Brian Clifford Rosenberg is an American academic administrator and a scholar on

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. He is currently employed as the president-in-residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, following his retirement from the position of

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. In addition to these positions, he served on the board of trustees of the Dickens Society from 2000 to 2004. In 2014, the Teagle Foundation announced his appointment to their Board of Directors. A native of New York City, Rosenberg received his B.A. degree from

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and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from

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. He has published numerous articles on Dickens and other subjects as well as two books: ''Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet: The Price of Freedom'' (1991) and ''Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens'' (1996). Rosenberg began his academic career as an adjunct assistant professor of

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at the Cooper Union in New York City in 1982. He worked at

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in Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1998 as an English professor and as chair of the English Department and participated in the development of the college's

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. From 1998 to 2003, Rosenberg was

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of the faculty and an English professor at

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. While in this position, he was responsible for all academic programs, athletics, the library, instructional technology and the Lawrence University art gallery. He directed the design and passage of the university's first new general education requirements in 15 years, created the college's first

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program for new faculty and wrote the long-range faculty staffing plan. Rosenberg became the 16th president of Macalester College in August 2003. During his 17-year tenure, Rosenberg faced some criticism from the student body and alumni for his salary, which ranked within the top ten highest in America for a college president. He led a number of fundraising campaigns for the college, such as the Macalester Moment campaign, and oversaw the construction and renovation of several buildings on campus, including the Leonard Center Athletics and Wellness Complex, Markim Hall, and the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. He remained politically outspoken during this time, writing articles on the politics involved in higher education and responding freely to current events in newsletters and statements to the student body. In 2019, Rosenberg announced that he planned to retire from the position of President at the end of the academic year in 2020; he was succeeded in the position by Dr.

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. In fall of 2020, he will begin working as president-in-residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Profile at Minnesota Public Knowledge BaseProfile at Harvard Graduate School of Education
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