New Director of Graduate and Extended Studies Named
August 23, 2016 Categories: Community, Graduate, News Release, Slider
Joanne Bruno, J.D., provost and vice president of academic affairs at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (ESU), announced the appointment of William J. Bajor, Ph.D. as the director of graduate and extended studies.
Dr. Bajor comes to ESU from New Jersey City University (NJCU) where he most recently served as the acting director of the division of professional and lifelong learning. In this role he developed new revenue streams for NJCU, aligned University training programs with the State of New Jersey’s economic development priorities and increased the number of NJCU’s strategic and innovative community and business partnerships. The division of professional and lifelong learning included NJCU’s Continuing Education unit, which Bajor previously oversaw along with graduate studies. In that role he supervised the administration of admission, registration, matriculation, scheduling, advisement and graduation/completion policies governing graduate and continuing education students.
As director of graduate and extended studies at ESU, Bajor will provide leadership within graduate and professional studies in order to establish and maintain excellent academic programs. He will plan and implement educational policies and curricula, provide leadership in creating, developing, and implementing programs and initiatives which serve the educational and training needs for Pennsylvania’s industry leaders and public agencies and identify the programs and courses that will best serve the needs and interests of students and faculty. He will also oversee the Lehigh Valley Center. Located in Bethlehem, PA, the Lehigh Valley Center offers accelerated undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
Bajor earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from New York University, a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Saint Andrews, United Kingdom and LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
For more information about ESU’s graduate and extended learning programs, contact Dr. Bajor at 570-422-3926.
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