Susan Poser

Susan Poser (born September 7, 1963) is the current and first female president of Hofstra University, having succeeded retiring president Stuart Rabinowitz on August 1, 2021. Before being named to the Hofstra post, she was chief operating officer, provost, and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Early life Susan Poser was born to Norman Stanley Poser (born May 28, 1928, in Hampstead, London, England) and Miriam Poser (née Kugelman; born October 17, 1930, in Moers, Germany) on September 7, 1963, in Washington, D.C. Her father Norman had immigrated to the United States from Genoa, Italy in 1939, and would go on to be an attorney for the Security and Exchange Commission, executive vice president of the American Stock Exchange, and a professor at Brooklyn Law School. Her mother Miriam had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1936 to escape anti-Semitic persecution. Poser attended Columbia Prep until 8th grade, when she went to high school at Fieldston. She also spent her early summers attending the Interlochen National Music Camp, where she would eventually also work. Education Poser graduated from Swarthmore College in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Ancient Greek and political science. Poser held teaching positions at both Anatolia College and Armstrong Preparatory School as an English teacher from 1985 to 1986 and 1986 to 1987, respectively. After receiving her J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1991, Poser clerked for Dolores Sloviter, Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Poser served as a Zicklin Fellow in Ethics of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received a P.h.D from UC Berkeley in 2000.