Mike Ranen
Associate Dean for Academic Administration
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
Education
I received my BA in Chemistry from Haverford College. I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University in Earth and Planetary Sciences where I studied the chemical composition of meteorites to understand the formation of the Solar System.
