  Dr. Michael Schwartz |
Michael Schwartz is currently serving as President of Cleveland State University. Dr. Schwartz is President Emeritus and Trustees? Professor at Kent State University where he teaches graduate courses in higher education administration and in statistical methods.
Dr. Schwartz is a native Chicagoan who received three degrees from the University of Illinois: a Bachelor in Science in psychology (1958), a masters in labor and industrial relations (1959) and a Ph.D. in sociology (1962). He began his career in academics at Wayne State University, later moved to Indiana University at Bloomington, and then moved to Florida Atlantic University as Chair of the Department of Sociology. He then served as Dean of the College of Social Science at Florida Atlantic before moving to Kent State in 1976 as Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research. Dr. Schwartz served as Acting President of the university briefly in 1977, and then as Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs. He was given the title "Provost" in 1980 and then became President of Kent State University in 1982 and served in that capacity until 1991.
Dr. Schwartz has published in the area of Social Psychology of Adolescent Deviant Behavior and, with Sheldon Stryker, was the author of the first monograph published by the American Sociological Association in the Arnold and Carolyn Rose Monograph Series. More recently, he has published papers on higher education issues. He has served as a trustee of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Central State University. He is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Consultant-Evaluator Corps, where he is a member of their Accreditation Review Council. He has also served on the Association of Governing Boards? Commission on Strengthening the Academic Presidency, and he was recently named Distinguished Alumnus of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Youngstown State University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities has given him its Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Schwartz is married to Dr. Joanne Rand Schwartz, Dean of the College and Graduate School of Education at Kent State University. They reside in Kent, Ohio.
