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City Club of Cleveland - Eric D. Fingerhut, Former Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents
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Eric Fingerhut was appointed the seventh chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents on March 14, 2007. He was the first to be appointed by the Governor of the State of Ohio as a member of his cabinet, and was charged with building a system of higher education- from the GED to Ph.D. - designed to prepare all Ohioans for the 21st century and rival the nation in accountability and innovation. In March 2008, then-Chancellor Fingerhut delivered Ohio's 10-year Strategic Plan for Higher Education with an overall goal to raise the educational attainment of the state of Ohio. The plan attempts to:

* make higher education more efficient while expanding low-cost pathways and educational opportunities to students
* reframe the relationship between business and higher education
* and create new jobs and a highly skilled, globally competitive workforce that will ultimately lead the state to economic prosperity.

Previous to his appointment, Chancellor Fingerhut represented Ohio's 25th Senate District and served for eight years on the Finance (Budget) Committee, with six of those years as the ranking Minority Member. From 2005-07, Chancellor Fingerhut joined the Business Administration faculty of Baldwin-Wallace College as the Director of Economic Development Education and Entrepreneurship. He also has also served as a senior lecturer in the Case Western Reserve University Department of Political Science, School of Law, and Weatherhead School of Management.
June 3, 2011