The fall semester is underway, and Queens College has turned to a familiar face to lead the campus through its next chapter.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d Hendrey, who spent 33 years at the CUNY school in a series of academic and administrative roles, took over as interim president Aug. 1, succeeding Frank Wu, who retired July 30 after six years at the helm.<\/p>\n
Hendrey graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in economics and earned her master\u2019s and doctorate in economics from Duke University.<\/p>\n
She first joined Queens College as an assistant professor of economics in 1989. Hendrey later served as chair of the Economics Department and dean of social sciences and had several senior administrative posts before becoming provost and senior vice president for academic affairs in 2013, a position she held through 2022.<\/p>\n
She remained at Queens College as a special adviser to Wu through 2025 before serving most recently as interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at CUNY\u2019s Medgar Evers College.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look forward to returning home to this talented and dedicated community,\u201d Hendrey said in a message to Queens College students, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n
CUNY Chancellor F\u00e9lix Matos Rodr\u2019guez said in a letter to the college community that Hendrey\u2019s history with the college made her well-suited to guide it through the transition, calling Queens College an institution \u201cshe knows so well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will launch a national search for QC\u2019s next permanent leader in accordance with the University\u2019s Guidelines for Presidential Searches and the bylaws of the Board of Trustees,\u201d Matos Rodr\u2019guez wrote. \u201cIn the meantime, please join me in welcoming Dr. Hendrey back to Queens College.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fall semester is underway, and Queens College has turned to a familiar face to lead the campus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[130583,2397,67,9,24,63,752,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-349376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-betsy-hendry","tag-cuny","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens-college","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}