Albert Joseph Simone (born December, 1935 in Boston, MA) is a former president of

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(RIT) and the University of Hawai'i System. Simone earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics from

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in 1957, and his PhD in economics from

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in 1962. He served as dean of the College of Business Administration at the

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from 1972 to 1983. After the retirement of Fujio Matsuda, Simone was both Chancellor of the

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and President of the

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from 1984 to 1992. As President at Manoa, Simone lobbied for greater independence from the Hawaiian legislature's control in order to retain accreditation. During his tenure, UH Manoa consolidated departments, research institutes and federal cooperative programs from different parts of campus into the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, a leading education and research resource. He became president of RIT on September 1, 1992, succeeding

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. His tenure at RIT saw additional PhD programs (in microsystems engineering, computing and information sciences, and color science) inaugurated and improvements made to RIT's athletic program (such as the construction of the Gordon Field House and Activities Center and the elevation of the men's hockey team to Division I). He retired from RIT July 1, 2007, succeeded by

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. June 15, 2007 was proclaimed Albert J. Simone Day in

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and

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. Simone served as a Class C director of the

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from January 2000 to January 2003.

Author

From 1965 to 1969 Simone authored five books.

References

External links

The Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship
1935 births Living people MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Writers from Boston Presidents of Rochester Institute of Technology Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Cincinnati people Presidents of the University of Hawaii System Leaders of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa {{US-academic-administrator-1930s-stub