| Biographical
Sketch:
Mr. Anthony F. Grande is the chief administrative
officer of the School of Social Work at Hunter College-CUNY.
He has an MSEd degree in Higher Education Administration
from the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College-CUNY
and an MA in Geography from The Catholic University
of America. Holding the rank of Higher Education Associate
(HEO series), his functional job description is the
executive assistant to the Dean and director of financial
management for the School of Social Work. He is also
an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Geography
of the Hunter College School of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Grande received his B.A. in geography from Hunter
College in 1969. After a period of ac-tive duty as
a member of the New York Army National Guard (NYANG),
he attended The Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C. on a full teaching scholarship and
received an M.A. in Geography in 1973. While finishing
his master's thesis, "An Analysis of the Move-ment
of the Business District of Port Washington, NY,"
he began working for Columbia University Press. As
an associate editor in the Regional Studies Department
of The New Co-lumbia Encyclopedia, he was responsible
for all "geography" and "geographers"
articles. As a member of the NYANG, he achieved the
rank of sergeant and the positions of Platoon Leader
and Operations Assistant in the S-3 section of Battalion
Headquarters of the 106th Infantry where his geographical
background was utilized in the planning of training
exercises.
In 1974 Mr. Grande was selected for a position created
by the Dean of the former Division of Sciences and
Mathematics at Hunter College to manage the then Department
of Geology and Geography. He became a HEO in 1983
when his position was upgraded after the establishment
of the Geography Master of Arts program. Between 1987
and 2004, he coordinated the annual Geography Awareness
Week activities at Hunter College and authored and
edited numerous geography awareness week pamphlets
that were distributed around the college. He was the
advisor to GeoNews, the Geography Department's student-run
newsletter, from 1989-2005. In November 2005 he was
presented with the Anastasia Van Burkalow Distinguished
Service Award in recognition of his years of service
to the Department of Geography.
In March 2005 he was selected to fill the opening
in the Office of the Dean of the School of So-cial
Work as Assistant to Dean and Director of Financial
Management. He is responsible for the day-to-day activities
of the School, including budgeting, scheduling, personnel
actions, students’ problems, record keeping
and being a liaison with other college and university
departments.
Mr. Grande has been an adjunct lecturer at Hunter
College since 1976. He regularly teaches a section
of introductory geography and the Geography of New
York State, a subject in which he has special interest.
He was a co-principal investigator on the New York
State textbook and atlas project, which was supported
by two Hunter College Presidential Incentive and Teaching
Grant awards. Over the years he has done freelance
research for several publishers and has reviewed geography
textbook manuscripts. He is a charter member of the
Hunter College Theta Pi Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon,
the national geography honor society.
Mr. Grande is an active member of the Hunter College
community. He received a Presidential Staff Development
Award while pursuing the MSEd degree in Higher Education
Administration (1997-1999). He is one of the original
members of the Hunter College HEO Forum, a profes-sional
organization of Hunter College administrators of in
the HEO series. Repeatedly, he has been an elected
member of the Forum's Steering Committee, serving
two terms as its Vice-Chair (2001-2003) and two terms
as Chair (2003-05). He was the first HEO from an academic
department to be appointed by the President to sit
on the college's HEO Screening Committee (1998-2000).
He has served on numerous college-wide committees,
including search committees for Provost, Vice President
of Administration, Dean of Diversity, and Associate
Director of Hu-man Resources, the Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee for the Hunter College Middle States Association
Recertification, and the Advisory Committee for the
Reorganization of the School of Arts and Sciences.
Currently, he chairs the Hunter College HEO Labor-Management
Committee.
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