Susan Poser | |
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9th President of Hofstra University [1] | |
Assumed office August 1, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Stuart Rabinowitz |
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at University of Illinois at Chicago | |
In office February 1, 2016 –July 31, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Lon Kaufman |
Succeeded by | Javier Reyes |
Dean of University of Nebraska College of Law | |
In office May 15, 2010 –January 31, 2016 | |
Preceded by | Steven Willborn |
Succeeded by | Richard Moberly |
Personal details | |
Born | Washington,D.C.,U.S. | September 7,1963
Spouse | |
Children | 2 [2] |
Education | |
Website | www |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Rights, remedies, and organizational change: A theory for school desegregation (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Malcolm M. Feeley |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Jurisprudence |
Sub-discipline | Sociology of Law |
Institutions | |
Susan Poser (born September 7,1963) is the current and first female president of Hofstra University,having succeeded retiring president Stuart Rabinowitz on August 1,2021. [3] 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. [4]
Susan Poser was born to Norman Stanley Poser (born May 28,1928,in Hampstead,London,England [5] ) and Miriam Poser (née Kugelman;born October 17,1930,in Moers,Germany [6] ) on September 7,1963,in Washington,D.C. [7] Her father Norman had immigrated to the United States from Genoa,Italy in 1939, [8] and would go on to be an attorney for the Security and Exchange Commission,executive vice president of the American Stock Exchange,and a professor at Brooklyn Law School. [9] [10] [11] Her mother Miriam had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1936 to escape anti-Semitic persecution. [12] [13]
Poser attended Columbia Prep until 8th grade,when she went to high school at Fieldston. [14] She also spent her early summers attending the Interlochen National Music Camp,where she would eventually also work. [15]
Poser graduated from Swarthmore College in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Ancient Greek and political science. [16] Poser held teaching positions at both Anatolia College and Armstrong Preparatory School as an English teacher from 1985 to 1986 and 1986 to 1987,respectively. [17] After receiving her J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1991,Poser clerked for Dolores Sloviter,Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. [18] Poser served as a Zicklin Fellow in Ethics of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. [19] She received a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2000. [20]
Poser began to work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1994,as a visiting professor of law. [17] She officially became a part of the faculty in 1999. In 2003,Poser was appointed by the Nebraska State Bar Association to review policies in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct,which resulted in her publication of Multijurisdictional Practice for a Multijurisdictional Profession. [20] [21] In 2004,Poser was awarded the College of Law's distinguished teaching award. [22] In 2005,she would receive the State Bar's Shining Light Award for her work,as well as becoming the director of the Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching &Study of Applied Ethics. [23] [24] Poser was appointed as the associate to chancellor Harvey Perlman in 2007 and served until 2010. She became a full professor of law in 2008. Poser was then appointed University of Nebraska College of Law's dean in 2010. The semester before,Perlman wanted to appoint her as a provost,but the proposal was rejected. [25] During her tenure,the law school moved up 33 places in the U.S. News &World Report rankings. [26]
In 2016,Poser was appointed provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Illinois-Chicago. During that time,many initiatives were initiated,most notably the acquisition of John Marshall Law School making it the first public law school in Chicago. [27] Poser oversaw the highest student enrollment ever at the university as it set records for six years in a row,culminating with a 33,598 student enrollment in 2020. [28] However,her tenure also saw a strike from graduate assistants and teaching assistants in regards to pay. This strike would last about three weeks and cancel over 550 classes. [29] [30]
Poser was named Hofstra University's ninth president on December 9,2020,and assumed the post on August 1,2021,becoming the first woman to be president of Hofstra. In an interview with the Valley Stream Herald,Dr. Poser outlined her priorities as the next president,which include a commitment to the liberal arts,meeting as many people and perspectives as possible,promoting a "culture of inclusion" and possibly still including virtual learning after the COVID-19 pandemic at the university. [31]
Poser is Jewish on both her mother and father's side. [32] She is married to professor and researcher Stephen DiMagno. [33]
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