Herb Ratner, earned his B.S.W. from Buffalo State College and an M.S. from the University of Oregon. Prior to joining Lander College he held a number of faculty and administrative positions, including Director of Employee and Labor Relations Programs in the Rochester Extension Office of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Director of Employee and Labor Relations at Stony Brook University Hospital and SUNY Stony Brook’s Schools of Health Sciences, Medicine, and Dentistry, and Adjunct Lecturer at SUNY Stony Brook’s Averill Harriman Graduate School of Management.  He has also taught at Hofstra University, Empire State College and Touro University.