FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION
At NYU, you learn how to anticipate and brainstorm innovative solutions to complex, contemporary
problems with the best in the publishing industry. Our faculty members are among the finest in
academia—distinguished and expert practitioners in publishing. They are senior executives at major
corporations, responsible for the daily operations of their companies. Your professors not only
teach what they do, but also what they plan to do. They share an insider’s view and challenge your
critical thinking and decision-making abilities. Their substantive experience heightens your
awareness of emerging issues and helps you to succeed in this dynamic field.
Faculty bring to the classroom their unique experience in book, magazine, and digital
publishing. They administer and deliver rigorous academic programs that use case studies, special
team assignments, and industry-specific projects with real-world relevance and practical
applications. As industry leaders, they provide a top-down management perspective, in addition to a
real-world look at day-to-day operations. You are challenged to address timely issues such as
generating book sales in a turbulent economy, successfully launching a new product, creating an
innovative print and online marketing campaign, expanding into international markets and reaching a
wider audience through social networking strategies.
Your interaction with faculty does not end in the classroom. As innovators with an active role
in the professional community, your professors share their expertise through advisement, mentoring,
conferences, and professional networking. Their experience spans the breadth of publishing—
editorial, product development, circulation, marketing, acquisitions, branding, digital strategies,
accounting, finance, corporate planning, advertising, and legal—with companies such as Simon &
Schuster, John Wiley & Sons, Condé Nast,
BusinessWeek , Random House, The Meredith Corporation, Scholastic Inc., HarperCollins,
Newsweek , and Time Inc.
ADMINISTRATION
Robert S. Lapiner, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
dean, School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Bonnie Blake, B.A., M.A.
coordinating chair, Media Industry Studies and Design;
academic program director and clinical instructor,
graduate program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology
Andrea Chambers, B.A., M.S.
academic program director and clinical assistant professor,
Center for Publishing
Alyssa Léal, B.A., M.A.
associate director, Center for Publishing
