2020
FRANK H.
WU
PRESIDENT
QUEENS COLLEGE, CUNY
Frank H. Wu was named president of Queens College, The City University of New York
(CUNY), effective July 2020. Wu previously served as chancellor and dean, and then William
L. Prosser Distinguished Professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law in
San Francisco.
Before joining UC Hastings, he was a member of the faculty at Howard University for a
decade. He served as dean of Wayne State University Law School in his hometown of
Detroit; he has been a visiting professor at University of Michigan; an adjunct professor at
Columbia University; and a Thomas C. Grey Teaching Fellow at Stanford University.
He taught at the Peking University School of Transnational Law, and at Johns Hopkins
University twice. In his leadership roles at Queens College, UC Hastings and Wayne, as well
as on the faculty at Howard, he was the first Asian American to serve in such a capacity.
The American-born son of Chinese immigrants, Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America
Beyond Black and White, which was immediately reprinted in hardcover, and co-author
of “Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment”, and has
written numerous articles in prominent national publications.
Wu received a BA from the Johns Hopkins University and a JD with honors from the
University of Michigan. He completed the Management Development Program of the
Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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