The State University of New York Board of Trustees has named Marion Terenzio as the next president of SUNY-Cobleskill. The Cobleskill campus, located west of Albany, enrolls about 2,500 undergraduate students. Women make up 52 percent of the student body. Dr. Terenzio will take on her new role as university president on July 1.
For the past decade, Dr. Terenzio has served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. Earlier she served on the faculty of the department of visual and performing arts at The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York.
Dr. Terenzio is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she majored in music. She holds master’s degrees from The Sage Colleges and Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Terenzio earned a Ph.D. in ecological and community psychology from Michigan State University.