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Dean's Bio
SUSAN J. SCHURMAN (Ph.D., Michigan) is Dean of the University College Community and Director of Life-Long Learning for the Division of Continuous Education. Dr. Schurman joined Rutgers's School of Management and Labor Relations in 2007 after serving since 1997 as president of the National Labor College, which she founded. This fully accredited college is one of the few institutions of higher education in the world founded and sponsored by a labor movement (the A.F.L.-C.I.O.). During her tenure at the National Labor College, Dr. Schurman secured a $1 million grant from the Kellogg Foundation to create a system of partnerships among the NLC, community colleges, and apprentice programs so that workers would not encounter obstacles in their pursuit of higher education. She originated one of the most extensive distance-education degree programs in the nation. Currently Dr. Schurman serves as Vice President of the International Federation of Workers Education Associations and as chair of the Academic and Student Services Committee of the Board of Trustees of Morris Brown College, a historically black college in Atlanta. Dean Schurman will give special attention to the adult non-traditional students and, in her work with the Division of Continuous Education, to the ways in which Rutgers may better serve students whose schedules allow them little time to come to campus. She is not new to the Rutgers community, having been a member of the SMLR faculty from 1992-1997. We are very pleased to welcome her back. |
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