David Reingold

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David A. Reingold
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David A. Reingold
Born1968 (age 52–53)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityU.S.
Spouse(s)Lynn Hooker
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago and University of Wisconsin at Madison
Doctoral advisorWilliam Julius Wilson and Mark Granovetter and Richard Taub
Academic work
InstitutionsPurdue University and Indiana University

David A. Reingold (born 1968) is an American sociologist and higher education administrator. He is the Justin S. Morrill Dean of the Purdue University College of Liberal Arts. Previously he was the Executive Associate Dean at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs from 2008-2015 and Director of Public Affairs and Public Policy Ph.D. Programs in the School of Public & Environmental Affairs from 2006-2008.

Education and career[]

David Reingold was born in 1968 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood. He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory High School and received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his master's and doctorate from the University of Chicago’s Department of Sociology.

He became an Assistant Professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs in 1997, an Associate Professor with tenure in 2003, a Professor in 2009. He has also served as Visiting Professor at Central European University, School of Public Policy in 2013-2015.

In 2006, he was named Director of Public Affairs and Public Policy Ph.D. Programs in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.

In 2008, Reingold was named Executive Associate Dean for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs for the campus at Indiana University Bloomington.

In 2015, he was named Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University.

University leadership[]

In December 2014, Purdue University announced it had named Reingold the next dean of its College of Liberal Arts. He assumed office on March 1, 2015, as the Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University.[1] A letter to the College's faculty and staff set the tone for his administration later that spring.[2]

In his first year as Dean, Reingold convened a faculty task force to develop an integrated liberal arts program[3] to engage more students across all Purdue majors, particularly those in STEM majors, with the humanities. The result was the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program, which in September 2020 became the model for an initiative led by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Teagle Foundation to replicate the program's general education delivery at colleges and universities across the country.[4][5][6] Launched in fall 2017[7] as a 15-credit certificate program, Cornerstone established a faculty-taught first year sequence to fulfill core curriculum requirements in oral and written communication built around transformative texts, among the greatest that has been said and written. Cornerstone has gained significant notice in the higher education press.[8] [9] [10] [11] Reingold advocated for the importance of general education classes at large research universities, referencing Cornerstone, in an op-ed for the Washington Post. [12]

Also in his first year, Reingold came under fire for efforts to strengthen graduate education by managing graduate student enrollments to help increase stipends to a competitive level. The strategy was part of a larger goal of raising the academic profile of the College. Within three years, Purdue stipends had increased from $14,000 to $18,000. Reingold advocated for undergraduate student career aspirations by creating Job-Ready, an award fund to assist students on unpaid and low-paid career-launching internships. In 2016, the College opened the Liberal Arts Career Center[13] to support student internship and job search.

Under his leadership, the College launched Degree in 3,[14] which enables students enrolled in each of the College's 10 academic units the opportunity to complete a bachelor's degree in three years. A part of Purdue's commitment to value in higher education, the Degree in 3 plans can save students thousands of dollars and enable them to enter the workforce earlier. Degree in 3 was highlighted in a Bloomberg feature[15] on Purdue President Mitch Daniels. In 2019, the College entered into a partnership with Ivy Tech Community College-Lafayette to create three year bachelor's degree paths for graduates of its ASAP accelerated associates degree program.[16]

In September 2018, Purdue launched Degree+,[17] a program created to help students complete a bachelor of arts from the College along with a bachelor of science degree without adding time to degree. Degree+ accepts university core curriculum credits and those from the student's first major to fulfill the breadth required by the liberal arts core.[18]

On September 25, 2019, it was announced that Purdue University received a planning grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to create a model program focused on developing curriculum around professional ethics at the intersection of the liberal arts and technological innovation. Reingold serves as principal investigator for the project. [19]

In 2021, Reingold announced plans that would effectively shutter Purdue’s nationally recognized creative writing program and its renowned literary journal, Sycamore Review. His claim that this was financially necessary is disputed by the English faculty and department records. [20]

As Executive Associate Dean for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington (now the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs), Reingold was the chief academic and administrative officer for the Bloomington campus. Under his leadership, the School moved to the top of the U.S. News and World Report rankings in 2016.[21] He doubled the School's total revenue in five years within an RCM budgeting environment and also raised over $4M to launch and support the School's VISTA Fellows Program and the Vietnam Young Leaders Award Program.

Public service[]

From 2002-04 he served as Director of the Office of Research and Policy Development for the U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service[22] in Washington D.C. In this senior-level executive position, he headed a division within a $1B federal agency, reporting directly to the CEO, a presidential appointee with U.S. Senate confirmation. He represented the Corporation for National and Community Service on the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2002-2004.

Reingold was a member of the White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth and chairperson of the research committee.[23]

His volunteer appointments include the Indiana Commission on Community Service and Volunteerism[24] (reappointed Jan. 2020),[25] Indiana Community Investment Fund, Inc., South Central Community Action Program, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana Housing Authority Board of Commissioners.

Worked for Governor Jim Edgar and Gary MacDougal as a staff member on the Illinois Governor's Task Force on Human Services Reform[26]

Worked with Bruce Cole and National Endowment for the Humanities on the We the People project[27]

Member of the expert panel that helped guide a government report[28] in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Member & President, South Central Community Action Program, Inc.[29] Board of Directors. 2004-2010

Commissioner & Vice-Chair, Bloomington, Indiana Housing Authority Board of Commissioners,[30] 1999-2002 (Elected Vice-Chairperson, 2000–02).

Research[]

His teaching and research include urban poverty, economic development, social welfare policy, low-income housing policy, and government performance.

He oversaw a number of field-defining studies related to community service and volunteerism in the United States.

Created the official U.S. measure of volunteer behavior by developing the annual September supplement to the Current Population Survey which has been administered annually since 2002 by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. These supplements provide researchers with annual data on volunteering that have served as the data source for several CNCS research reports.[31]

Awards and honors[]

In 2009, he was awarded the Indiana National and Community Service Recognition Award.

In 1998, 1999, and 2000, he was awarded the Indiana University Teaching Excellence Recognition Award.

References[]

  1. ^ "David A. Reingold named as dean of the College of Liberal Arts". December 22, 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  2. ^ Bangert, Dave. "Bangert: Are liberal arts 2nd class at Purdue?". Journal and Courier. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  3. ^ Arts, College of Liberal. "Dean's Message // August 2015 // Purdue College of Liberal Arts". Purdue College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  4. ^ Service, Purdue News. "Purdue program provides nationwide model for liberal arts in higher ed". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  5. ^ "The Teagle Foundation - The Teagle Foundation Partners with the National Endowment for the Humanities". www.teaglefoundation.org. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  6. ^ "NEH and Teagle Foundation Partner on $7 Million Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative". National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  7. ^ Reporter, BRAD PUSHKAR Summer. "Liberal Arts looks to build STEM majors' communication skills". Purdue Exponent. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  8. ^ "The need to combine business and liberal arts education (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  9. ^ "Advocates share war and success stories at 'Inside Higher Ed' event". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  10. ^ Mcmurtie, Beth (2019-11-04). "Can You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again? These Colleges May Have It Figured Out". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  11. ^ Cassuto, Leonard (2019-11-10). "A Modern Great Books Solution to the Humanities' Enrollment Woes". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  12. ^ Reingold, David (2018-09-20). "Liberal arts shouldn't be an afterthought at large research universities". Washington Post.
  13. ^ "College of Liberal Arts opens career center".
  14. ^ "Purdue University starts 3-year liberal arts degree program".
  15. ^ "Can Mitchonomics Fix the Broken Business of Higher Ed?". Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  16. ^ "Purdue College of Liberal Arts partners with Ivy Tech ASAP program". WLFI News. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  17. ^ "Degree+ Program". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  18. ^ "Liberal Arts at Purdue streamlines degree options, enhances value". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  19. ^ Service, Purdue News. "Lilly Endowment grant to help Purdue address the intersections of ethics and technology". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  20. ^ https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_4fa4e516-5838-11ec-93eb-5f041b0df525.html
  21. ^ Newsroom, IU Bloomington. "IU's SPEA ranked No. 1 among public affairs graduate programs: IU Bloomington Newsroom: Indiana University Bloomington". news.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  22. ^ "U.S. Corporation for National & Community Service". Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  23. ^ "Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  24. ^ "Serve Indiana". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  25. ^ "Holcomb Makes Board Appointments". www.insideindianabusiness.com. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  26. ^ MacDougal, Gary. "New Era Coming in Human Services". Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  27. ^ "President Seeks $100 Million for NEH's We the People Initiative". Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  28. ^ "Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children" (PDF). Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  29. ^ "South Central Community Action Program". Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  30. ^ "Indiana Housing Authority Board". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  31. ^ "Current Population Survey Volunteers Supplement". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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