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Robert Iosue

Robert Iosue is president emeritus of York College, where he worked from 1976 to 1991. Before that, he was a professor of math, a dean, and an academic vice president at the C.W. Post College of Long Island University from 1960 to 1976. While president at York, Robert was a presidential appointee to the first Congressional Student Aid Committee from 1986 to 1989.

Robert was a pioneer of college cost containment, writing the first of many articles on the subject in 1974.

Before his academic career, Robert was a lieutenant for the U.S. Marines from 1955 to 1957. He has also served on many profit and non-profit boards. He earned his B.S. from Fitchburg State, his M.A. from Columbia University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from Adelphi University.

He is married and has three children.

Articles by Robert Iosue

Nov 19, 2014 · Robert Iosue

It is possible to control college costs—and I did it

Many college leaders speak as though the upward cost spiral is permanent and unavoidable. From experience, I can say thatâ€™s not true.

Tuition increases at American colleges began in earnest in the 1960s and ’70s, when I was a mathematics professor and later dean at C.W. Post College. The first changes driving the increases were the reductions in teaching loads.