Mike Ranen

Primary Responsibilities

• Academic (non-faculty) hiring and personnel
• Classrooms and academic spaces (including faculty office assignments)
• Lab instructor review and support
• Operating budgets, departmental endowments, and science-related endowments
• Accessibility Task Force Committee
• Committee on Teaching and Classroom Practice
• Calendar Committee
• Capital Renewal, equipment, and technology budget management
• Assessment and reaccreditation
• Research Oversight (Institutional Official)
• Inclusion initiatives
• Liaison to academic staff, HR, Facilities, Kent Island, MMUF, and Schiller Coastal Studies Center

Hometown
Salem, Massachusetts

Background
I received my Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences where I studied the chemical composition of meteorites and moon rocks.  Before joining the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, I worked in K-12 schools and held leadership positions in Student Affairs at Harvard University and Bowdoin.