Dr. Matthew Goldstein was unanimously approved on July 22, 1999 as Chancellor of the City University of New York by its Board of Trustees, becoming the first CUNY graduate to lead the nation's largest urban public university. His appointment is effective on September 6, 1999.

Matthew Goldstein has served as President of Adelphi University since June 1998.

From September 1991 to June 1998 he was President of Baruch College/CUNY. Prior to that, he was President of the Research Foundation of The City University of New York from 1982 until 1991.In addition, he was the Acting Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University from December 1990 until September 1991; and before that, he held faculty positions in mathematics and statistics at a number of different universities. He has been a professor of Statistics at Baruch College and a member of the CUNY doctoral faculty since 1978.

He was a member of the Research and Development Subcommittee for the Governor's Conference Committee on Science and Technology and Governor-Elect George Pataki's Higher Education Transition Task Force. In addition, he served on the Advisory Council on Economic Information and Research of the New York State Department of Economic Development, on the New York State Senate Higher Education Committee's Advisory Committee, on the Board of Directors and Research Policy Committee of CORETECH (the Council on Research and Technology), and on the New York City Partnership's Technology Executive Council.

Currently, he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees ofthe Albert Einstein School of Medicine, and of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center; he is a Director of Health-Chem Corporation, and a former Director of Audits and Surveys Worldwide; an ex-officio Trustee of the Jean Cocteau Repertory; a member of the American Council on Education's Commission on Leadership Development, and was recently appointed to the New York State Education Commissioner's Advisory Council on Higher Education.

In October of 1994 he was the recipient of the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and the Golden Key Honor Society.

Dr. Goldstein's research specialty is discrete multivariate analysis, particularly the modeling of cross-classified categorical arrays and discrimination procedures, applying the data analytic procedures to natural, behavioral and social science problems. He is the co-author of three books on statistical theory and methods and author or co-author of numerous published articles in leading journals in applied and mathematicalstatistics.

Dr. Goldstein earned his bachelor's degree from The City College of New York/CUNY, his master's degree from Rutgers University and his doctorate in mathematical statistics from the University of Connecticut.

Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, he was raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He is married to Maggi Sedlis, an architect, and has two sons, Brian and Seth from a previous marriage.