Robert Bruininks
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Robert H. Bruininks (born February 22, 1942) was inaugurated as President of the University of Minnesota on February 28, 2003, after serving as Executive Vice President and Provost for five years. Beginning with his initial appointment as assistant professor of educational psychology in 1968, he has been on the faculty of the University for more than 30 continuous years. His administrative leadership includes nine years of departmental administration and, most recently, six years as Dean of the University’s College of Education and Human Development.
President Bruininks's commitment to research and outreach at the University is reflected in his personal efforts to develop centers, consortia, and programs. He founded and co-founded several research-interdisciplinary education-outreach centers, including the National Center on Educational Outcomes, the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Living, and the Institute on Community Integration.
President Bruininks has provided significant leadership in relationship to the research and knowledge transfer responsibilities of a public land-grant university. A constant theme of his work in this area has been assisting public and private agencies with improving educational, human service, and social service policies and programs at the local, state, national, and international levels. As dean, he has strengthened the focus coherence, and impact of the college’s research and outreach programs through academic units and centers in major areas of K-12 educational reform, performance standards and accountability, and Minnesota Reads (a K-2 early literacy initiative involving faculty and colleges students in the schools). From 1974-76, while on leave from the University of Minnesota to the State Planning Agency, Dr. Bruininks served as Director of the Developmental Disabilities Office of the Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities.
As a professor, President Bruininks made substantial contributions to University research and teaching programs. He served as principal investigator on over 22 million dollars in grants and contracts secured from different federal and state agencies to support research, teaching and outreach programs. He authored or coauthored nearly 90 journal articles and over 70 chapters on issues of educational and human service research and policy, and several nationally standardized published tests and educational and training materials. He also advised over 70 MA and Ph.D. students to completion of their degrees.
President Bruininks has been honored with numerous awards and special recognitions. He held a Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellowship from 1981 to 1984. He was the first recipient of the Emma M. Birkmaier Professorship in Educational Leadership, which he held from 1991-1994. He was elected President of the American Association on Mental Retardation (an interdisciplinary professional association including over 9,000 members in medicine, allied health, psychology, education, rehabilitation and social work) in 1990-91. Among other awards he has received are the 1996 Education Award from the American Association on Mental Retardation and the 1991 Educator of the Year Award from PACER of Minneapolis. He has been elected to Fellow status in the American Association on Mental Retardation, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society.
President Bruininks is a graduate of Western Michigan University and earned his MA and Ph.D. from George Peabody College (now of Vanderbilt University). He and his wife, Dr. Susan Andrea Hagstrum, are the parents of three grown sons.
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| Preceded by Mark Yudof |
President of the University of Minnesota 2002 – Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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