Saul B. Cohen, who helped restore higher academic standards at the City University of New York as president of Queens College and as a member of the state Board of Regents and who revitalized his own field of political geography, died June 9 at his home in Larchmont, NY. He was 95.

Before Queens College, Dr. Cohen was a professor and dean of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in Worcester, MA, where he earned a reputation for upgrading the school’s academic standards and increasing minority enrollment. Previously he taught at Boston University. He wrote or edited 16 books.

After leaving Queens College in 1985, he served as director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, an international relief organization.