James M. Shuart

He grew up in College Point, Queens graduated from Flushing High School in 1949 and went to Hofstra on a football scholarship.

After graduating, he married his college sweetheart, Marjorie Strunk, and was immediately drafted into the Army, where he served as a counterintelligence officer in postwar Korea.

[5] In that role, he had worked on issues regarding foster children caretakers, segregation within the county, and low income housing among other measures.

[9] Shuart returned to Hofstra on October 3rd, 1975, as he was seleced to be the next vice president for administrative services for the university.

[11][12] In 1977, the university, along with the American Association of University Professors chapter at the institution, had instituted what New York Times writer Roy Silver called "the first labor agreement of its kind in American higher education", an agreement was set to tie instructor and professor increases in salary based on enrollment numbers.