Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2003
Brian C. Rosenberg, dean of the faculty since 1998, has accepted the presidency of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and began serving in that role on August 4.
Like Lawrence, Macalester is a national liberal arts college and a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. It was founded in 1874 and has a full-time enrollment of 1,795 students. Rosenberg succeeds Michael S. McPherson, who left Macalester after seven years as president to become president of the Spencer Foundation in Chicago.
As dean of the faculty, Rosenberg directed the design and passage of Lawrence’s first new general education requirements in 15 years, created the first mentoring program for new faculty, and wrote the long-range faculty staffing plan. A Charles Dickens scholar, he is the author of two books, Mary Lee Settle’s Beulah Quintet: The Price of Freedom and Little Dorrit’s Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Dickens Society in 2000.
In a memo to the Lawrence community, President Richard Warch said, “Brian has served Lawrence admirably and with distinction, and we will miss his insight, energy, and commitment in service to the college and its academic mission. Working with him has been a genuine pleasure, and I will miss his counsel, good humor, and assistance.”
President Warch has announced that Kathleen M. Murray, dean of the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, will serve as dean of the faculty for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 academic years.