Deans
Dr. Rebecca Cypess, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Mordecai D. Katz and Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean, Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Michael Strauss, Interim Dean Sy Syms School of Business
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Dr. Sara Asher, Dean of Students
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Rabbi Yosef Kalinsky, UTS Dean
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Dr. James Camara, Associate Dean for Strategy and Operations, YU Undergraduate Programs
Bio: After earning his PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University and a postdoctoral year at the University of Illinois, Dr. Camara joined the Chemistry faculty at Yeshiva College in 2011. Since then, he has distinguished himself as a talented academic and administrator with a passion for supporting students and colleagues at Stern College and Yeshiva College. In addition to his dedicated, forward-looking teaching for both majors and nonmajors on the two campuses, he has ably managed budgets, instruments, and labs. His administrative accomplishments include distinguished tenures as Director of Pre-Health Advising at Yeshiva College and as Co-Chair of the undergraduate-wide Academic Integrity Committee, in which capacities he has successfully advanced our students’ success and our colleges’ shared mission. He has also served on numerous cross-campus committees, building strong, collaborative relationships with faculty, staff, and students and a keen understanding of university operations. In all this work, Dr. Camara has exhibited not only effectiveness and efficiency, but also sensitivity and empathy.
In his new role as Associate Dean for Strategy and Operations, Dr. Camara will apply his creativity, collaborative leadership style, data-driven decision making, technological proficiency, and empathetic understanding of the student and faculty experiences to help drive improvements that bolster student success and institutional excellence.
Dr. Marnin Young, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva College
Bio: Dr. Marnin Young will assume the position of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs this summer. Dr. Young has served on the Art History faculty at Stern College since 2008 and has been Chair of Art History since 2018. An accomplished scholar of Impressionism with an extensive record of peer-reviewed books, articles, and chapters, as well as exhibition catalogues for major museums, Dr. Young has also received competitive grants including a Fulbright and a Getty Research Support Grant, and he is currently at work on a book manuscript on Georges Seurat. At Yeshiva University, he has been a recipient of numerous awards, including the Lillian F. and William M. Silber Professor of the Year Award, the Dean Karen Bacon Faculty Award, and the Senior Class Professor of the Year Award. Dr. Young comes to this position with extensive administrative experience, including not only his seven years as department chair but also work on the Stern Honors Committee, the Yeshiva University Museum Exhibition Committee, and the YU Faculty Council.
Shoshana Schechter, Dean of Torah and Spiritual Life, Beren Campus
Bio: Over the past five years, Dean Schechter has enhanced the Jewish environment on campus dramatically through expansion of the faculty, mashgichim/ot (spiritual mentors), extra- and cocurricular events on weekdays and weeknights, and shabbat programming. Dean Schechter directs the Mechina program at Stern College and has developed personal relationships with countless students on the Beren campus, advising them in their growth and development as Torah-oriented Jews and helping them achieve new heights in their learning and Avodat Hashem (service of God).