted and failing schools were reorganized or closed. Tremendous emphasis was placed on closing the performance gap afflicting many poor and minority students and more disabled New Yorkers than ever before found employment and independence. New York's great cultural institutions, including libraries, museums, archives and public broadcasting, were strengthened. Chancellor Hayden left a reinvigorated and markedly more influential Board of Regents.
Chancellor Hayden is one of three voting directors of the New York State Charitable Asset Foundation. He is a director of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and a member of the board of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity. Chancellor Hayden was awarded honorary degrees by Hamilton College (1996), Elmira College (1999), the City University of New York (2002), and Excelsior College (2003).
-- by Laura Trubiano '07
