Claude Peter Magrath (, born April 23, 1933) is a higher education administrator who has served as provost or president at multiple American universities. Magrath was born on April 23, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York and received political science degrees as an undergraduate at the

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and as a Ph.D. at

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University. He began his teaching and administrative career at

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during 1961–68 and later served as interim

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(where he was provost and held other positions, 1968–72). His first full-time university presidency was at

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(then known as SUNY Binghamton) from 1972–74. He was the eleventh president of the

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, serving from 1974 to 1984. From 1985 to 1991 he was president of the

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. From 1992 to 2005 he was president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Beginning in 2006, he served as senior advisor to the

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. On July 8, 2008, was named interim president of

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. On January 2, 2010, while vacationing in New Zealand, his wife Deborah Howell, an editor for ''

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'', died after being hit by a motorist. On May 20, 2010,

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(SUNY) Chancellor Nancy Zimpher nominated Magrath to return as interim president to Binghamton University. He assumed the office on July 1 after confirmation by the SUNY Board of Trustees.

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* The Journal of the C. Peter Magrath Center in Sibiu, Romania – East-West Cultural Passage

* University of Minnesota Office of the President

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