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Claudia Schrader Appointed as the Eighth President of York College in New York

After four months of service as interim president, Claudia Schrader has been officially named the eighth president of York College in Queens, New York.

York College, a campus within the City University of New York System, enrolls nearly 6,000 undergraduate students and about 250 graduate students. Women are 40 percent of the undergraduate population.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Schrader has held key academic and administrative roles within the CUNY System. Prior to her interim appointment, she served as the first Black president of Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. Earlier, she was provost and senior vice president for academic and student success at Bronx Community College; associate provost at William Paterson University in New Jersey; and associate provost at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, where she also held a tenured appointment as a professor of education.

Dr. Schrader has a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate in education all from Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City.

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