Philip R. Day, Jr. (born 7 August 1945) is the former Chancellor of City College of San Francisco. He is also the former president of Daytona Beach Community College, Cape Cod Community College in Massachusetts, and Dundalk Community College in Baltimore, Maryland.
He obtained his M. Ed in Counselor Education from SUNY-Buffalo, his B.S. in Psychology at the University of Maine and his Ed.D in Adult and Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Day is a former member of the board of directors of the American Association of Community Colleges and of the American Council on Education. He also is a member of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, which advises Congress on all matters related to vocational/career education.
In December 2007, the Board of Directors of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) named Dr. Philip R. Day as the Association’s new president and CEO. Day succeeded Dallas Martin who retired after 32 years as NASFAA’s CEO and President.
On July 9, 2009, NASFAA announced that he was taking unpaid leave because he had been indicted for misdirecting public money while at the City College of San Francisco. He resigned on July 23.
On May 6, 2009, "San Francisco District attorney's investigators raided City College of San Francisco on Wednesday, seeking evidence that college officials had illegally spent public money on donations to education-related political campaigns. A copy of a search warrant served on the college shows that investigators are scrutinizing the actions of former Chancellor Philip Day, who left the college last year to work for an education lobbying firm in Washington, D.C." (San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2009, page A-1)