May 25, 2010 - Superintendent Randy Ehrenberg was recognized as a distinguished alumna of Binghamton University’s Harpur College of Arts and Humanities last week at the University’s undergraduate ceremony. She received this wonderful honor due to a long, distinguished career of public service and community involvement. Mrs. Ehrenberg addressed the graduates, urging them to continue their love of learning throughout the rest of their lives.

“Harpur launched me into a career of public service as an educator,” Mrs. Ehrenberg said.

“I am forever indebted to the institution.”

Mrs. Ehrenberg received her BA in English Literature from Harpur College in 1967, a MAT degree in English Education from Northwestern University and a CAS in Educational Administration from SUNY Cortland.

She spent 17 years as a teacher in Evanston, Ill. (the first northern city to voluntarily bus students to achieve racial integration), Amherst, Mass., and Ithaca, N.Y., teaching in both rural and urban settings, and then 25 years as a school building and district administrator. Mrs. Ehrenberg has spent the last nine years serving as the Superintendent of North Colonie Central Schools.

Mrs. Ehrenberg has published articles on the teaching of English and on budgetary and administrative issues. In 1993, she was selected as New York’s Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators’ Association of New York. She served as chair of the New York State Association for Women in Educational Leadership, and in 2007, received its Pathfinder Award.

In 2010, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the New York State Council of School Superintendents (NYSCOSS). She has given talks for NYSCOSS to aspiring superintendents and practicing superintendents, is an instructor in the NYSCOSS Teaching Academy and has taught in graduate-level classes at SUNY Albany and the College of Saint Rose on Educational Administration. She also served on the faculty of the Superintendents’ Development Program (SUNY/Oswego) and given talks for the NYS School Boards Association.

“When I entered Harpur as a sixteen year old freshman, I was unformed,” Mrs. Ehrenberg said. “When I graduated from Harpur at the age of nineteen, I was confident about my abilities. The motto of SUNY while I was here was “Let Each Achieve All He is Capable of Being”, and my experiences at Harpur clearly enabled me to do so.”