Claremont Graduate University Appoints Health Care Economist Deborah A. Freund as President
Claremont, CA, July 16, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Professor Deborah A. Freund has been appointed the 15th president of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) by the university’s Board of Trustees. Freund will be the first woman to serve as president of the California university.
Freund was vice chancellor and provost at Syracuse University from 1999-2006, and has held the title of Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Economics from Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs since 2004. In addition to her faculty position at the Maxwell School, she is also a senior research associate at the school’s Center for Policy Research.
“To be asked to lead an educational institution of such distinction and accomplishment as CGU in these changing times for higher education is a challenge and a privilege,” said Freund. “Meeting such challenges going forward will be possible because of the dedication, talent, and enthusiasm of CGU’s trustees, faculty, students, alumni, and staff. CGU's pacesetting record of transdisciplinary research and teaching mirrors what I have also been committed to during my 30 years in the academy. More importantly, this perspective is not only central to our success in the university, but to finding the best ways of approaching and solving the complex problems we all face in the world today.”
She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan in economics, an MA in applied economics and MPH in medical care administration from the same institution. Trained as a health-care administrator, Freund also holds the rank of adjunct professor of pediatrics and orthopaedic surgery at Upstate Medical University, State University of New York. She received her bachelor’s degree in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973.
Freund came to Syracuse University from Indiana University Bloomington (IU) where she was vice chancellor and dean of the faculties, and special advisor to the president and vice president of the IU System on Academic Affairs for five years. While at IU, Freund also served as chair of the Health Sciences and Administration Faculty in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs from 1988-1992; as associate dean from 1992-1994; and director of the Bowen Research Center, whose participating scholars conducted health policy and health services research at IU from 1989-1999. From 1985-1988, Freund was the director of the Program on Health Economics and Finance at the Health Services Research Center, director of the PhD Program in Health Policy and Administration, and director of the Clinical Economics Training Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At a date to be determined, Freund will be joined by her spouse, the renowned labor economist Thomas J. Kniesner, the Krisher Professor of Economics and a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse. He will bring his considerable expertise to CGU’s School of Politics and Economics as a university professor. Freund and Kniesner have a son, William, who is 15 years old.
Freund will be completing responsibilities in her role at Syracuse University over the next few months and will formally take office in Claremont in the fall. Current Interim President Joseph C. Hough will continue until Freund’s arrival in Claremont.
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Freund was vice chancellor and provost at Syracuse University from 1999-2006, and has held the title of Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Economics from Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs since 2004. In addition to her faculty position at the Maxwell School, she is also a senior research associate at the school’s Center for Policy Research.
“To be asked to lead an educational institution of such distinction and accomplishment as CGU in these changing times for higher education is a challenge and a privilege,” said Freund. “Meeting such challenges going forward will be possible because of the dedication, talent, and enthusiasm of CGU’s trustees, faculty, students, alumni, and staff. CGU's pacesetting record of transdisciplinary research and teaching mirrors what I have also been committed to during my 30 years in the academy. More importantly, this perspective is not only central to our success in the university, but to finding the best ways of approaching and solving the complex problems we all face in the world today.”
She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan in economics, an MA in applied economics and MPH in medical care administration from the same institution. Trained as a health-care administrator, Freund also holds the rank of adjunct professor of pediatrics and orthopaedic surgery at Upstate Medical University, State University of New York. She received her bachelor’s degree in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973.
Freund came to Syracuse University from Indiana University Bloomington (IU) where she was vice chancellor and dean of the faculties, and special advisor to the president and vice president of the IU System on Academic Affairs for five years. While at IU, Freund also served as chair of the Health Sciences and Administration Faculty in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs from 1988-1992; as associate dean from 1992-1994; and director of the Bowen Research Center, whose participating scholars conducted health policy and health services research at IU from 1989-1999. From 1985-1988, Freund was the director of the Program on Health Economics and Finance at the Health Services Research Center, director of the PhD Program in Health Policy and Administration, and director of the Clinical Economics Training Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At a date to be determined, Freund will be joined by her spouse, the renowned labor economist Thomas J. Kniesner, the Krisher Professor of Economics and a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse. He will bring his considerable expertise to CGU’s School of Politics and Economics as a university professor. Freund and Kniesner have a son, William, who is 15 years old.
Freund will be completing responsibilities in her role at Syracuse University over the next few months and will formally take office in Claremont in the fall. Current Interim President Joseph C. Hough will continue until Freund’s arrival in Claremont.
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