Mark R. Nemec (born in

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) is an American educator. He is the ninth person and first layperson to serve as the president of the

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. Nemec was previously the Dean of the

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at the

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Education

Nemec graduated from Loyola High School of Los Angeles in 1987. He received his bachelor's degree in English, ''

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'', from

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in 1991, where he was a member of the

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team and an All-Ivy League rugby player. Nemec then earned a master's degree in education with a concentration on higher education and public policy and a doctorate degree in political science from the

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in 2000, where he was awarded a Regents Fellowship and a Rackham Dissertation Fellowship.

Career

Nemec served as the Dean of the

from 2014 to 2017. Prior to entering academia, Nemec served as the President and CEO of Eduventures, an information services firm providing research and advice to the higher education community, from 2011 to 2014. From 2005 to 2011, he served as Managing Director of the Technology Industry Client Group at

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, where he headed the Forrester Leadership Boards program and managed executive and peer-to-peer learning programs in the Americas. From 2000 to 2005, Nemec served as Senior Director at the Advisory Board Company. Nemec is a frequent speaker on the current and future state of higher education and has presented to a diverse array of audiences including the White House’s Forum on College Affordability, the British Council’s Going Global, the New England Board of Higher Education’s Summit on Cost in Higher Education, and university faculty forums. Earlier in his career, Nemec taught American politics as a visiting assistant professor at

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and served as a policy advisor on technology and development to the Chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Bibliography

Nemec is the author of ''Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State'' (University of Michigan Press, 2006), chronicling the role of higher education in American political development. He also contributed an essay to ''The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson'' (University of Virginia Press, 2012) entitled ''The Underappreciated Legacy: Wilson, Princeton, and the Ideal of the American State''.

References

External links

Fairfield University profile
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