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Manhattanville President Scheduled To Talk At Business Council Series

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Manhattanville College President Dr. Jon Calvert Strauss will be among the speakers at the KeyBank Speaker Series featuring Leaders in Higher Education.

Jon Strauss, President of Manhattanville College, will talk at the KeyBank Speaker Series in Tarrytown on Oct. 8.

Jon Strauss, President of Manhattanville College, will talk at the KeyBank Speaker Series in Tarrytown on Oct. 8.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Manhattanville College

The speakers will deliver their talk at the event on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8 a.m. It will be held at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill Mansion, 81 Highland Ave., Tarrytown and is hosted by The Business Council of Westchester.

Joining Calvert will be Stephen J. Friedman, President of Pace University; Belinda Miles, PhD., President of Westchester Community College ; and Michael Smith, President of Berkeley College.

Dr. Strauss became President of Manhattanville in 2013. He has held senior leadership positions at the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition he served as Vice President and CFO of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and was on the faculty at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Strauss received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Systems and Communications Sciences) from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts.

As part of the event, Dr. Strauss and the other school leaders will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing institutions of higher learning including creating curriculums to properly train the workforce of the future. The discussion will be moderated by Geoff Thompson, managing partner of Thompson & Bender.

Tickets begin at $60 for members. Click here to register.

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