On this week’s episode of the Touro Law Review Podcast, Patricia Salkin, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs for Touro University and Provost of the Graduate and Professional Divisions in New York, talks with Associate Dean Rodger D. Citron about lawyers as leaders in higher education. Provost Salkin is an expert on the subject, having completed her dissertation on the subject while serving as a senior administrator at Touro.
The conversation begins with Provost Salkin setting the stage for lawyers increasingly serving as presidents of colleges and universities. Among other things, lawyers possess the set of skills necessary to navigate the complex landscape of higher education – one that is substantially regulated and includes litigation risks. Provost Salkin then discusses the data she compiled and conclusions she reached in her dissertation. Perhaps the most important aspect of her work is that she has gathered and analyzed a comprehensive data set, one that will be invaluable to future research in this area.
Brought to you by the Touro Law Review.
Our guest today is Provost Patricia E. Salkin.
Provost Patricia E. Salkin
Patricia Salkin is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs for Touro University and Provost of the Graduate and Professional Divisions in New York. Dr. Salkin is the former dean of the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Touro Law Center and she teaches land use law. Prior to joining Touro, Salkin was the Raymond & Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School where she also served as Director of the Government Law Center and as an Associate Dean. A nationally noted scholar on land use law and government ethics, Salkin recently completed her PhD in Creativity at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her forthcoming book, “May it Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education,” is based on her dissertation and will be published this fall.