In November 2020, he was elected to a four-year term as Democratic Registrar of Voters in Stratford CT Simon began his teaching career as an adjunct professor in the communication department at Rutgers University.
He was named Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology in Fall 2015 and served in that role for two academic years.
[1] Simon received the National 2003 Teacher of the Year award by the Small Program Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
[3] Following his political journalism career, Simon was appointed by Governor Michael Dukakis to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Environment for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1987.
[3] Simon received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, journalism and urban teacher education from Rutgers University in 1974, where he was co-founder and managing editor of the weekly newspaper on the Rutgers/Livingston campus.