Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
In December 2014,Purdue University appointed Reingold as the next dean of the College of Liberal Arts,effective March 1,2015. [1]
Launched in Fall 2017 as a 15-credit certificate program,Purdue's Cornerstone program introduced a faculty-led first-year sequence centered on transformative texts to fulfill core communication requirements. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] He highlighted the value of general education at research universities and cited the Cornerstone program in a Washington Post op-ed. [7]
Reingold led a successful effort to launch a bachelor of arts degree in music at Purdue,a first for the university. The Purdue Board of Trustees approved the new major in April 2021, [8] followed by the Indiana Commission on Higher Education in May. [9]
In 2021,Reingold effectively shuttered Purdue's creative writing program and its literary journal,Sycamore Review,which depends upon graduate students who staff the magazine. He did this by denying the department enough graduate students to keep the program afloat. [10] Reingold's public statement claimed that the department had overspent its 2020-21 graduate budget and made additional commitments that would not allow for the admission of new graduate students in Fall 2022,despite no reduction in the department's graduate education budget from 2021-22 to 2022-23. He maintained that the English Department faculty and leadership will determine the future of the program and the literary journal. [11] [12] His claim that this was financially necessary was disputed by the English faculty and department. [13]
In February 2022,Purdue approved jointly developed AI degrees,a B.A. from the Department of Philosophy and a B.S. from the Department of Computer Science,funded by a Lilly Endowment grant to integrate ethics and technology,with Reingold as principal investigator. [14]
Senior vice president for policy planning
In 2023,he was appointed senior vice president for policy planning at Purdue University. [15]
As senior vice president for policy planning,Reingold oversaw Purdue’s Civics Literacy graduation requirement, [16] freedom of expression initiatives,the Purdue@DC program,and a critical thinking initiative. In June 2024,Purdue's Trustees reaffirmed the university's commitment to institutional neutrality as defined in a 1966 resolution incorporating the principles outlined in the University of Chicago's Kalven Report. [17]
