{"id":33156,"date":"2019-06-29T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/president\/?page_id=33156"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:44:12","slug":"about-joel-seligman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/president\/past-presidents\/about-joel-seligman\/","title":{"rendered":"About Joel Seligman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":32826,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"","display_title":"","subtitle":"Joel Seligman became the 10th president of the University of Rochester in July 2005.","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"right_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":33166,"hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"","css_class":"mt-0 pt-0","title":"","content":"As president and CEO, he directed a strategic planning process to chart the University\u2019s future and successfully led the largest comprehensive capital campaign in the University\u2019s history. One of the nation\u2019s leading experts on securities law, Seligman is currently the University Professor of Political Science and Business.\r\n\r\nJoel Seligman marked several notable milestones during his term as president and CEO, including the openings of the Robert B. Goergen Hall for Biomedical Engineering and Optics, the James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, the Ambulatory Surgery Center, and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience. The renovated Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre and a new wing at the Eastman School of Music significantly expanded educational and performance spaces. The Saunders Research Building provides state-of-the-art space to scientists seeking treatments and cures for neurological disorders, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. In 2012, the new Dennis O\u2019Brien Hall completed Thomas H. Jackson Court.\u00a0In 2013, Raymond F. LeChase Hall, home to the Warner School of Education, and the Ronald Rettner Hall for Media Arts and Innovation opened. The Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital, the largest construction project in the University\u2019s history, opened in 2015.\u00a0The new Humanities Center opened in 2016. Wegmans Hall, which houses the Goergen Institute for Data Science, and Frederick Douglass Commons, with renovated dining and student spaces, opened in 2017. Also in 2017, the University opened Genesee Hall, a residence hall that includes the Boehning Varsity House and Big \u201cR\u201d Atrium, additions to the Brian F. Prince Athletic Complex.\r\n\r\nUnder Seligman\u2019s leadership, in 2011 the University launched\u00a0<em>The Meliora Challenge: The Campaign for the University of Rochester<\/em>, with the goal of raising $1.2 billion by June 2016. <em>The Meliora Challenge<\/em>\u00a0was the largest comprehensive capital campaign in the University\u2019s history and the first comprehensive campaign since 1924. The campaign achieved historic results, raising $1.373 billion.\r\n\r\nSeligman worked closely with government and neighborhood leaders on a variety of community enrichment projects and programs, including completing two major redevelopment initiatives that helped revitalize different areas adjacent to the University. Brooks Landing is a hotel, retail, and student residential development joined to the University by a footbridge over the Genesee River. The student apartments in Brooks Landing house 570 undergraduate students. College Town, dedicated in October 2014, is a $100 million shopping, dining, business, and residential district in the Mt. Hope neighborhood in the city of Rochester, near the University\u2019s River Campus and its Medical Center.\r\n\r\nFrom 2011 to 2016, he served with Wegmans Chairman Danny Wegman as cochair of the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council.\r\n\r\nSeligman came to Rochester from the Washington University School of Law, where he was dean and Ethan A. H. Shepley University Professor from 1999 to 2005. He had previously been dean and Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, and had served on the law faculties at Michigan, George Washington, and Northeastern.\r\n\r\nHe is one of the nation\u2019s leading experts on securities law. He coauthored, with the late Louis Loss and with Troy Paredes, the 11-volume\u00a0<em>Securities Regulation<\/em>, the leading treatise in the field, and is author of\u00a0<em>The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance<\/em>. He also is the author or coauthor of 20 books and more than 40 articles on legal issues related to securities and corporations. 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