Investiture of Mark R Nemec PhD | Fairfield University
Channel: Fairfield University
Date: 2018-01-23

On July 1, 2017, Mark R. Nemec, PhD, became the ninth President of Fairfield University and joined the Politics Department as a professor within the College of Arts and Sciences.

A graduate of Loyola High School, a Jesuit College Preparatory in Los Angeles, Dr. Nemec earned a PhD in political science and an MA in education from the University of Michigan, as well as a BA in English from Yale, where he was an All-Ivy League rugby player. Early in his career, he taught American politics as a visiting assistant professor at Davidson College and as an instructor at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and a contributor to The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson (University of Virginia Press, 2012).

Most recently, Dr. Nemec served as the dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago. As dean, Dr. Nemec led the school’s significant growth and evolution by focusing on extending the university’s reach to ever broader student populations in ever more innovative ways. Under his guidance, Graham established outreach and scholarship programs to increase access for students from a variety of backgrounds and to support them in their post-graduate professions and continuing education.

Dr. Nemec has been a frequent speaker on the current and future state of higher education and has presented to a diverse array of audiences including the White House’s Forum on College Affordability, the British Council’s Going Global, the New England Board of Higher Education’s Summit on Cost in Higher Education, and the annual meetings of numerous higher education associations.

Prior to his tenure at the University of Chicago, Dr. Nemec turned from academia to the use of data and analysis to help global organizations, including institutions of higher education, operate more strategically and effectively. He joined the University of Chicago after serving as president and chief executive officer of Eduventures, a Boston-based information services firm providing research and advice to the higher education community. He previously had been a member of the executive team of Forrester Research, a provider of similar services to the technology industry.

Dr. Nemec has joined the Fairfield community with his wife, Suzanne, and their four children Alex, Teddy, Philip, and Kit.

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