Frank H. Wu (Chinese: 吳華揚; pinyin: Wú Huáyáng) is an American legal scholar who has served as the president of Queens College of the City University of New York since 2020.
He also was a CV Starr Foundation Visiting Professor at the School of Transnational Law at Peking University, in its English language JD program, in summer of 2009.
[9][11] UC Hastings is a unique institution, a standalone law school affiliated with a public system and entitled to brand itself as University of California.
In 2012, Wu gained national publicity for rebooting legal education, by announcing that his school would be voluntarily reducing its enrollment by 20 percent over the next three years.
He then joined the law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, concentrating on complex litigation and devoting a quarter of his time to the representation of indigent individuals.
Wu accepted the trustees of Deep Springs' invitation to serve as a member of the college's governing board; he later was academic affairs chair and vice-chair.
As a board member, Wu emphasized the significance of shared governance, asserting that decision-making authority at a university leads by serving its many stakeholders, the most important of which are the students.
Wu is a board member of the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights Education Fund, and served as both chair and then the first president of the Committee of 100 (United States),[18] the non-profit group of Chinese Americans seeking to promote better US-China relations and the active participation of Chinese Americans in public life, and has chaired its many research projects.
[20] Wu is a commissioner of the Military Leadership Diversity Commission,[21] an organization created to find ways to eliminate any barriers to advancement of minority Service members.
He also has testified before the United States Congress and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and he appeared as an expert witness on behalf of students who intervened in the historic University of Michigan affirmative action case.