Albert J. Simone

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Dr. Albert Joseph Simone is the current president of the Rochester Institute of Technology. He became president of RIT on September 1, 1992, succeeding M. Richard Rose. Simone was previously president of the University of Hawaii System and chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His tenure saw additional PhD programs (in microsystems engineering, computing and information sciences, and color science) inaugurated, and improvements to RIT's athletic program such as the construction of the Gordon Field House and Activities Center or the addition of a Division I men's hockey team. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Tufts University, and a Ph.D in economics from MIT. Simone was born in Boston, in December of 1935. On May 16th, 2006 he announced to the student body at RIT that he would be retiring 1 July 2007, and would be succeeded by William W. Destler.

From 1965 to 1969 Simone authored five books.

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