BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Richard J. Bressler was elected to the board of trustees of New School University. Mr. Bressler is
the senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of Viacom. He formerly was executive vice president of AOL Time Warner and chief executive officer of AOL Time Warner Investments. Mr. Bressler is a member of the New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees and the Columbia University School of the Arts Dean’s Council and serves on the J.P. Morgan Chase national advisory board. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. He graduated summa cum laude from Adelphi College.
Michael J. Johnston was elected to the board of trustees of New School University. Mr. Johnston is
executive vice president of The Capital Group Companies. He also is a director of American Funds Distributors, Inc. and Capital Strategy Research, subsidiaries of the Capital Group. Prior to joining the Capital Group in 1986, he was president of Paine Webber Capital Markets. Mr. Johnston is a trustee and former chair of the board of Claremont Graduate University, a member of the board of visitors for the Center for Politics and Economics at Claremont and a volunteer member of the New Jersey Symphony, the World Presidents’ Organization and Union Theological Seminary. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Kansas.
Stephen Swid was elected to the board of trustees of New School University. Mr. Swid is chairman
and chief executive officer of the performing rights organization SESAC and a director of Bally Total Fitness Corporation. A graduate of Ohio State University, Mr. Swid was a founder and senior partner of Swid Investors, general partner of City Associates, senior investment officer of the Oppenheimer Fund and securities analyst of the Dreyfus Fund. Mr. Swid is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and past director of the EastWest Institute. An active supporter of the arts and education, he is a director of the Municipal Art Society of New York, a trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and a member of the visiting committee on twentieth-century art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sheila C. Johnson was elected to the board of trustees of New School University. Ms. Johnson was co-founder of
Black Entertainment Television and is now an active philanthropist and entrepreneur. She is turning her 200-acre Salamander Farm in Middleburg, Virginia, into a luxury resort, the Salamander Inn & Spa. A gifted violinist, early in her career she was a music teacher at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., authored a music textbook titled
Young Strings in Action and was instrumental in establishing the first national music conservatory in Jordan. Ms. Johnson is a member of the Parsons Board of Governors. She also has been a trustee of Carnegie Hall, and she has supported numerous causes including the Windy Hill Foundation, the United Negro College Fund, and the Piedmont Environmental Council. She holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois.
Richard L. Kauffman was elected to the board of trustees of New School University. Mr. Kauffman is vice
chairman of Morgan Stanley’s institutional securities business as well as co-head of Global Banking at Morgan Stanley. He has been a lecturer in finance and financial accounting at the Yale School of Management and a teaching fellow in foreign policy at Yale College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University, a master’s in international relations from Yale University and a master’s in public and private management from the Yale School of Management. He is chair of the board of governors of The New School, a trustee of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation and a board member of the French-American Foundation. He is the author of two books,
The U.S. and Multilateral Diplomacy and
The U.S. Export-Import Bank: Policy Dilemmas and Choices.
