Faculty/Staff Detail
Henry Steck
Henry Steck is a Distinguished Service Professor at SUNY Cortland. He has been a member of the SUNY Cortland faculty since 1963. Dr. Steck has received several awards (e.g., student award as Faculty Member of the Year, 1994-1995, Award on Research and External Funding, 2003).
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University
Teaching
Courses taught: Foundations of Democracy, Comparative Politics: Europe, and the Model European Union.
Publications
Book: Co-author, Our Ecological Crisis: Its Biological, Economic and Political Dimensions
(Macmillan, 1974)
Selections in books: “SUNY in the 1990s: Politics, Budgets & the Democracy of Excellence” in Governing New York State, 5th ed. J. Stonecash, ed. SUNY Press, 2006; Co-author “Take Back the University” with Michael Zwieg in Geoffrey White (ed.), Campus, Inc. (Prometheus Books, 2000); "Contested Paradigms of Higher Education Policy" in The University in a Liberal State. Avebury Press (London, 1996).
Service
Henry has previously been Chair (1970-1971) and Acting Chair of the Department of Political Science, for several terms. He has served on numerous committees, especially those dealing with longrange strategic planning and with international education, e.g., Long Range and Strategic Planning. Henry has also served on a wide variety of search committees (e.g., President of the College, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Vice-President for Institutional Advancement, Dean of the School of Education, among others.) Dr. Steck has served on several committees (Governance, Research) of the Faculty Senate of the State University of New York.