| Sustainable Long Island Adds Four to Board |
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| Written by Fred Scaglione |
| Monday, 08 March 2010 15:34 |
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Sustainable Long Island has announced the recent addition of Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, Dr. Miriam K. Deitsch, Pat Edwards, and Ron Shiffman to its Board of Directors. Dr. Butts is president of SUNY College at Old Westbury and senior pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. His many successes in reinvigorating what is among the most diverse public colleges in America include achieving 35 percent growth in enrollment while increasing admission selectivity, adding full-time faculty and new degree programs, and establishing a nationally recognized student engagement program through which Old Westbury marries social improvements with academics. Dr. Butts’ work at Old Westbury reflects his career-long focus on improving civil rights, education, social justice and economic development throughout New York State and the nation. Included among the array of social, community and business development leadership boards on which he currently serves are the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, the Long Island Association, and the Abyssinian Development Corporation
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Earning her Ph.D. from New York University, she has served the campus for the last thirty years, currently as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and as Director of the Center for Social Science Research, which Dr. Deitsch founded in 2004, and previously as the Chair of the Department of College Studies/Pathways and the Undeclared Major Program. In addition, Dr. Deitsch performs service on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, where she received the Volunteer of the Year Award in 2000, and in 2007 was awarded their highest honor, the James W. Dowling Award, for stimulating public support to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular disease and stroke. Notable also are her twenty- five years of service on the Advisory Board of the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center, her contributions as the longest tenured member of the Advisory Board of the Veterinary Science Technology program at Suffolk Community College, and her appointment to Co-Chair of the Community Outreach Committee of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center of SUNY Stony Brook.
Ron Shiffman is a city planner with 47 years of experience providing program and organizational development assistance to community-based groups in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. In 1964, Ron Shiffman co-founded the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development – the nation’s largest, public interest architectural, planning and community development office in the country. He served on the New York City Planning Commission from 1990-1996. Today he is a full time faculty member at the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, where has also chaired the Department of City and Regional Planning from 1991 to 1999.
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