W. Bruce Leslie, a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at the College of Brockport, is the author of Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the “Age of the University,” 1865–1917 and co-editor of SUNY at Sixty: The Promise of the State University of New York. His Sixty-Four Campuses–One University: The Story of SUNY, co-authored with Ken O'Brien, will be published this fall