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Steven J. Diner assumed the position of
Provost of the Newark Campus of Rutgers University on November
1, 2002. As Provost, he serves as the Chief Operating Officer
and Chief Academic Officer of the campus, which has over
10,000 students and 1100 full-time employees, and an annual
operating budget of $73,000,000. Rutgers-Newark is home
to the Faculty of Arts & Sciences-Newark, Rutgers Business
School, the School of Criminal Justice. The College of Nursing,
the School of Law-Newark, and the Graduate School-Newark.
It has been ranked the most diverse national university
in America for five years in a row by U.S. News and
World Report.
From 1998 until he assumed the Acting Provost’s
position, Dr. Diner served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts
& Sciences-Newark. He was responsible for building an
Honors College emphasizing experiential learning and research
opportunities in the city of Newark, and for a substantial
growth in undergraduate enrollment. He also established
the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies with
a $2.4 million endowment from the Fund for New Jersey. He
developed a new focus on urban education research and outreach,
a program in Portuguese Studies in collaboration with Portugal’s
Comoes Institute, and a broad-ranging engagement with the
city of Newark in teaching and research.
Dr. Diner holds a PhD in History from the University of
Chicago, and specializes in U.S. urban history, immigration
and ethnic history, and the history of American higher education.
His many publications include A City and Its Universities:
Public Policy in Chicago (1980), Compassion and
Responsibility: Readings in the History of Social Welfare
Policy in the United States (1980), Housing Washington’s
People (1983), and Americans of the Progressive
Era (1998).
Dr. Diner taught at George Mason University from 1985 to
1998, where he served as Vice Provost for Academic Programs
and Associate Senior Vice President, and at the University
of the District of Columbia from 1972 to 1985, where he
served as Chair of the Department of Urban Studies and Director
of the Center for Applied Research and Urban Policy.
He was an American Council on Education Fellow in Academic
Administration in 1983/84. He currently serves on the boards
of the Regional Business Partnership, University Heights
Science Park, Citizens for Better Schools, and the Newark
Historical Society.
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