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Hofstra Appoints New Deans for Frank G. Zarb School of Business and School of Communication
Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz announced Dr. Socci’s appointment on February 22. “Dr. Socci brings a unique and valuable combination of scholarly achievement, business expertise and educational administration background to the position of dean,” said President Rabinowitz. “His experiences and strengths will help position the Zarb School of Business for future growth and continued success.”
“I am excited and honored to be a part of the vibrant and active academic community at Hofstra University, certainly one of the leading universities in the Northeast and growing in prestige every day,” said Dr. Socci.
Dr. Socci has spent his career toggling seamlessly between academia and the corporate world. He has been at Fordham University since 2002 and currently serves as associate dean of the College of Business Administration. Earlier in his career, he taught on the undergraduate and graduate levels at Baruch College in Manhattan, the City University of New York’s fl agship business school.
In between, Dr. Socci spent 11 years as vice president of network operations for AT&T and Teleport Communications Group, and also served as senior vice president of engineering at ADC Telecommunications in New Jersey, a leading provider of network infrastructure services. He has also worked in the fi nancial services industry – as a systems manager at Citibank and vice president of management information systems for Merrill Lynch Hubbard.
The current Zarb School dean, Salvatore Sodano ’77, ’83, will continue his service to Hofstra in his new role as senior executive adviser to the president for corporate relations.
The appointment of Evan Cornog came two days after the announcement of Dr. Socci’s. “Dr. Cornog is an accomplished academic leader and a working journalist who continues to write for a wide range of publications with national and international reach,” President Rabinowitz said.
Dr. Cornog has served as an associate dean at Columbia University School of Journalism for more than a decade, and handled a variety of responsibilities during his tenure there. He led fund-raising efforts, coordinated the development of a new curriculum, directed the school’s new Master of Arts Program in Journalism and served as publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review.
“Hofstra’s size, its location, its existing faculty and programs, and its current leadership offer the chance to play a major role in shaping the debate over the proper and practical role of communications in our digital republic,” Dr. Cornog said. “I welcome the chance to help lead that effort.” Dr. Cornog is the author of several books on politics and press – expertise he honed as press secretary to New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch and as a freelance writer and editor whose stories have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Slate and The Boston Globe.
Dr. Cliff Jernigan, the interim dean, will continue at the School of Communications as an associate dean.
