As SUNY Poly’s Senior Advisor to the President; Assistant Provost, Dr. Steven Schneider oversees academic operations, including SUNY Poly’s six academic colleges and the administrative departments for Scholarship, Accreditation, Assessment, Distance Learning, and Student Success, as well as the Library and Office of the Registrar. He fosters academic excellence and accountability, cultivates innovative academic programs for the long-term growth of the Institution, and supports faculty development while working with other leadership team members to ensure the fiscal health of the academic operations. Dr. Schneider also works closely with SUNY Poly’s shared governance representatives. 

Education

• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.A. University of Pennsylvania
• B.A. George Washington University
• State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities, 2006

Research

• Political impact of the Internet
• Digital librarianship
• Internet archiving
• Instructional technology
• Memorializing on the Internet
• September 11 and the Internet

Publications

Books

• The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning
  2007. Kluver, R., Jankowski, N., Foot, K. and Schneider, S. (Eds). Routledge.
• Web Campaigning
  2006. Foot, K. A., and Schneider, S. M. MIT Press.
  Winner, 2008 American Political Science Association’s Doris Graber Award for Best Book
  Published in Field of Political Communication in Past 10 Years.

Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

• Web Historiography and the Emergence of New Archival Forms.
  2011. Dougherty, M. & Schneider, S. M. In Park, D., Jankowski, N. & Jones, S. (Eds.), Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness, Peter Lang Publishing.
• Object-Oriented Web Historiography
  2010. Schneider, S. M. and Foot, K. A. In Brugger, N. (Ed.), Web History. Peter Lang Publishing.
• Taking Web Archiving Seriously
  2009. Schneider, S. M., Foot, K. A., and Wouters, P. In Jankowski, N. (Ed.), e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice. Routledge.
• Electoral web production practices in cross-national perspective: the relative influence of national development, political culture, and web genre
  2008. Foot, K. A., Xenos, M., Schneider, S. M., Kluver, K., Jankowski, N. In Chadwick, A. and Howard, P. (Eds.), Handbook of Internet Politics. Routledge.
• Candidate Web Practices in the 2002 U.S. House, Senate, and Gubernatorial Elections
  2008. Foot, K. A., Schneider, S. M., Xenos, M., and Dougherty, M. Journal of Political Marketing. 8:2.
• Web Campaigning
  2008. Foot, K. A. and Schneider, S. M. In Kaid, L. L. and Holtz-Bacha, C. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Political Communication. SAGE Publications.
• Promise and Practice of Open Access to E-Science
  2007. Wouters, P., Hine, C., Foot, K., Schneider, S.M., Arunachal, S. And Sharif, Raed. In Shrum, W., Benson, K., Bijker, W.E. and Brunnstein, K. (eds.), Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society. Spring, pp. 159-171.
• Archiving Web Content
  2007. Schneider, S. M. and Foot, K. A. In Donsbach, W. (Ed.),International Encyclopedia of Communication. Blackwell Publishing.
• Introducing the Internet and Elections Project
  2007. Jankowski, N., Kluver, R., Foot, K. and Schneider, S. In Kluver, R., Jankowski, N., Foot, K. and Schneider, S. (eds), The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. Routledge. pp. 3-15.
• Online Structure for Political Action in the 2004 U.S. Congressional Electoral Web Sphere
  2007. Foot, K., Schneider, S. and Dougherty, M. In Kluver, R., Jankowski, N., Foot, K. and Schneider, S. (eds), The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. Routledge. pp. 92-104.
• Comparing Web Production Practices across Electoral Web Spheres
  2007. Foot, K., Schneider, S., Kluver, R., Xenos, M. and Jankowski, N. In Kluver, R., Jankowski, N., Foot, K. and Schneider, S. (Eds), The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. Routledge. pp. 243-260.
• Project Conclusions & Proposals for Continued Research
  2007. Schneider, S., Kluver, R., Foot, K. and Jankowski, N. In Kluver, R., Jankowski, N., Foot, K. and Schneider, S. (eds). 2007. The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. Routledge. pp. 261-264.
• Web Campaigning by U.S. Presidential Primary Candidates in 2000 and 2004
  2006. Schneider, S. M. and Foot, K. A. In Williams, A. and Tedesco, J. (Eds.). The Internet Election Perspectives on the Web's Role in Campaign 2004. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Web-Based Memorializing: Post-September 11 Memorial Sites
  2005. Foot, K. A., Warnick, B. and Schneider, S. M. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11:1.
• Web Sphere Analysis: An Approach to Studying Online Action
  2005. Schneider, S. M. and Foot, K. A. In Hine, C. (Ed.). Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet. Berg Publishers, United Kingdom. [Polish translation in A. Dytman-Stasieńko, J. Stasieńko (ed.), Language and Multimedia 2, WWW – in the Web of Metaphor. Website as an Object of Study, Wroclaw 2008]
• Online Structures for Citizen Engagement in the September 11th Web Sphere
  2004. Foot, K. A. and Schneider, S. M. Electronic Journal of Communication, 14:3.
• The Web as an Object of Study
  2004. Schneider, S. M. and Foot, K. A. New Media and Society 6:1, pp. 94-102. [Polish translation in A. Dytman-Stasieńko, J. Stasieńko (ed.), Language and Multimedia 2, WWW – in the Web of Metaphor. Website as an Object of Study, Wroclaw 2008]
• The Internet and Communication Studies
  2004. Jankowski, N.W., Jones, S., Howard, P., Foot, K., Mansell, R., Schneider, S.M. and Silverstone, R. In Nissenbaum, H. and Price, M. (Eds.), The Internet and the Academy. Peter Lang Publishing.
• Analyzing Linking Practices: Candidate Sites in the 2002 U.S. Electoral Web Sphere
  2003. Foot, K. A., Schneider, S. M., Dougherty, M., Xenos, M., and Larsen, E. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 8:4.
• Crisis Communication & New Media: The Web After September 11
  2003. Schneider, S.M. and Foot, K.A. In Howard, P. and Jones, S. (Eds.), Society Online: The Internet in Context. SAGE Publications.
• Online Action in Campaign 2000: An Exploratory Analysis of the U.S. Political Web Sphere
  2002. Foot, K.A. and Schneider, S.M. Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media 46:2 (June), pp. 222-244.
• Online Structure for Political Action
  2002. Schneider, S.M. and Foot, K.A. Javnost (The Public), 9:2 (June) pp. 43-60.
• Online Action In the U.S. 2000 Political Campaign
  2002. Schneider, S.M. and Foot, K.A. In Serfaty, V. (Ed.). L’Internet en Politique, Des Etats-Unis A L’Europe [The Internet in Politics, the United States and Europe]. Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, France.
• How citizens used the Internet in election 2000
  2001. Stromer-Galley, J., Foot, K. A., Schneider, S. M., Larsen, E. In Coleman, S. (Ed.), Elections in the age of the Internet: Lessons from the United States. Hansard Society, U.K.
• While TV Blundered on Election Night, The Internet Gained Users 2000
  Donahue, H. C., Schneider, S. M., Foot, K. A. Nieman Reports, 54:4, pp. 21-22.
• Political Portals and Democracy: Threats and Promises
  2000. Schneider, S. M. iMP Magazine (May).
• Creating and Managing Dynamic Web Sites: Differentiating Data from Display
  1996. Murphy, D. J., Coker, D. A., Schneider, S. M. In December, J. and Ginsburg, M (Eds.). HTML 3.2 & CGI Unleashed: Professional Reference Edition. SamsNet Publishing.
• Managing the Information Tide: The Human Use of the New Media
  1990. Schneider, S. M. Aspen Institute for Information Studies Annual Review, pp. 59-85.
• Sadat Goes to Jerusalem
  1983. Bagnied, M. and Schneider

Projects

• Director, WebArchivist.org
• Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning

Presentations

• Archiving the Internet (librarians, cultural/heritage organizations)
• The Web and Elections (general audience)
• Web 2.0 (teachers, general audience)
• Instructional technology (teachers, school district leaders, parents)