List of chancellors of Syracuse University: Difference between revisions

This is a list of the chancellors of Syracuse University, a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States.

The title of Syracuse University’s head officer was changed from “Chancellor” to “Chancellor and President” in 1952 during the Tolley administration.^[1]

The following persons have served as chancellor of Syracuse University:^[2]

#	Image	Name	Term start	Term end	Ref.
Chancellors of Syracuse University (1873–1952)
1		Alexander Winchell	February 1873	1874
2		Rev. Erastus O. Haven	September 1874	1880
3		Rev. Charles N. Sims	June 1881	October 1893
4		James Roscoe Day	April 1894	June 14, 1922	[3][4]
5		Charles Wesley Flint	June 1922	1936	[5]
6	–	William Pratt Graham	May 1937	September 1942
7	–	William Pearson Tolley	September 1942	September 1969
Chancellor and Presidents of Syracuse University (1952–present)
8		John E. Corbally	September 1, 1969	March 10, 1971 [a]	[6]
interim	–	Melvin A. Eggers	March 15, 1971	June 4, 1971
9			June 4, 1971	August 19, 1991	[7][8][9]
10	–	Kenneth Shaw	August 20, 1991	July 31, 2004	[9][10]
11		Nancy Cantor	August 1, 2004	December 31, 2013 [b]	[11][12][13]
12		Kent Syverud	January 13, 2014	present	[14][15][16]