A snapshot of university presidents who are Jewish

Rise of Jewish university presidents

Among the top 25 universities ranked by U.S. News, 13 are led by Jewish presidents. This trend is even more pronounced in the Ivy League, where 6 out of the 8 Ivy institutions have Jewish presidents, with Yale and Columbia being exceptions.

While researching this, I discovered something I wasn’t aware of. The University of Florida has the largest Jewish student population in the United States. Hillel International even claims that 1 out of every 5 students there is Jewish. I’m unsure how accurate that figure is, but it’s illuminating.

I compiled this list myself. The list is not meant to be comprehensive.

These universities have Jewish presidents or chancellors.

• Christina Paxson (Brown)

• Thomas Rosenbaum (Caltech)

• Marthan Pollack (Cornell)

• Sian Beilock (Dartmouth)

• Gregory L. Fenves (Emory)

• Lawrence Bacow (Harvard)

• Ronald J. Daniels (Johns Hopkins)

• Sally Ann Kornbluth (MIT)

• Linda Mills (New York University)

• Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania)

• Christiopher Eisgruber (Princeton)

• Jonathan Levin (Stanford)

• Howard Gillman (UC Irvine)

• Julio Frenk (UCLA)

• Mariko Silver (Bennington College)

• Hiram Chodosh (Claremont McKenna College)

• Radenka Maric (University of Connecticut)

• Michael S. Roth (Wesleyan)

• Maud Mendel (Williams College)

This article is part of a series on Jewish leaders in America. Executive branch, Congress, state and local government, university presidents, NFL, MLB, NBA, MLS, and WNBA.