Bruce Kingma (born October 4, 1961) is an American

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and academic

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, who since 1988 has taught and worked in the

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, and

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. Kingma is a pioneer in experiential entrepreneurship education and community engagement and his work cover topics ranging from academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and religion,

information economics Information economics or the economics of information is the branch of microeconomics that studies how information and information systems affect an economy and economic decisions. One application considers information embodied in certain types o ...

, online education, community engagement,

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, and

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management. He is currently working as a

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Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

, with joint appointments in the

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and School of Information Studies. He is the former Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2007-2013) and the former

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of the iSchool (2000-2007),

Early life and education

Kingma attended

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. In 1983, Kingma graduated from the

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with a

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degree in Economics with honors. Kingma then moved to

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to pursue a PhD in economics from the

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and graduated in 1989.

Career

Academic

Bruce Kingma is currently working as a professor at

in the

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and School of Management. Kingma started his career as an

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at the

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in the Department of Economics. He then moved to Albany to work as

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for the School of Information Science and Policy at the

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. While at the University of Albany, he also worked as an Interim Director of Interdisciplinary

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. Program in

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(1996-1997) and as a

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of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in

(1997-2000). As the inaugural director of the bachelor’s program in

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, Kingma increased course enrollments from 20 to 1600 students within a period of 3 years. Bruce Kingma joined

in the year 2000, as the

of the School of Information Studies. He also founded the WISE education consortium - a partnership of 15 universities worldwide committed to quality

online education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...

. Under his leadership, programs and initiatives like The Web-based Information Science Education Consortium (WISE). In 2007, Kingma served as the Provost for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Community Engagement at Syracuse University, a title which he held for 6 years. Major programs started under Provost Kingma’s leadership raised over $350m in external funding. These includ
The Raymond von Dran Innovation and Disruptive Entrepreneurship AcceleratorRvD Student Sandbox Incubator
IDS Lean-Startup courses,

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, The Near West Side Initiative, The Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities
StartUp New York, Engagement Scholars and Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows, The Connective Corridor
The Janklow Arts Leadership ProgramThe South Side Innovation Center
The South Side Initiative, The New York State Business Plan Competition, Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, The Syracuse University Entrepreneurship Club, and The Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Learning Community. From 2010 to 2013, Kingma was a contributor to the

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-funded Lib-Value project measuring the return on investment of

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Entrepreneurial

Bruce Kingma is the founder of the award-winning WISE Consortium in 2002 which was the first international consortium of universities in online education.

Research

From 2007-2012, Kingma produced the “Syracuse Campus-Community Entrepreneurship Initiative: Transforming Campus and Community Culture to Foster Entrepreneurial Development in the Region.”

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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kauffman Foundation) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, private foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1966 by Ewing Marion Kauffman, who had previously founded the drug company M ...

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($3,000,000). From 2006-2009, Kingma produced the “WISE+: Leveraging the Power of the Network to Increase the Diversity of LIS Curriculum” Principal Investigator. (joint proposal with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the

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. ($936,338). From 2004-2006, Kingma produced the “WISE: Web-based Information Science Education. An Online Consortial Initiative to Build Multi-Institutional Capacity for Library and Information Science Education.” Principal Investigator (joint proposal with the U niversity of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), Institute for Museum and Library Services,

. ($713,492).

Awards and honors

Kingma received the

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Award for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning, Effective Practice Award in 2006. In 2007, Syracuse University received the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. In 2008, Kingma received the American Distance Education Consortium National Award for Excellence in Distance Education. In 2009, Kingma received the Community Entrepreneurial Leadership Award. In 2011, Kingma received the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. In 2015, Kingma received the Deshpande Foundation Award for Excellence in Curriculum Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education. In 2018, Syracuse University received the National Model Program Award from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Bibliography

Books

* Academic Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement. Edited. Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc. (August 2011). * Assessing Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery Services. With Mary Jackson, Tom Delany. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries (2004). * The Economics of Information: A Guide to Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals. Second Edition. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. (January 2001). * The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment. edited by Meredith Butler and Bruce Kingma. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries (1996). Also published as an issue of The Journal of Library Administration. 26:1/2 (1998) and as a monograph by Haworth Press (1999). * The Economics of Access versus Ownership to Scholarly Information, with Suzanne Irving, Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press, Inc. (1996). Also published as an issue of Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply. 6:3 (1996). * The Economics of Information: A Guide to Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. (1996). Also translated and published in Chinese by Ma Jei Cheng, University of Wuhan (1999).

Publications

Economics

* Bruce Kingma(1995
Do Profits Crowd-out Donations? or Vice Versa?: The Impact of Revenue from Sales on Donations at the American Red Cross.
Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Vol. 6:1 * Bruce Kingma(1995
Public Radio Stations are Really, Really Not Public Goods.
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol. 66:1 * Bruce Kingma(1993
Portfolio Theory and Nonprofit Financial Stability
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 22:2 * Bruce Kingma (1989
''An Accurate Measurement of the Crowd Out Effect, Income Effect and Price Effect for Charitable Contributions.''
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 97:5.

Library and Information Management

* Bruce Kingma, Philip Eppard (1992
Journal Price Escalation and the Market for Information: The Librarian's Solution.
College & Research Libraries, Vol. 53:6 * Bruce Kingma (1995) The Opportunity Costs of Faculty Status for Academic Librarians. College & Research Libraries, Vol. 56:3 * Bruce Kingma (1998
''The Economics of Access Versus Ownership: The Costs and Benefits of Access to Scholarly Articles Via Interlibrary Loan and Journal Subscriptions.''
Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 26:1–2. * Bruce Kingma, Kathleen McClure (2015
Lib-Value: Values, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries, Phase III: ROI of the Syracuse University Library
College & Research Libraries * Bruce Kingma (2001

Second Edition. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.

Online Education

* Bruce Kingma, Kathleen Schisa (2010
''WISE Economics: ROI of Quality and Consortiums.''
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. Vol. 51:1. *Bruce Kingma (2008
The Economics of Learner Centered Online Education.
World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council. * Stacey Keefe, Bruce Kingma (2006)
An Analysis of the Virtual Classroom: Does Size Matter? Do Residencies Make a Difference? Should you Hire that Instructional Designer?
' Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. Vol. 47:2.

Entrepreneurship

*Bruce Kingma (2014
Creating a Dynamic Campus-Community Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Key Characteristics of Success.
Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth: Academic Entrepreneurship, Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. *Bruce Kingma (2014
University-wide Entrepreneurship Education
Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth. *Bruce Kingma (2014
Religion, Entrepreneurship, Income and Employment.
International Journal of Social Sciences and Management. Vol. 1: 1 * Bruce Kingma (2011

Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.

Membership and Associations

Kingma has been on the Board of Directors (2016-2017) of th
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
He was also a member of the External Review Panel (2004-2017) of the

American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members a ...

, Committee on Accreditation. He has been an iCorps Program Reviewer (2012-2017) for the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

References

External links

Raymond von Dran IDEA Student Sandbox named No. 3 college business incubator

Stacey Keefe appointed executive director of RvD IDEA

National Leadership Grants for Libraries
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