Tulane Provost Second UI President Finalist

[cigaretteman]

The second finalist candidate for University of Iowa president is the provost and senior vice president at Tulane University, according to a Thursday announcement from the Iowa Board of Regents.

Michael Bernstein will visit the UI campus on Friday to meet with faculty, staff, students, members of the community and local elected officials. Bernstein's resume is available on the UI presidential search website.

As with the other announced finalist, Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov, Bernstein also will participate in a late afternoon public forum in the Iowa Memorial Union. Krislov's forum will take place from 4:45 to 6:15 p.m. today in the second floor ballroom. Bernstein's forum will take place 4:45 to 6:15 p.m. Friday in the main lounge.

Live video streaming of the public forum and a recording upon its conclusion will be available on the UI presidential search website.

Bernstein and Krislov are two of four finalists invited by the Iowa Board of Regents to participate in a final round of interviews on the UI campus. Following the campus visits, the regents are scheduled to convene a meeting Sept. 3 in Iowa City to interview the candidates and select a new president.

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2015/08/27/2nd-ui-finalist-michael-bernstein/32466439/

 

[cigaretteman]

Professor Michael Bernstein was selected as the Provost beginning July 1, 2007. He comes to Tulane from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where he served as the Dean of Arts and Humanities and as a Professor of History.

Professor Bernstein's teaching and research interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory.

His publications explore the connections between political and economic processes in modern industrial societies, as well as the interaction of economic knowledge and professional expertise with those processes as a whole.

Along with numerous articles and anthology chapters, Bernstein has published four volumes: The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Understanding American Economic Decline [co-edited with David Adler] (Cambridge University Press, 1994); The Cold War and Expert Knowledge: New Essays on the History of the National Security State [co-edited with Allen Hunter] (a special issue of the Radical History Review 63 (Fall, 1995); and A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2001).

A former Fulbright Scholar at Christ’s College (Cambridge University), Michael Bernstein has held research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, and the Economic History Association. In addition, he has been an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Center and has held a Residency Fellowship at Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) under the joint auspices of the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association for American Studies. More recently, Bernstein received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California, San Diego.

At UCSD, Professor Bernstein served as Department Chair in History for six years, after which time, he subsequently took up duties as Chair of the Academic Senate of his home campus. He has also participated in the work of the UCSD Chancellor’s Diversity Council, the Advisory Board of the UCSD Women’s Center, the Advisory Committee of the UCSD Office of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Policy, and of the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women.

He has also been active in broader professional activities as exemplified by his service as Program Chair for the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Co-Convenor of the Economic History Association Dissertation Prize Competition, Chair of the Committee on Research in Economic History of the Economic History Association, Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the American Studies Program of the American Council of Learned Societies, and as Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic History. In September 2005, Dr. Bernstein was named Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego, a position in which he served until his appointment as Provost of Tulane University in July 2007.

Education:
B.A., Economics, Yale University
M.A., Economics, Yale University
M.Phil., Economics, Yale University
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University

http://tulane.edu/administration/provost_bio.cfm

 

[dgordo]

2 candidates, 2 jews, no thanks.

 

[mstp1992]

2 candidates, 2 jews, no thanks.

You're an anti-Semitic jackass.

 

[LunchBox50]

Still waiting for icu to tell me what college he graduated from.

 

[hawkeye54545]

This is my kind of thread. In just a few responses people have been called a Heeb, jew, anti-Semitic jackass and a retard.

You're making me proud douchebags.

 

[JRHawk2003]

I'm thinking this guy would not be so great for athletics.

Remember, these people don't perform administration. They raise money and pat backs.

 

[JRHawk2003]

What? I am talking about University Presidents....not some ethnic group.

 

[BondHawk]

I'm thinking this guy would not be so great for athletics.

Remember, these people don't perform administration. They raise money and pat backs.

What leads you to believe he would be good or bad for athletics? He at least has an economics background, so he should understand the decisions made in and around the athletic department can have a financial impact on the University as a whole.

 

[mstp1992]

What? I am talking about University Presidents....not some ethnic group.

I don't know what the hell that guy's problem is.

Bad genes, maybe.

From a selfish standpoint, he does have experience with a large academic medical institution; he's on the board of the Tulane University Healthcare System. Also, he had a research grant from little ol' Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. So, there's your Iowa connection.

 

[swagsurfer02]

There is much fail in this thread...

Dgordo is obviously Jewish, he's a shlameel!

Raising money and patting backs is a Jewish stereotype..


And I'm the black guy on the board and considered, the uneducated one!!! SHEESH

 

[icu81222]

Still waiting for icu to tell me what college he graduated from.

WTH does that matter?

If you really have to know, it was a small private university in the Midwest. Much like a Grandview or Coe type school.

Where did you graduate and WTF difference does that make?

Oberlin is a leftist looney bin and I simply pointed it out.

 

[icu81222]

I would like to know more about this guy's athletics background and views.

 

[torbee]

Professor Michael Bernstein was selected as the Provost beginning July 1, 2007. He comes to Tulane from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where he served as the Dean of Arts and Humanities and as a Professor of History.

Professor Bernstein's teaching and research interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory.

His publications explore the connections between political and economic processes in modern industrial societies, as well as the interaction of economic knowledge and professional expertise with those processes as a whole.

Along with numerous articles and anthology chapters, Bernstein has published four volumes: The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Understanding American Economic Decline [co-edited with David Adler] (Cambridge University Press, 1994); The Cold War and Expert Knowledge: New Essays on the History of the National Security State [co-edited with Allen Hunter] (a special issue of the Radical History Review 63 (Fall, 1995); and A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2001).

A former Fulbright Scholar at Christ’s College (Cambridge University), Michael Bernstein has held research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, and the Economic History Association. In addition, he has been an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Center and has held a Residency Fellowship at Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) under the joint auspices of the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association for American Studies. More recently, Bernstein received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California, San Diego.

At UCSD, Professor Bernstein served as Department Chair in History for six years, after which time, he subsequently took up duties as Chair of the Academic Senate of his home campus. He has also participated in the work of the UCSD Chancellor’s Diversity Council, the Advisory Board of the UCSD Women’s Center, the Advisory Committee of the UCSD Office of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Policy, and of the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women.

He has also been active in broader professional activities as exemplified by his service as Program Chair for the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Co-Convenor of the Economic History Association Dissertation Prize Competition, Chair of the Committee on Research in Economic History of the Economic History Association, Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the American Studies Program of the American Council of Learned Societies, and as Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic History. In September 2005, Dr. Bernstein was named Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego, a position in which he served until his appointment as Provost of Tulane University in July 2007.

Education:
B.A., Economics, Yale University
M.A., Economics, Yale University
M.Phil., Economics, Yale University
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University

http://tulane.edu/administration/provost_bio.cfm

He sounds, like, smart and stuff.

 

[mstp1992]

WTH does that matter?

If you really have to know, it was a small private university in the Midwest. Much like a Grandview or Coe type school.

Where did you graduate and WTF difference does that make?

Oberlin is a leftist looney bin and I simply pointed it out.

Why won't you say the name of the school? Nothing wrong with small private midwestern schools. Marv Levy's a Coe graduate. Reagan went to Eureka. Christine Todd Whitman went to Wheaton.

Is Oberlin "liberal?" By most definitions it is. That does not make it a 'leftist looney bin.' That is strictly your opinion based solely on your personal biases and no tangible evidence.

These biases, which dominate your comments, renders much of what you say completely meaningless.

Wait a second! You don't like Oberlin because their academic standards were too high for you and they rejected your application. That must be it.

 

[icu81222]

Why won't you say the name of the school? Nothing wrong with small private midwestern schools. Marv Levy's a Coe graduate. Reagan went to Eureka. Christine Todd Whitman went to Wheaton.

Is Oberlin "liberal?" By most definitions it is. That does not make it a 'leftist looney bin.' That is strictly your opinion based solely on your personal biases and no tangible evidence.

These biases, which dominate your comments, renders much of what you say completely meaningless.

Wait a second! You don't like Oberlin because their academic standards were too high for you and they rejected your application. That must be it.

Anonymity for one. No reason for you dorks to know any more about me than that.

Also, you obviously know very little about Oberlin College if you don't realize it is a leftist looney bin. It is a breeding ground of hateful leftists

 

[mstp1992]

Anonymity for one. No reason for you dorks to know any more about me than that.

Also, you obviously know very little about Oberlin College if you don't realize it is a leftist looney bin. It is a breeding ground of hateful leftists

The anonymity part is fine. However, the rest of your comment is pretty worthless. And, yes, I know quite a bit about Oberlin College. I had a student in my lab for a rotation who went to Oberlin. Extremely intelligent young lady who is now on fellowship at Ohio University.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Ok, who is Jim Webb? Is this a new Arb ID? Man I hate the name switching.

 

[mstp1992]

Ok, who is Jim Webb? Is this a new Arb ID? Man I hate the name switching.

That's who I'm thinking it is.

I suppose we could test it by saying something about Omaha-Council Bluffs.

 

[icu81222]

The anonymity part is fine. However, the rest of your comment is pretty worthless. And, yes, I know quite a bit about Oberlin College. I had a student in my lab for a rotation who went to Oberlin. Extremely intelligent young lady who is now on fellowship at Ohio University.

You danced around it I see.

So just because you know a person who seemed smart and went to that s******* that means it's not a liberal petri dish?

It is.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Oberlin is indeed liberal it seems, but its no in the same tier as Grinnell. Grinnell is an excellent school. UI is #252 of 880 on most liberal scale. Way behind Madison.

https://colleges.niche.com/rankings/most-liberal-colleges/

Im guessing ICU went to Wheaton. He would fit right in.

 

[mstp1992]

You danced around it I see.

So just because you know a person who seemed smart and went to that s******* that doesn't mean it's a liberal petri dish?

It is.

I already said the majority of students/staff are liberal. There's no indoctrination going on, though.

What specifically did they do to piss you off? Was it some of the student comments regarding Christina Hoff Sommers (who, by the way was invited by a group of conservative students)? Or was it actions by students during and following an invited talk by Oberlin College graduate Michelle Malkin?

 

[theIowaHawk]

I'm underwhelmed so far.

So far both candidates are Yale guys? Is that coincidence?

 

[icu81222]

I already said the majority of students/staff are liberal. There's no indoctrination going on, though.

What specifically did they do to piss you off? Was it some of the student comments regarding Christina Hoff Sommers (who, by the way was invited by a group of conservative students)? Or was it actions by students during and following an invited talk by Oberlin College graduate Michelle Malkin?

Nope. Just hate most everything liberalism stands for. It is based on double standards and intolerance. And, the only way it works is to allow and encourage dishonesty and deception for the good of "the cause".

 

[mstp1992]

Nope. Just hate most everything liberalism stands for. It is based on double standards and intolerance. And, the only way it works is to allow and encourage dishonesty and deception for the good of "the cause".

So, you're a right wing nut job. Good to know.

 

[JRHawk2003]

So, you're a right wing nut job. Good to know.

You just now figured that out?

 

[ping72]

UC San Diego does not have a football team. The faculty refuse to allow one citing it will hurt academics. So they remain a DII school, despite having about 23,000 undergraduates (nearly twice as many as UNI, for example).

Not saying he supports that view.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

2 candidates, 2 jews, no thanks.

Yep. Might as well just get it over with and rename Iowa City to "Hymietown".

 

[mstp1992]

You just now figured that out?

Yep, I'll admit I can be a bit slow on the uptake at times .