The 26th president of this nationally ranked private California university that provides students the personalized learning of a small college combined with the choices of a major comprehensive university. California's oldest chartered university, Pacific has 10 schools and college and more than 100 degree programs and areas of study across campuses in Stockton, Sacramento and San Francisco. More than 6,000 students engage in immersive academic studies, a wide array of experiential learning opportunities and service to communities.

Founding dean and lead academic officer of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Responsible for a team of nearly 400 full-time and part-time faculty and staff, 2,500 students in 10 degree programs and a $26 million annual operating budget. Transformed Cronkite from a struggling program to one of the nation’s leading journalism schools, with students winning major professional awards such as Emmys and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. Increased fundraising by more than 1,000 percent, with more than $75 million in new gifts. Named top journalism dean by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Championed the “teaching hospital” model in journalism education nationally through a series of 15 new full-immersion programs, highlighted by Cronkite News, a unique learning environment that also serves as a major news outlet for Arizona on digital and broadcast platforms and a testbed for the news industry. Launched eight new degree programs on the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels, including highly successful all-online degrees. Brought to the school Arizona PBS, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, the Carnegie-Knight News21 digital journalism initiative, the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship for journalists and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Recruited nationally recognized faculty, including the former top editor of the Washington Post and five Pulitzer Prize winners, tripled the faculty and dramatically increased diversity. Created a Spanish-language news specialization and increased ethnic and geographic diversity across the student body. Drove retention rates that are now the highest at the university. Led planning, design and execution for the school’s new 225,000-square-foot home. Built partnerships with major media companies and other institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Facebook and New America.

CEO of the university-owned public media outlet, the seventh-largest PBS station in the nation. Responsible for 120 full-time and part-time employees and a $15 million operating budget, funded in full externally through membership, underwriting, grants and philanthropy. Redesigned station operations to be fully integrated within the university, increased revenue while decreasing expenditures and launched a daily newscast, a science show highlighting university research and a new 24/7 channel devoted to children’s educational programming.

Lead university executive for a dynamic and fast-growing decade-old campus in the heart of Phoenix, the nation’s fifth-largest city. The Downtown Phoenix Campus is now home to seven of ASU’s 16 colleges, with nearly 13,000 students, 1,500 faculty and staff and more than 75 degree programs across a 16-building, 20-acre campus. Serves as the university representative to the City of Phoenix and a wide variety of business, community, civic, cultural and media organizations and helps coordinate all non-academic issues and challenges on campus, including security, facilities, parking, housing, events and student health and welfare.

No. 2 administrator of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, identifiedby the Freedom Forum as one of the best journalism schools in the country with 600 undergraduate and graduate students, 50 full-time faculty and staff, four journalism institutes, a cable television station and a national magazine. Served as master’s program coordinator, adjunct faculty coordinator, Capital News Service director, head of TV news operations and minority programs liaison.

Served as master’s program coordinator, high school programs director, adjunct faculty coordinator, Capital News Service director, minority programs liaison and chapter adviser to the Society of Professional Journalists (twice named best in nation). Brought the national headquarters of the National Association of Black Journalists to the university.

Wrote on journalism ethics, diversity, data journalism and the newspaper industry for the monthly press review. Named senior editor after serving four years on Board of Editorial Advisers. Also contributed articles to Presstime, the NABJ Journal and the Newspaper Research Journal.

Served as capstone program director in immersive learning laboratory, located in the National Press Building, for seniors and graduate students.

Served as Statehouse capstone director in immersive learning laboratory in Annapolis, Maryland, for seniors and graduate students.

Taught upper-level newspaper feature writing and basic newswriting and reporting courses whileattending master’s program at Harvard University.

Covered Congress, Pentagon, Supreme Court, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, other federalagencies, politics and the 1988 national political conventions for AP newspapers in New England and nationally.

Covered Massachusetts Statehouse, courts, 1986 elections and early stage of the Dukakispresidential campaign. Also stories from the main bureau, including the exploration of the Titanic,and worked as desk supervisor, editing and coordinating the daily state report.

Covered Rhode Island Statehouse, gubernatorial election, courts and Claus von Bulow retrial. Also served as an editor.

Covered Washington for Connecticut newspapers, including the New Haven Register, StamfordAdvocate and Waterbury Republican.

Covered Maine and New Hampshire Statehouses and general assignment stories.

Intern reporter at The Boston Globe and Newsday and legislative intern for the Sears Congressional Internship program.