Jim Stuckey Resigns As NYU Schack Dean

NEW YORK CITY-Jim Stuckey has resigned as divisional dean of the NYU Schack Institute of Real State, university officials confirm to GlobeSt.com. The announcement, first reported by the Real Deal, said Stuckey submitted his resignation on Friday, September 30 citing health issues.

Rosemary Scanlon, the current director of academic affairs and clinical associate professor of economics, will assume the role of interim divisional dean, a spokesperson for the university’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies tells GlobeSt.com in an e-mail. Former NYU Schack divisional dean Kenneth Patton will serve as a special advisor to the program during this period of transition. However, the university declined to comment further.

Stuckey was appointed as dean in September 2009 after leaving Forest City Ratner Cos. in June 2007, where he led redevelopment efforts for the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. He has also served as president of the New York City Economic Development Corp. under Mayor Edward Koch, where he oversaw more than $15 billion of commercial, industrial, and waterfront development, including MetroTech, Times Square and South Street Seaport projects.

The move comes shortly after Stuckey was appointed to the Haitian Presidential Council chaired by former President Bill Clinton, where he will head post-catastrophe and reconstruction efforts for the earthquake-ravaged country. “As traumatic as it was at the World Trade Center, it is very different than how you go about taking a place like Haiti, where 316,000 people died, where one-third of the government was killed in the earthquake, where 18 of the 19 government ministries were destroyed, virtually every hospital and virtually every school,” Stuckey told GlobeSt.com in an exclusive interview in July. “They are starting from scratch with everything. The way you approach those two situations is obviously very different.”