Over the course of his 30-year career in higher education, Barry has served as a tenured faculty member, department chair, dean, and vice president and provost. In his most recent role as senior vice president, he was responsible for monitoring the $400M construction phase of the Senior Learning Community (SLC) on the campus of Purchase College, including coordination with the SLC Executive Director, the PCAC/PLSC Board, its counsel, and the college’s cabinet. Barry oversaw the development of non-credit and credit-based intergenerational learning, including oversight of the Director for Intergenerational Learning and Continuing Education who created, planned, and administered quality educational programs that promoted life-long learning opportunities for youth and precollege students, and the residents of Broadview, the Senior Learning Community on the Purchase College campus. Before his work as senior VP, Barry was the provost at Purchase and oversaw the Schools of Art and Liberal Arts and Sciences, Central Technology Services, Purchase College Library, Office of International Programs and Services, The Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Performing Arts Center. During his ten-year tenure at Purchase, Barry reconfigured the communications program in Liberal Studies; redesigned and relaunched international studies as a unit devoted to global education; reorganized Liberal Studies core offerings; launched an English Language Intensive program in Continuing Education; conducted a feasibility study for the Center for Engagement, which is launched in the fall of 2018. Barry continues to direct in the theatre professionally having just concluded a run of the play Staring and Spitting into the Abyss at the New York City Solo Festival. He has directed productions throughout the Midwest and in Texas, Edinburgh, Atlanta, and Colorado. Barry and his wife, Carol, a medical dosimetrist, enjoy flyfishing, travel, and time on their boat on the Hudson River.