Phillip Clay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Phillip Clay

American academic

Date of Birth: 17-May-1946

Place of Birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

Profession: urban planner, landscape architect

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United States

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Phillip Clay

  • Phillip L.
  • Clay (born May 17, 1946) is a professor of housing policy and city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • He is the former Chancellor of the Institute.
  • While Chancellor, Professor Clay had oversight responsibility for graduate and undergraduate education at MIT, including cost-cutting decision-making, as well as student life, student services, international initiatives, and the management of certain of MIT’s large-scale institutional partnerships.
  • He was also the highest ranking Black administrator in the Institute's 150-year history.A member of the MIT faculty since 1975, Professor Clay served as Associate Provost in the Office of the Provost from 1994 to 2001.
  • He was the Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1992 to 1994 and its Associate Department Head during 1990 to 1992.
  • From 1980 to 1984, Professor Clay served as the Assistant Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard.
  • He became Chancellor in 2001.It was Clay, in 2007, who investigated claims that MIT's popular admissions dean Marilee Jones had falsified her credentials, when applying for the job.
  • When those claims were verified, Clay asked for her resignation.Clay is known for his work in U.S.
  • housing policy and community-based development.
  • In a 1987 study commissioned by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Clay identified the market and institutional conditions contributing to the erosion of low-income rental housing and documented the need for a national preservation policy.
  • He later served on the national commission that recommended the policy that became part of the Housing Act of 1990. Clay is a founding member of the National Housing Trust that addresses the issue of housing preservation.
  • He is also President of the Board of The Community Builders, Inc., the nation’s largest nonprofit developer of affordable housing.
  • He serves as member and Vice Chair of the MasterCard Foundation board and recently he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • He was appointed to the board of The Kresge Foundation in 2008.Clay is a native of Wilmington North Carolina.
  • He received the AB degree with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968 and his Ph.D.
  • in City Planning in 1975 from MIT.
  • He resides in Boston with his wife, Cassandra.On November 2, 2010, Clay announced he would step down as Chancellor.
  • He was succeeded by Eric Grimson.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also