Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel,a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art,Science and Industry,it was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936,before assuming its current name in 1970. As of 2020,more than 24,000 students were enrolled in over 70 undergraduate programs and more than 100 master's,doctoral,and professional programs at the university.
The University of Notre Dame du Lac,known simply as Notre Dame,is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame,Indiana. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campus of 1,261 acres has a suburban setting and contains landmarks such as the Golden Dome,the Word of Life mural,Notre Dame Stadium,and the Basilica. Originally for men,the university started accepting undergraduate women in 1972.
The George Washington University is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington,D.C. Originally named Columbian College,it was chartered in 1821 as Washington,D.C.'s first university by the United States Congress. GW is one of nation's six federally chartered universities.
Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) is a private Catholic university in Belmont,California. It is the third oldest college in California and the first college in the state authorized to grant the baccalaureate degree to women. In 2021,the university announced it will begin to operate as a graduate school only. The university is organized into three schools:the School of Business and Management,the School of Education,and the School of Psychology.
Nathan Orr Hatch is an American academic administrator. He most recently served as the President of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem,North Carolina,having been officially installed on October 20,2005. Before coming to Wake Forest,Hatch was a professor and later dean and provost at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to his career in academic administration,he was a historian who was a leading scholar on issues related to the history of religion in the United States.
Daniel J. Myers is the President of Misericordia University in Dallas,Pennsylvania and a professor of Sociology. His best known research is on the urban unrest of the 1960s and the media coverage of those riots,specializing in identifying the patterns of unrest diffusion. He has written several books and articles,and is co-author of the best-selling sociological social psychology textbook,Social Psychology.
The University of Central Florida College of Graduate Studies is an academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando,Florida,United States. The college confers most professional and research master's degrees and doctoral degrees in various fields of study for the university. The departments under which instruction and research take place are housed in UCF's other schools and colleges. The administrative offices for the College of Graduate Studies are located in Millican Hall,on UCF's main campus. The interim dean of the college is Ross Hinkle,Ph.D.
The George Washington University School of Business is the professional business school of George Washington University in Washington,D.C. The GW School of Business is ranked as one of the top business schools in the United States,with globally ranked undergraduate and graduate programs. GW's campus is also adjacent to some of the world's leading financial institutions,including the Federal Reserve,World Bank,and International Monetary Fund.
Moshe Kam is an American Israeli electrical engineer. He is an engineering educator serving as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Until August 2014 he served as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and department head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University. In 2011,he served concurrently as the 49th president and CEO of IEEE. Earlier he was IEEE's vice president for educational activities (2005–2007) and IEEE's representative director to the accreditation body ABET. Kam is known for his studies of decision fusion and distributed detection,which focus on computationally feasible fusion rules for multi-sensor systems.
The University of Notre Dame was founded on November 26,1842,by Father Edward Sorin,CSC,who was also its first president,as an all-male institution on land donated by the Bishop of Vincennes. Today,many Holy Cross priests continue to work for the university,including as its president. Notre Dame rose to national prominence in the early 1900s for its Fighting Irish football team,especially under the guidance of the legendary coach Knute Rockne. Major improvements to the university occurred during the administration of Rev. Theodore Hesburgh between 1952 and 1987 as Hesburgh's administration greatly increased the university's resources,academic programs,and reputation and first enrolled women undergraduates in 1972.
Bruce Eisenstein is an engineering educator serving as the Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was formerly Interim Dean and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University. He has published nearly 50 papers in the areas of digital signal processing,pattern recognition,deconvolution,along with biomedical engineering. He also served as president of the IEEE in 2000.
The George Washington University Student Government Association is the student government of the George Washington University in Washington,DC. The SGA is responsible for advocacy on behalf of the GW student body at and is modeled after the U.S. Federal Government and consists of three branches:legislative,executive and judicial.
Christopher Alan Bracey is an American law professor and former litigator who currently serves as the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of The George Washington University. He is a leading scholar on race,inequality,and the law and is the author of Saviors or Sellouts:The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice (2008) and co-editor of The Dred Scott Case:Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law (2010).
Shixin Jack Hu is the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Georgia. He is also the UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in the school of environmental,civil,agricultural,and mechanical engineering in the UGA College of Engineering.
Bill Hardgrave is an American academic who currently serves as the president of the University of Memphis,a role he's held since April 1,2022. He was previously the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Auburn University. Prior to his time at Auburn,he served as the Bradberry Chair in Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.
Joan Huber is an American sociologist and professor emeritus of sociology at Ohio State University. Huber served as the 79th president of the American Sociological Association in 1989. Huber taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1967 to 1971,eventually moving to Illinois,where she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. While instructing numerous sociology courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign,Huber served as the director of Women's Studies Program for two years (1978–1980),and then became the head of the Department of Sociology in 1979 until 1983. In 1984,Huber left Illinois for an opportunity at the Ohio State University,where she became the dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,coordinating dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences,and senior vice president for academic affairs and university provost. During her time,Huber was president of Sociologists for Women in Society from 1972 to 1974,the Midwest Sociological Society from 1979 to 1980,and the American Sociological Association from 1988 to 1989. Being highly recognized for her excellence,in 1985 Huber was given the Jessie Bernard Award by the American Sociological Association. Not only was Huber an instructor of sociology at multiple institutions or president of different organization,she also served different editorial review boards,research committees,and counseled and directed many institutions on their sociology departments.
Thomas John LeBlanc is a computer scientist and academic administrator. He was the 17th President of the George Washington University from July 2017 to December 2021.
Susan Poser is the current and first female president of Hofstra University,having succeeded retiring president Stuart Rabinowitz on August 1,2021. Before being named to the Hofstra post,she was chief operating officer,provost,and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Ben Vinson III is an American historian and academic administrator. He currently serves as the 18th president of Howard University. He was previously Provost and Executive Vice President of Case Western Reserve University,a position he held since 2018. He also held the title of the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at the university. On May 2,2023,he was appointed to be the 18th President of Howard University in Washington DC.
Marie Lynn Miranda is an American economist,data scientist,and academic administrator serving as the tenth chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago and a vice president of the University of Illinois System since 2023. She was previously the provost and a professor of applied computational mathematics and statistics at the University of Notre Dame. A self-taught toxicologist and environmental scientist,Miranda researches children's environmental health and geospatial health informatics.
