Bruce Kingma

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Bruce Kingma
Born (1961-10-04) October 4, 1961 (age 62)
Chicago, IL
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
Institution Syracuse University
Field Academic entrepreneurship
Information economics
Entrepreneurial economics
Alma mater University of Chicago
University of Rochester
AwardsLeavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education (2011)
American Distance Education Consortium National Award for Excellence in Distance Education (2008)
Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning, Effective Practice Award (2006)

Bruce Kingma (born October 4, 1961) is an American economist and academic entrepreneur, who since 1988 has taught and worked in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Kingma is a pioneer in experiential entrepreneurship education and community engagement and his work cover topics ranging from academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and religion, information economics, online education, community engagement, library science, and nonprofit management.

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He is currently working as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University, with joint appointments in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and School of Information Studies. He is the former Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2007-2013) [1] and the former Associate Dean of the iSchool (2000-2007), Syracuse University.

Early life and education

Kingma attended Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Illinois. In 1983, Kingma graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics with honors. Kingma then moved to Rochester to pursue a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester and graduated in 1989. [2]

Career

Academic

Bruce Kingma is currently working as a professor at Syracuse University in the iSchool and School of Management. [3]

Kingma started his career as an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University in the Department of Economics. He then moved to Albany to work as Associate Professor for the School of Information Science and Policy at the University of Albany. While at the University of Albany, he also worked as an Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Information Science (1996-1997) and as a Director of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in Information Science (1997-2000). As the inaugural director of the bachelor’s program in information science, Kingma increased course enrollments from 20 to 1600 students within a period of 3 years.

Bruce Kingma joined Syracuse University in the year 2000, as the Associate Dean of the School of Information Studies. He also founded the WISE education consortium [4] - a partnership of 15 universities worldwide committed to quality online education.

Under his leadership, programs and initiatives like The Web-based Information Science Education Consortium (WISE). [5]

In 2007, Kingma served as the Provost for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Community Engagement at Syracuse University, a title which he held for 6 years. [6]

Major programs started under Provost Kingma’s leadership raised over $350m in external funding. These include The Raymond von Dran Innovation and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator Archived 2019-12-27 at the Wayback Machine , RvD Student Sandbox Incubator, IDS Lean-Startup courses, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, The Near West Side Initiative, The Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, StartUp New York, Engagement Scholars and Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows, The Connective Corridor, The Janklow Arts Leadership Program Archived 2020-04-15 at the Wayback Machine , The South Side Innovation Center Archived 2020-04-15 at the Wayback Machine , The South Side Initiative, The New York State Business Plan Competition, [7] Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, [8] The Syracuse University Entrepreneurship Club, and The Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Learning Community.

From 2010 to 2013, Kingma was a contributor to the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded Lib-Value project measuring the return on investment of academic libraries. [9]

Entrepreneurial

Bruce Kingma is the founder of the award-winning WISE Consortium [10] in 2002 which was the first international consortium of universities in online education.

Research

From 2007-2012, Kingma produced the “Syracuse Campus-Community Entrepreneurship Initiative: Transforming Campus and Community Culture to Foster Entrepreneurial Development in the Region. [11] Principal Investigator, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO ($3,000,000). From 2006-2009, Kingma produced the “WISE+: Leveraging the Power of the Network to Increase the Diversity of LIS Curriculum” Principal Investigator. (joint proposal with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Pittsburgh), Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C. ($936,338). From 2004-2006, Kingma produced the “WISE: Web-based Information Science Education. An Online Consortial Initiative to Build Multi-Institutional Capacity for Library and Information Science Education.” Principal Investigator (joint proposal with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C. ($713,492).

Awards and honors

Kingma received the Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning, Effective Practice Award in 2006. [12] [13] In 2007, Syracuse University received the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. [14] In 2008, Kingma received the American Distance Education Consortium National Award for Excellence in Distance Education. [15] In 2009, Kingma received the Community Entrepreneurial Leadership Award. [16] In 2011, Kingma received the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. [17] In 2015, Kingma received the Deshpande Foundation Award for Excellence in Curriculum Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education. [18] In 2018, Syracuse University received the National Model Program Award from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. [19]

Bibliography

Books

Publications

Economics

Library and Information Management

Online Education

Entrepreneurship

Membership and Associations

Kingma has been on the Board of Directors (2016-2017) of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He was also a member of the External Review Panel (2004-2017) of the American Library Association, Committee on Accreditation. He has been an iCorps Program Reviewer (2012-2017) for the National Science Foundation.

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