Albert J. Simone

{{Short description|American academic}}

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| name = Albert Joseph Simone

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| order = 8th

| title = President of the
Rochester Institute of Technology

| term_start = 1992

| term_end = 2007

| predecessor = M. Richard Rose

| successor = William W. Destler

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|12|16}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts

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| nationality = American

| spouse = Carolie

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| parents = Edward Simone
Mary DiGiovanni

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| alma_mater = Tufts University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| profession = Administrator

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Albert Joseph Simone (born December, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former president of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Hawaiʻi System.

Simone earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics from Tufts in 1957, and his PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962.

He served as dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati from 1972 to 1983.

After the retirement of Fujio Matsuda, Simone was both Chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and President of the University of Hawaiʻi System from 1984 to 1992. As President at Mānoa, Simone lobbied for greater independence from the Hawaiian legislature's control in order to retain accreditation. During his tenure, the university consolidated departments, research institutes and federal cooperative programs from different parts of campus into the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, a leading education and research resource.{{Cite book|title=Who Runs the University?: The Politics of Higher Education in Hawaii, 1985-1992|last=Yount|first=David|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=1996|isbn=9780824818210|location=Honolulu, HI}}

He became president of Rochester Institute of Technology on September 1, 1992, succeeding Thomas R. Plough.{{cite news | date = May 19, 1992 | title = RIT picks its next president | work = Democrat and Chronicle | location = Rochester, New York | page = 1A}}{{cite news | date = August 3, 1994 | title = A leadership shuffle at RIT | work = Democrat and Chronicle | location = Rochester, New York | page = 1B | quote = He had served as acting president of RIT twice—first, when former President M. Richard Rose took a sabbatical to work for the CIA in 1991, and again when Rose retired in 1992.}} His tenure at RIT saw additional PhD programs (in microsystems engineering, computing and information sciences, and color science) inaugurated and improvements made to RIT's athletic program (such as the construction of the Gordon Field House and Activities Center and the elevation of the men's hockey team to Division I).

He retired from Rochester Institute of Technology on July 1, 2007, succeeded by William W. Destler.{{cite news | date = May 18, 2006 | title = Replacing Simone a tall order | work = Democrat and Chronicle | location = Rochester, New York | page = 3B}}

June 15, 2007 was proclaimed Albert J. Simone Day in Rochester and Monroe County.[http://www.thetigerbeat.com/news/?r=june-15-is-albert-j-simone-day-in-monroe-county-ci RIT - University News]

Simone served as a Class C director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from January 2000 to January 2003.