Charles Carletta
Secretary of the Institute and General Counsel

The secretary of the Insititute and general counsel is the president's interface with the Board of Trustees and coordinates all of the university's legal activities, is the president's legal adviser, and acts as the Institute's risk manager.

Charles Carletta has had a long relationship with Rensselaer, serving as a partner in the law firm of Pattison Sampson Ginsberg and Griffin, which for 76 years served as the Institute’s general counsel. Carletta has devoted most of his professional career to issues in higher education.