An interview with Dr. Timothy Sams, President, State University of New York College at Old Westbury

This month marks one full year since Dr. Timothy Sams assumed the presidency of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. And what a year it’s been.  Succeeding longtime president Dr. Calvin Butts III, Tim took over smack dab in the middle of the ever-changing COVID pandemic – a unique challenge for any new administrator, though it turns out his particular set of experiences with inclusive innovation and strategic change, and his decades of professional success at well-regarded universities, prepared Tim well.  In today’s conversation, the SUNY Old Westbury president joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss the importance of liberal-arts education and social justice – and the need for creative management of society’s most crucial resource: young, impressionable minds.