Not a favorite of mine, Poskanzer treated the New Paltz community like a stepchild.
His comment, in response to community residents expressing a desire to make use of campus facilities, that residents of a prison town wouldn't expect to use the prison facilities, should be engraved on a brass plaque beneath his portrait and hung wherever portraits of past presidents are hung on the campus.
The Times Herald-Record has more details.
Update: The Freeman of Kingston has the story as well.
The ‘elemental thesis’ of ‘Corpse in Armor’
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Seriously, good riddance. He worked tirelessly to expand the divide between town and gown.
Yes, Poskanzer was not exactly interested in the New Paltz community and played the college's autonomy the way a good bureaucratic prick would play it.
But he cultivated the local elites, such as they are.
He was largely a PR man interested in image, which, to be honest about it, is what higher education is mostly about now. Though my hat is always off to serious students in serious fields of study, a rapidly shrinking category at American universities.
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