From 1995 to 2008, he was provost of the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University.
George was a Russian immigrant who owned a shoulder-pad factory, and Isabel was a bookkeeper.
He received his doctorate in higher education administration from Teachers College, Columbia University[2] in 1969.
[1] Shenker was appointed as interim president of Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn in 1969.
He was married twice: first to Adrienne Greene, and later to Susan Smyth Shenker.