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| Tim Stookesberry | |
Tim Stookesberry has been named director of SUNY Press. He was formerly senior v-p and general manager at John Wiley & Sons, where he was responsible for the higher education business, including developing and executing plans that helped Wiley transform its digital product portfolio with a variety of e-books, online collections and digital courseware. Before joining Wiley in 2010, he held editorial, marketing and sales positions in higher education at McGraw-Hill and Pearson.
State University of New York Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Tod Laursen said that Stookesberry is charged with "shaping SUNY Press's developing role in the publishing landscape of the 21st century--advancing the commitments made by SUNY and New York State to open access and open educational resources, and leveraging SUNY Press's home in what is the country's largest public university system to support scholars and collaborators from across SUNY and around the world...
"Tim's broad publishing experience--grounded in a respect for scholars and scholarship, and enhanced by strong leadership skills, marketing and business savvy--positions him well to build on existing strengths at SUNY Press and identify new initiatives and strategies for success."
Stookesberry said: "This is a tremendous opportunity that comes at a pivotal moment in publishing and academic presses generally, and also at an exciting time at SUNY--with recent advancements in online learning, micro-credentials, open resources, celebrations of faculty excellence in research and librarianship, even the designation of another SUNY faculty member as a Nobel Prize winner. I am confident that SUNY Press can help shape the future of academic publishing, providing innovative support for all types of scholarship and serving as a model for advancing the priorities of its scholar partners, host System, and state."