Baruch Presidential Candidate Biographies
- Mr. Robert J. Reinstein
(See bio and photo)
Vice President, Dean & Professor of Law
James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University
- Dr. Kathleen M. Waldron
(See bio and photo)
Dean, School of Business Public Administration & Information Sciences
Long Island University
- Dr. Astrid E. Merget
(See bio and photo)
Dean & Professor, School of Public & Environmental Affairs
Indiana University -- Bloomington
- Dr. Stephen Spinelli,
Jr. (See bio and photo)
Director, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson College
Astrid
E. Merget
Dean, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University - Bloomington
In
the fall of 2000, Astrid E. Merget became the third Dean of
the University-wide School of Public and Environmental Affairs
(SPEA) at Indiana University. Prior to her appointment she
had served as Chair of the Department of Public Administration
and Associate Dean at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs at Syracuse University. In 1994, Dr. Merget
took leave from academic life to serve in Washington DC as
Senior Adviser to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
Previously Dr. Merget spent eight years at The Ohio State
University, where she directed the School of Public Policy
and Management and spent a year as the Acting Dean of the
College of Business. The preceding eleven years were spent
in Washington, D.C. as Chair of the Department of Public Administration
at The George Washington University and as a special assistant
to the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research
at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during
the first year of the Carter Administration. Before her years
in Washington, Dr. Merget lived in New York City and taught
at Barnard College of Columbia University.
A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration,
she was elected a trustee of the Board in 1987, then Vice
Chair in 1988 and Chair in 1991 until 1993. From 1985 until
1986, she was President of the National Association of Schools
of Public Affairs after serving as Vice President and a member
of the Council. She sat on the Board of Independent Sector
(IS) from 1987 until 1992 and also served as its Treasurer
and Vice Chair; she continued on with IS as Chair of its Committee
on Leadership and Management until 1997. The Comptroller General
appointed her in 1986 to his Research and Education Advisory
Panel; in 2001, the new Comptroller appointed her to his Educators’
Panel. From 1997 until 1999, Dr. Merget served as Co-Chair
of the Task Force on Outcomes at the United Way of America.
She has also been a consultant to the Committee for Economic
Development, the International City/County Management Association
and numerous other governmental agencies and non-profit organizations.
Dr. Merget graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College
and served there as a Trustee from 1998-2003. She earned her
MPA and PhD from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
She is the author of many articles and reports on public finance,
public administration and non-profit management. Her teaching
repertoire corresponds to those fields as well. With colleagues
at Maxwell she completed a major research project on community
benchmarking sponsored by the Alfred Sloan Foundation.
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Robert
J. Reinstein
Vice President of Temple University and
Dean of the Temple University Beasley School of Law
Robert
J. Reinstein is a Vice President of Temple University and
Dean of the Temple University Beasley School of Law. He
has been a member of Temple’s Law faculty since 1969
and teaches in the areas of constitutional law, political
and civil rights, employment discrimination, federal jurisdiction
and jurisprudence. He has also taught at the Georgetown
University School of Law, the University of California Hastings
College of the Law, the University of Tel Aviv Buchmann
Faculty of Law, Temple University Japan and Temple University
Rome.
Mr. Reinstein graduated in 1965 from Cornell University
and received a B.S. degree with distinction. His undergraduate
major was Engineering Physics, and he was awarded a John
McMullen Scholarship. In 1968, he received a J.D. degree
cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he held
a Felix Frankfurter Scholarship and served in the Harvard
Legal Aid Office. He then clerked for United States District
Judge Frank A. Kaufman in Baltimore.
From 1970 through 1977, while a member of the Temple Law
School faculty, Mr. Reinstein was a consulting attorney
to the NAACP. He brought and tried numerous civil rights
cases, including major class actions which successfully
challenged employment discrimination against African-Americans
in the Philadelphia Police and Fire Departments, the Pennsylvania
State Police and the Operating Engineers Union Local 542.
Mr. Reinstein also represented Senator Mike Gravel before
the U.S. Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers litigation.
While on leave from Temple from 1977 through 1980, Mr. Reinstein
worked in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice. During the first two years of this service,
he was a Senior Attorney in the Division's Appellate Section
and represented the United States in major civil rights
cases concerning employment, education and voting discrimination.
During the second two years of this service, Mr. Reinstein
was Chief of the General Litigation Section and was responsible
for enforcing the federal civil rights laws in the areas
of education, housing and credit. He received the Meritorious
Service, Outstanding Performance and Special Commendation
Awards and was selected as a charter member of the Senior
Executive Service.
Mr. Reinstein returned to the faculty of Temple Law School
in 1981 and was appointed University Counsel the next year.
He served as University Counsel for seven years and was
responsible for representing the University, including its
Hospital, in all legal matters. He negotiated the agreements
that led to the establishment and expansion of the University's
campus in Tokyo, Japan. He was instrumental in designing
and implementing an affirmative action program for the construction
of Temple University Hospital that became a model for major
construction projects in the Philadelphia area.
Since 1989, Mr. Reinstein has been a Vice President of Temple
University and Dean of the Beasley School of Law. His duties
as Vice President include overseeing the University’s
international programs. The deans of Temple University Japan
(TUJ) and Temple University Rome report to him. TUJ has
more than 1,400 students in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, with
undergraduate and graduate degree-granting programs in liberal
arts, business, education and law. Temple Rome provides
semester-abroad and summer programs to more than 550 American
students each year in art, art history, business and law.
Mr. Reinstein has also been a member of the University Budget
Committee and was chair for two years.
During his tenure as Dean of the Law School, the school
has received over $65 million in contributions from graduates,
foundations and friends and more than $10 million in federal
grants. The endowment has increased from $4 million to over
$37 million. Nine new faculty professorships and more than
60 new endowed scholarships for students have been established.
The faculty and curriculum have expanded substantially.
The size of the full-time faculty has increased from 42
to 55. The Law School has instituted innovative public interest,
trial advocacy, international, tax, business law and professional
responsibility programs. In 1999, the school began a Masters
of Law program in China, which is the first foreign law
degree-granting program in that country. The Law School’s
physical facilities have been modernized and expanded through
the creation of a “smart” conference center
(Shusterman Hall, dedicated 1997), the renovation of Barrack
Hall as an annex for additional classrooms and offices (dedicated
2002) and the complete renovation of the Law School’s
main building, Klein Hall (scheduled for completion this
summer).
During Dean Reinstein’s tenure, the Law School has
received the E. Smythe Gambrell Award for Contributions
to Professionalism from the American Bar Association and
the Emil Gumpert Award for Excellence in the Teaching of
Trial Advocacy from the American Trial Lawyers Association.
The Law School’s trial advocacy program is regularly
rated first in the country in the U.S. News and World
Report and other rankings. The Law School has recently
been ranked by The National Jurist as sixteenth
in the country in the availability and use of technology.
Mr. Reinstein has received a number of awards for public
service, including an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from
Elizabethtown College. In 1999, members of the Law School’s
faculty, administration and staff created through their
personal contributions the endowed Robert J. Reinstein Scholarship
in Law, in honor of his first ten years as dean. In 2002,
the Prime Minister of the Peoples Republic of China presented
Mr. Reinstein with the National Friendship Award. He is
the first person to receive that award for contributions
to the development of the rule of law in China.
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Stephen
Spinelli, Jr.
Director, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson College
I
passionately believe that higher education can create personal,
institutional and societal value by engaging stakeholders
at the intersection of thought and action. I am currently
the vice provost for entrepreneurship at Babson College. Entrepreneurship
is the core mission of Babson and I am charged with forging
our teaching, research and outreach initiatives in entrepreneurship
across the college. My responsibilities include directing
the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and chairing
the entrepreneurship division at Babson College. U.S. News
and World Report has ranked Babson number one in entrepreneurship
all eleven years of my time at the college.
Prior to my career in academia, I was a founder of Jiffy Lube
International and later the founder, director and senior executive
of American Oil Change Corporation, the largest franchisee
of this international automotive retailer. While growing Jiffy
Lube I received my MBA, studying in the evening. Education
has always been important in our family. My parents were first
generation Americans and my three siblings and I are the first
in our family to go to college. My education had such a profound
effect on our success in Jiffy Lube that I decided to pursue
a new career in academia after we sold the company. I went
to the University of London to study for my Ph.D. I love immersing
myself in commitment.
I find professional balance through research and writing,
participation as a director of both for profit and not for
profit organizations, consulting to small, medium and large
organizations and teaching. Publishing academic papers with
internationally renowned scholar Sue Birley, a text book with
my colleague Jeffry Timmons and a trade book with Dunkin Donuts
founder Bob Rosenberg were immensely fulfilling experiences.
My work with companies as an investor, advisor and board member
helps keep me at the interface of current business practice
and makes me keep it real in the classroom.
I relish opportunities to communicate the vision of the college
to our various stakeholders. I fervently believe in the mission
of higher education to develop better citizens, decision makers
and leaders. My greatest strengths are in entrepreneurship,
the management of complex business and academic organizations,
applied research, curriculum development and teaching. I view
leadership as service to the community. Great leadership is
the result of great teams.
I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Imperial College - University
of London, an MBA from Babson College, and a BA in Economics
from McDaniel College.
My wife Carol and son Stephen are classically trained musicians
and have added incalculable pleasure and culture to my life.
My daughter Kate recently graduated from Villanova with a
degree in economics. She is far more talented than her father
and a really fun person to be around.
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Dr. Kathleen Waldron
Dean of the School of Business, Public Administration and
Information Sciences, Long Island University
Dr.
Kathleen Waldron is Dean of the School of Business, Public
Administration and Information Sciences of Long Island University
Brooklyn Campus. The School awards undergraduate degrees in
business, accounting, computer science and information systems
and graduate degrees in public administration, taxation, accounting,
computer science, human resources management and the MBA.
Dr. Waldron is responsible for a student body of 1,000 with
over 70 full-time and adjunct faculty.
Prior to joining Long Island University in 1998, Dr. Waldron
worked at Citibank for fifteen years in several managerial
positions. From 1996 to 1998 she was a member of the policy
committee for Citibank's Private Bank, which managed over
$100 billion in assets of clients from over forty countries
and offered a full range of investment, credit and corporate
finance products. She was in charge of Global Strategic Planning
for the Private Bank as the group achieved revenues of $1.4
billion. She also served on a transition team when Citicorp
merged with Travelers Insurance to form Citigroup in 1998.
Dr. Waldron was President of Citibank International in Miami
from 1991-1996 where she managed a $25 million business. From
1988-1991, she was director of Citibank’s International
Agencies Division responsible for providing investment and
credit services to large not for profit entities in the United
States, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to her position
at Citibank, Dr. Waldron worked at Chemical Bank in the Argentine
area of the Latin American Division responsible for government
and private sector lending.
Dr. Waldron received her doctorate in Latin American history
from Indiana University in 1977 and a Certificate in Business
from New York University in 1983. Prior to her banking career,
Dr. Waldron was an assistant professor at Bowdoin College
in Maine and a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Catolica
Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela in 1980-81. She has published
several articles on Latin American finance and Latin American
history and regularly delivers papers and presentations at
academic and professional meetings. Dr. Waldron was a member
of the Presidential Committee on the Fulbright Program, a
member of the Board of Directors of Shands Hospital in Gainesville
Florida, a member of the Florida International Bankers Association,
and a Director of the Fulbright Association. She served on
the board of Alpha II, a closed end equity mutual fund. She
currently serves on the boards of Accion International and
Accion U.S.A., both microcredit lending organizations and
the MetroTech Business Improvement District in Brooklyn, New
York.
Dr. Waldron has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America.
She makes her home in Manhattan.
