Bulletin News
03/18/2010
Gov. David Paterson appointed educator and former mayor Bruce R. Tytler M ’88, CAS ’05, of Cortland, N.Y., to the SUNY Cortland College Council on Jan. 12. He replaces Kim Potter Ireland ’97 and will serve through June 30, 2015.
The 10-member College Council has certain supervisory responsibilities at SUNY Cortland which include: recommending candidates for appointment as president of the College; reviewing major plans for operation of the College properties; reviewing proposed budgets requests; fostering the development of advisory citizens' committees; naming buildings and grounds; and making or approving regulations governing the conduct and behavior of students.
The principal of Whitney Point (N.Y.) High School since August 2008, Tytler has been an educator for nearly three decades.
A native of Oxford, N.Y., Tytler earned a bachelor’s degree in history from SUNY Potsdam in 1980. He received both a Master of Science in Education in 1988 and a certificate of advanced study in 2005 from SUNY Cortland.
Tytler began his career as a social studies teacher in the Houston (Texas) Independent School District from 1982-85 and at DeRuyter Central School from 1985-88. He taught social studies in the Homer (N.Y.) Central School District from 1988 until 2008, serving as Social Studies Department chair from 1992-96 and from 2005-08.
As a City of Cortland alderman between 1996-99, Tytler was a catalyst in the creation of a number of local initiatives, including the Great Cortland Pumpkinfest, the skateboard park and the City of Cortland Web site. Tytler served as Cortland’s mayor in 2000 and 2001. He concurrently served on the board of directors for the Cortland County Business Development Corporation/Industrial Development Agency.
Tytler served on the board of directors for Communities That Care and for Loaves and Fishes. He was an assistant varsity basketball coach at SUNY Cortland for the 1990-91 season and a former volunteer basketball and softball coach for the Cortland Youth Bureau.
He and his wife, Carol, have two children, Rachel, who lives in Troy, N.Y., and Sarah, who is serving on the Pacific island of Tonga as a Peace Corps volunteer.