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Rosen named first master of Whitman College
Posted September 21, 2005; 07:00 a.m.
Economics professor Harvey Rosen has been named the first master of Whitman College, which will open as Princeton's sixth residential college in fall 2007.
Rosen, the John Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy,
has been a Princeton faculty member since 1974. He recently returned to
the University after taking leave in 2003 to serve on President Bush's
Council of Economic Advisers, first as a member and later as chair.
Rosen officially begins his position as Whitman master on July 1, 2007,
but his appointment was made at this time to allow him to participate
in residential college planning and policy discussions and to begin
assembling the Whitman staff. A faculty member serves as the head of
each of Princeton's residential colleges, working closely with the
college staffs to build supportive communities and to devise programs
and activities to extend education beyond the classroom.
The construction of Whitman is part of a major reorganization of
Princeton's residential college system and will enable an increase in
the undergraduate student body from roughly 4,700 to 5,200 under a plan
approved by the University's trustees in 2000.
Princeton currently has a system of five two-year residential colleges.
With the new system, three of the six colleges (Whitman, Mathey and
Butler) will house students from all four classes, increasing
opportunities for interaction across all the classes and allowing
juniors and seniors to take fuller advantage of the colleges' academic,
social and cultural offerings. Each of the other three colleges
(Forbes, Rockefeller and Wilson) will be paired with a four-year
college, and all the colleges will include graduate students in
residence.
Rosen was a member of the Four-Year College Program Planning Committee,
helping to develop the blueprint for the new system. His appointment as
Whitman master was announced by Nancy Malkiel, dean of the college, and
Kathleen Deignan, dean of undergraduate students.
"Professor Rosen clearly combines qualities that make for outstanding
success in residential college masterships: excellence in undergraduate
teaching; experience and skill in administration; an ample measure of
level-headedness and sound judgment; imagination and enthusiasm about
the possibilities for education in a residential setting; and obvious
enjoyment of students," the announcement said.
Rosen's research and teaching focuses on public finance, covering
topics such as federal taxation, state and local governmental finance,
housing policy and labor study. He served as chair of the Department of
Economics from 1993 to 1996 and has been co-director of the Center for
Economic Policy Studies since 1993.
Rosen received a President's Award for Distinguished Teaching from the
University in 2003. He also won the economics department's Richard
Quandt Teaching Prize in 1999 and held the Cotsen Faculty Fellowship,
an honor accorded to faculty recognized as outstanding teachers of
undergraduates, from 2001 to 2004.
Whitman College is being designed in a collegiate gothic style by
Demetri Porphyrios, a Princeton graduate alumnus, and will provide
dormitory, dining, social, cultural, educational and recreational space
for 500 undergraduates and 10 graduate students.