CB Rank (Person) 457,633

Dr. Shaun L. McKay created an integrated planning model that connected strategic and operational planning, budgeting and resource allocation, and assessment and evaluation, a model that allowed the College to be removed from accreditation warning status from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education when he became President to reaffirmed

accreditation, with a series of commendations at its last reaccreditation Self-Study and visit.

Working with state and local partners, Dr. Shaun L. McKay secured funding of over 200 million dollars for 30 capital projects. Dr. McKay was responsible for Suffolk’s first ever public-private partnership construction with Long Island University serving students of both schools. Shaun McKay established dozens of articulation agreements with partner schools and created over a dozen new academic programs, emphasizing programs preparing students for careers in STEM fields.