Samuel B. Gould; Former UC Santa Barbara Chancellor

Samuel B. Gould, 86, chancellor at UC Santa Barbara and later at the State University of New York. As head of the Santa Barbara campus from 1959 to 1962, he played a major role in starting the Education Abroad Program under which hundreds of UC students from all campuses studied in foreign countries. He also vastly expanded UC Santa Barbara’s graduate programs and broadened the school’s liberal arts focus. In 1964, he was appointed by New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller as chancellor of that state’s public university system. He is survived by a son, Richard. In Sarasota, Fla., on July 11.