Thomas O’Toole is the Assistant Dean for Professional Education at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. With more than 20 years of experience as a successful higher education executive and public affairs educator, O’Toole collaborates with the Brooks School’s leadership on all aspects of professional degree program operations, including admissions recruitment and marketing, curriculum planning and instructional design, and performance evaluation and quality improvement for our residential and executive professional degrees. He also lead strategic academic engagement efforts for the Brooks School, including serving as lead for the School’s military student support programs through Service to Service and Service to School, spearheading government and corporate partnerships, cultivating engaged learning projects for our students, and overseeing non-degree certificate development with eCornell.
In addition to his administrative portfolio, O’Toole teaches the MPA Program’s core course on “Issues in Public Administration,” the EMPA Program’s core course on “Public Administration: A Strategic Planning perspective, and a seminar on “Comparative Public and Health Administration” taught across the MPA, EMPA, and EMHA Programs.
O’Toole is the recipient of the 2014-2015 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Professional Service. He earned his BA in International Relations Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude from Bucknell University, his MPA from Cornell University, and his MA and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
