Wachtel Distinguished Teaching Professor for the Study of Nonviolent Social Change. In 2009, he received the American Historical Association Eugene Asher National Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1966, he received Hofstra’s Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1998, he was named The Harry H. and the Civil Rights Movement, Intro to Peace and Conflict Studies, History and the News (a 1-credit course he taught this past fall and completed mid-October). Over his 60+ years at Hofstra, he taught seminars in his growing list of specialties: The American Revolution, The Civil War and Reconstruction, Sports and the American Character, The Immigrant in America, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, Martin Luther King, Jr. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Union College and his master’s degree at Columbia University, where he was a Danforth Scholar. Mike’s long list of accomplishments started with a tenure at Hofstra University that began in 1960 and ended with him being the school’s longest-serving faculty member and professor emeritus of history. He lost his battle with heart disease on Novemat the age of 86. “You should always try to do a little bit extra, and offer to do work that is not necessarily assigned to you.Professor, writer, activist, and citizen are just a few of the words that Michael D’Innocenzo used to describe himself.
“You should always be doing the job that you want, and not the job that you have,” Poser said. She never aspired to be a university president, but got to this point by doing what she loves: problem solving. Poser became the ninth president of Hofstra University in 2021 - and its first woman president in its 88-year history. “It’s very important to make sure the work that you’re doing is work that you really want to do, and that you’re not going after jobs for status,” she said Poser is always looking for growth and ways to expand her skills, but she knew she had to keep one thing in mind when expanding her career. She also played a key role in creating two new cultural centers on campus - one focused on Arab American students, and another on students with disabilities. At Illinois, Poser led the acquisition of Chicago’s John Marshall Law School, creating the first and only public attorney school in Chicago. The family moved to Chicago in 2016 where Poser was appointed provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Illinois-Chicago. It was exactly the kind of role Poser never dreamed of, but discovered was perfect for her: leadership, problem-solving, and institution building. Like the potential environmental hazard to birds caused by the release of thousands of helium-filled balloons in the school’s stadium when the first Nebraska points were scored in a football game. This became the perfect opportunity to hone in on her problem-solving skills. It was the chancellor, Harvey Perlman, looking for a new associate to the chancellor.
Poser wasn’t expecting to find herself moving up into the school’s administration, but that changed one day in 2006 when she opened a university-wide email by chance. Two years later, she was the dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law.
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She was appointed by the Nebraska State Bar Association in 2003 to review policies in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, before becoming a full professor of law in 2008. “Only love would have made anyone do that kind of thing.”īut it all came together, and Poser began working at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1994, as a visiting assistant professor of law. “This was a New Yorker moving out to Nebraska with an unwritten dissertation and a 3-week-old baby and no real job,” Poser said. DiMagno had picked up his first job as an assistant chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska while Poser had hoped to finish her juris doctorate from what is now Berkeley Law School at the University of California. “And it was going to surprise me when the plane landed in Cancún.”īut no, it really was Nebraska. ‘‘A little part of me thought that this was actually his idea of a bad joke,” Poser said of her husband in the Hofstra Chronicle.
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