Glenn C. Altschuler | |
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![]() Altschuler in September 2010 | |
Born | Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. | January 3, 1950
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | writer, educator and university administrator |
Academic background | |
Education | Brooklyn College (BA), Cornell University (MA) (PhD) |
Thesis | Progress and Public Service: A Life of Andrew D. White (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Kammen |
Academic work | |
Discipline | American Studies |
Institutions | Ithaca College Cornell University |
Website | https://history.cornell.edu/glenn-altschuler |
Glenn Altschuler is an American writer,educator,administrator, [1] [2] and professor at Cornell University,where he is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Emeritus Professor of American Studies and a Weiss Presidential Fellow.
Altschuler has taught large lecture courses in American popular culture and has been a strong advocate for the value of humanities and for high-quality undergraduate teaching and advising. He is a subject-matter expert on Popular Culture,Politics,and Higher Education in the United States. [3] [4] [5]
Altschuler received his BA in history (Magna Cum Laude with Honors) from Brooklyn College in 1971,his MA from Cornell University in 1973,and his PhD in American history from Cornell in 1976. [6]
Altschuler began his teaching career as a history professor at Ithaca College in 1975. In 1981,he joined Cornell University as an administrator and teacher and became noted for his work on the history of American popular culture. [6] He believes that popular culture is "contested terrain",where economic classes and demographic groups struggle to make their marks on society. [2] His year-long course in American Popular Culture was among the most popular at the university. [6] [7]
From 1991 to 2020,he served as Dean of the Cornell University School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. [6] [8] Altschuler also served as Cornell's vice president for University Relations [9] from October 2009 to January 2014,with responsibilities for articulating and overseeing strategies related to communications,government relations,and land grant affairs. [10] Additional positions included Chair of the Academic Advising Center (1983-1991),Associate Dean for Advising and Alumni Affairs (1986-1991),and Chair of Cornell's Sesquicentennial Commission (2012-2015).
Altschuler wrote a column on higher education for the quarterly Education Life section of The New York Times from 1999 through 2022 (see,for example,COLLEGE PREP;The -------- That Changed My Life). He was a regular panelist on national and international affairs From 2002 to 2005 for the WCNY television program The Ivory Tower Half-Hour [11] . [1] Altschuler has given lectures throughout the United States and in China,England,Ireland,Israel,Italy,and Russia. A collection of his papers is housed in the Cornell Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. [12]
He has written more than 2,000 scholarly essays,opinion pieces,book reviews,and articles for publishers including The Australian , Barron's Financial Weekly , The Chronicle of Higher Education , The Conversation US, Forbes , The Hill, Huffington Post , Inside Higher Ed , The Jerusalem Post ,The New York Times,NPR ("Books We Love"), Psychology Today , The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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