Samuel L. Stanley

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| name = Samuel L. Stanley

| image = Samuel L. StanleyPortrait2014.jpg

| caption = Stanley in 2014

| office = 21st President of Michigan State University

| term_start = August 1, 2019

| term_end = November 4, 2022

| predecessor = Lou Anna Simon
John Engler (interim)
Satish Udpa (acting)

| successor = Teresa Woodruff (interim)
Kevin Guskiewicz

| office1 = 5th President of Stony Brook University

| term_start1 = July 1, 2009

| term_end1 = July 31, 2019

| predecessor1 = Shirley Strum Kenny

| successor1 = Michael A. Bernstein (interim)
Maurie D. McInnis

| birth_name = Samuel Leonard Stanley Jr.

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|1|11}}

| birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S.

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| fields = Internal medicine

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| education = University of Chicago (BA)
Harvard University (MD)

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Samuel L. Stanley Jr. (born January 11, 1954) is an American educator and biomedical researcher. He was president of Michigan State University from 2019 to November 2022, and president of Stony Brook University from 2009 to 2019.http://www.stonybrook.edu/pres/cv.html=all{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} About the President: Curriculum Vitae.http://www.stonybrook.edu/pres/bio.html={{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} all Stony Brook University: Office of the President: Biography Stanley is one of the founding directors of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.

On October 13, 2022, Stanley announced his resignation as president of Michigan State University, and stepped down on November 4, 2022.{{Cite web |last=Kozlowski |first=Kim |date=2022-10-13 |title=Michigan State University President Samuel Stanley resigns |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/10/13/michigan-state-university-president-samuel-stanley-resigns/69560708007/ |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=The Detroit News |publisher=Gannett |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url= https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/11/02/msus-president-stanley-to-step-down-nov-4/69614180007/ |title= MSU's President Stanley to depart early |publisher=The Detroit News|accessdate=November 4, 2022}}

Early life and education

Samuel L. Stanley Jr. attended Winston Churchill High School, located in Potomac, Maryland, and graduated in 1972. He then attended the University of Chicago, where he graduated with honors in Biological Sciences in 1976 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in the same year.http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/6557.aspx=all Vice-Chancellor of Research at Washington University As an Albert Schweitzer fellow of Harvard Medical School, Stanley received his M.D. specializing in Internal Medicine in 1980.http://hms.harvard.edu/alumni-search?LastName=stanley&FirstName=samuel&GradYear=1980&id=DC0eXHkBaUdudBxhNUR6KDsNMB8jEAJjVSYAcyh-GwF1ZQAb= all HMS- Alumni

Career

He served as a medical intern at Massachusetts General Hospital between 1980 and 1981 and stayed to complete his residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was appointed as an associate member of the American College of Physicians. During his time at Mass General, Stanley met colleague and future wife, Dr. Ellen Li, who was concurrently completing her residency in internal medicine.http://www.stonybrookphysicians.com/doctor/LI_MD_ELLEN_2884.asp= all Stony Brook Physicians- Ellen LI, M.D., PhD

Between 1983 and 1984, Stanley was a fellow in infectious diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.{{Cite web|title=Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr, MD - Infectious Disease Specialist in Stony Brook, NY | Healthgrades|url=https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-samuel-stanley-xmtsj|access-date=2022-10-13|website=www.healthgrades.com}}http://www.stonybrook.edu/pres/lady.html=all About the President: First Lady While there, he was a Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellow in microbiology and immunology. He became a professor in the department of medicine, and served in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Molecular Microbiology. Stanley also served as director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research. In 2006, he was named vice-chancellor for research at Washington University in St. Louis.

=President of Stony Brook University=

On May 12, 2009, Stanley was named the fifth president of Stony Brook University, a position he formally assumed on July 1, 2009, making him the first physician to serve as Stony Brook University's president.{{Cite web|url=https://source.wustl.edu/2009/05/stanley-named-president-of-suny-stony-brook/|title=Stanley named president of SUNY Stony Brook | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis|date=May 6, 2009|website=The Source}}http://www.americaeast.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14000&ATCLID=3737095=all Samuel Stanley Selected New President at Stony Brook University

Stanley's tenure at Stony Brook was marked by enhancing the faculty, boosting minority and low-income student enrollment, raising academic success rates, and increasing research funding and the university's endowment level.{{cite web|title=Students call him 'Super Stanley': Michigan State's new president a soft-spoken leader who listens|date=May 31, 2019 |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/05/students-call-him-super-stanley-michigan-states-new-president-a-soft-spoken-leader-who-listens.html|publisher=MLive|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819183716/https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/05/students-call-him-super-stanley-michigan-states-new-president-a-soft-spoken-leader-who-listens.html|archive-date=August 19, 2019|url-status=live}} Stony Brook University saw its largest donation in school and State University of New York history when mathematician Jim Simons gifted $150 million to the school.{{Cite news|last=Pérez-Peña|first=Richard|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/nyregion/stony-brook-university-given-150-million.html|title=Stony Brook University to Get $150 Million Gift|date=2011-12-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-27|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} In 2012, Stanley and his wife announced the establishment of the Ellen Li and Samuel S. Stanley Jr. Endowed Scholarship in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.{{Cite web|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/president-stanley-dr-li-will-match-class-of-2019-senior-class-legacy-gifts/|title=President Stanley, Dr. Li Pledge to Equal Class of 2019 Senior Class Legacy Gifts {{!}}|date=2018-11-13|website=SBU News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-26}} He also associated the university with the United Nations HeForShe program and committed the university to addressing gender equity issues.{{cite web|title="We Are HeForShe": Stony Brook University Commits to Take Action for Gender Equality|date=June 18, 2015 |url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/2015-06-18-heforshe-release/|publisher=Stoney Brook University|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022030818/https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/2015-06-18-heforshe-release/|archive-date=October 22, 2020|url-status=live}}

Upon Stanley's arrival, Stony Brook faced a $13 million budget deficit which grew to $21 million and led to a hiring freeze in December 2009 and closure of the 81-acre campus in Southampton in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbstatesman.com/samuel-stanley/|title=Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr.: Stony Brook University's Post-Recession President|website=The Statesman|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-27}}{{cite news|title=Facing Cuts, Stony Brook Will Close Programs|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/nyregion/08stonybrook.html|work=The New York Times|date=April 8, 2010 |access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202215548/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/nyregion/08stonybrook.html|archive-date=February 2, 2018|url-status=live|last1=Foderaro |first1=Lisa W. }} Students brought suit to the university over the closure, resulting in a settlement which included a public apology by Stanley and an agreement to maintain an environmental degree program the students were enrolled in.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/stony-brook-southampton-lawsuit-settled-1.3091432|title=SBU prez to apologize for campus closure|website=Newsday|language=en|access-date=2020-03-27}} By 2017, Stony Brook's budget deficit grew to $35 million which led to development of a budget plan which included controversial cuts to the university's humanities funding.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/hundreds-of-sbu-students-protest-potential-liberal-arts-cuts-1.13602371|title=SBU students protest potential liberal arts cuts|website=Newsday|language=en|access-date=2020-03-27}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/sbu-suspends-admissions-into-3-departments-to-close-funding-gap-1.13757367|title=SBU: Admissions suspended to close $1.5M gap|website=Newsday|language=en|access-date=2020-03-27}}{{Cite web|last=Willis|first=Adam|date=2019-08-23|title=Bureaucrats Put the Squeeze on College Newspapers|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/death-college-newspapers/595849/|access-date=2020-06-25|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbstatesman.com/2017/12/03/55-distinguished-professors-voice-concerns-about-sbu-administration/|title=42 distinguished professors voice concerns about SBU administration|last=Liebson|first=Rebecca|date=2017-12-04|website=The Statesman|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-27}}{{cite web|title=President Stanley's plan to address $35 million deficit draws ire of faculty|date=September 14, 2017 |url=https://www.sbstatesman.com/2017/09/13/president-stanleys-plan-to-address-35-million-deficit-draws-ire-of-faculty/|publisher=The Statesman|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024115308/https://www.sbstatesman.com/2017/09/13/president-stanleys-plan-to-address-35-million-deficit-draws-ire-of-faculty/|archive-date=October 24, 2020|url-status=live}}

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanley's salary was $690,040 during the 2014–15 school year and ranked the 25th-highest amongst public university executives in the United States; from 2009 to 2012, the Stony Brook Foundation awarded Stanley $250,000 in addition to his base salary.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbstatesman.com/2016/07/19/stanley-among-highest-paid-public-university-presidents/|title=Stanley among highest paid public university presidents|last=Kilgallen|first=Michaela|date=2016-07-20|website=The Statesman|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-27}}

In January 2015, Stanley began his term on the NCAA Division I board of directors.{{Cite web|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/2015-01-15-president-stanley-appointed-to-ncaa-division-1-board-of-directors/|title=President Stanley Appointed to NCAA Division I Board of Directors {{!}}|date=2015-01-15|website=SBU News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-26}} On July 19, 2016, Stanley was appointed to the NCAA board of governors.{{Cite web|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/president-stanley-appointed-to-highest-governance-body-in-ncaa/|title=President Stanley Appointed to Highest Governance Body in NCAA {{!}}|date=2016-07-19|website=SBU News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-26}} The board adopted a sexual violence policy in 2017 and in 2018 heard recommendations to tie athlete eligibility to behavior, but took no immediate action.{{cite web|title=Board adopts sexual violence policy|date=August 10, 2017 |url=http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/board-adopts-sexual-violence-policy|publisher=NCAA|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118231900/http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/board-adopts-sexual-violence-policy|archive-date=November 18, 2020|url-status=live}} Stanley's term expired in 2018 and in 2020 the board expanded the NCAA's sexual violence policy to require student-athletes to annually disclose any investigations or disciplinary matters in their past.{{cite web|title=NCAA Board of Governors Policy on Campus Sexual Violence|url=http://www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/topics/ncaa-board-governors-policy-campus-sexual-violence|publisher=NCAA|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921171744/http://www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/topics/ncaa-board-governors-policy-campus-sexual-violence|archive-date=September 21, 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=NCAA adjusts sexual violence policy, requires disclosure|date=May 2, 2020 |url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29125704/ncaa-adjusts-sexual-violence-policy-requires-disclosure|publisher=EPSN|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526201902/https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29125704/ncaa-adjusts-sexual-violence-policy-requires-disclosure|archive-date=May 26, 2020|url-status=live}}

= President of Michigan State University =

Stanley was named president of Michigan State University on May 28, 2019,{{Cite web |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2019/05/28/msu-new-president-stony-brook-university-samuel-stanley/1220372001/ |title=MSU names medical doctor, current Stony Brook University president as new president|website=Detroit Free Press|access-date=2019-05-28}} to succeed Lou Anna Simon, who resigned in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, with his tenure officially beginning on August 1.{{Cite web|url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2019/05/28/msu-new-president-stony-brook-university-samuel-stanley/1220372001/|title=MSU names medical doctor, current Stony Brook University president as new president|last=Jesse|first=David|website=Detroit Free Press|language=en|access-date=2020-03-27}}{{Cite web |url=https://msu.edu/presidentialsearch/president/|title=President-designee Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. {{!}} Presidential Search {{!}} Michigan State University|website=msu.edu|access-date=2019-05-31}} On August 29, 2019, two Michigan State students were charged with false terrorism threats after posting a plan to assassinate Stanley on the Michigan State subreddit.{{Cite web|url=https://statenews.com/article/2019/11/msu-student-charged-with-false-terror-threat-to-go-to-trial?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest|title=MSU student charged with false terror threat to go to trial|website=The State News|language=en-us|access-date=2020-03-27}}

The new president said early in his tenure that his top priority was to make Michigan State as safe, respectful and welcoming as it can be.{{cite web|title=Oct. 25, 2019 report to the MSU Board of Trustees|url=https://president.msu.edu/communications/speeches-opeds/2019_speeches/10_25_2019_board_remarks.html|publisher=Michigan State University|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821142235/https://president.msu.edu/communications/speeches-opeds/2019_speeches/10_25_2019_board_remarks.html|archive-date=August 21, 2020|url-status=live}} Meeting with and listening to members of the university community, including conversations with groups of sexual assault survivors, was a focus of his first months at MSU.{{cite web|title=MSU President meets with sexual assault survivors|date=October 4, 2019 |url=https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/msu-president-meets-with-sexual-assault-survivors/|publisher=WLNS|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005142024/https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/msu-president-meets-with-sexual-assault-survivors/|archive-date=October 5, 2019|url-status=live}} Feedback from those survivor sessions was also meant to help develop recommendations to improve the university's handling of sexual assault and formulate a comprehensive plan.{{cite web|title=Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct Plan|url=https://president.msu.edu/initiatives/rvsm-plan/index.html|publisher=Michigan State University|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821135521/https://president.msu.edu/initiatives/rvsm-plan/index.html|archive-date=August 21, 2020|url-status=live}} Late in 2019, Stanley announced two new institutional planning initiatives, one focused on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion and the other a comprehensive university strategic planning process.{{cite web|title=Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan|url=https://president.msu.edu/initiatives/dei-plan/index.html|publisher=Michigan State University|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022201818/https://president.msu.edu/initiatives/dei-plan/index.html|archive-date=October 22, 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=MSU Strategic Plan|url=https://president.msu.edu/initiatives/strategic-plan/index.html|publisher=Michigan State University|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919212032/https://president.msu.edu/initiatives/strategic-plan/index.html|archive-date=September 19, 2020|url-status=live}} He also launched an initiative in late 2019 to investigate development of a campus multicultural center.{{cite web|title=Plans for a new MSU multicultural center could come by December|url=https://president.msu.edu/initiatives/strategic-plan/index.html|publisher=Lansing State Journal|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all}}

Stanley restructured administration of the university's medical, osteopathic and nursing colleges and its clinical services in October 2019 to improve oversight and alignment of health care, education, and research activities.{{cite web|title=Three human health colleges align under new structure|url=https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2019/three-human-health-colleges-align-under-new-structure/|publisher=Michigan State University|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202055306/https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2019/three-human-health-colleges-align-under-new-structure/|archive-date=December 2, 2020|url-status=live}} The university broke ground Nov. 18, 2019 on a $19.5 million, gift-funded medical innovation facility next to MSU's $88.1 million Grand Rapids Research Center and close to its College of Human Medicine in downtown Grand Rapids.{{cite web|title=MSU to leverage public-private partnership for new Grand Rapids facility|date=November 22, 2019 |url=https://mibiz.com/sections/health-care/msu-to-leverage-public-private-partnership-for-new-grand-rapids-facility|publisher=MiBiz|access-date=December 6, 2020|df=mdy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509224021/https://mibiz.com/sections/health-care/msu-to-leverage-public-private-partnership-for-new-grand-rapids-facility|archive-date=May 9, 2020|url-status=live}}

Stanley announced his resignation from Michigan State on October 13, 2022, stating that he no longer had confidence in the university's board of trustees. Some members of the board had been pressing him to retire, based on their criticism of his handling of the case of a dean in the Broad College of Business, who had been made to leave after allegations of sexual misconduct. Stanley's resignation was scheduled to take effect on January 11, 2023, but his last day was November 4, 2022. He was the third MSU president in a row to tender his resignation since January 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/10/13/michigan-state-university-president-samuel-stanley-resigns-loss-of-confidence-board-of-trustees/69560712007|title=Michigan State University president Samuel Stanley resigns, cites loss of confidence in board|website=Lansing State Journal|language=en-us|access-date=2020-10-13}}

=Biomedical research=

Stanley was a biomedical researcher. His research interest in immunity from infections led him to publish several articles about the characterization of key proteins and pathways involved in amebic, bacterial and viral infections, blood-borne pathogen risks in hemophilia therapy, and the identification of new strain- specific clones.https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/12788669_Samuel_Stanley=all ResearchGate Profile: Samuel S. Stanley Better defense against infection was a key focus of his research.

In 2008, he worked to create the Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, with a $37 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The center was established with goals of improving biodefense, in reaction to the post-September 11 bioterrorism threat and anthrax attacks.http://mrce.wustl.edu/index.php?page=about=all About the MRCE He has also served on the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, the NIH Blue Ribbon Panel on the New England Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, the NIH National Advisory Allergy & Infectious Diseases Council and committees led by the United States Department of Commerce.

Stanley is also the recipient of awards, including the Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award in Molecular Parasitology and the Distinguished Service Teaching Award from Washington University.

Stanley is currently the owner of 3 patents. He also serves as an ambassador for the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research and has received an honorary doctorate degree in Science from Konkuk University in South Korea.