Caldwell Welcomes Dean for the new Center for Graduate and Continuing Studies
Caldwell
College has announced the appointment of Dennis R. DeLong, Ph.D. as dean
of the new Center for Graduate and Continuing Studies.
Dr. DeLong brings to Caldwell over 30 years of experience in higher education as an administrator or faculty member. He was previously Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the School of Graduate and Continuing Education at Marist College.
Caldwell College has created the new Center for Graduate and Continuing Studies to better meet the needs of all of the College’s adult students. Paul Douillard, Ph.D., Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs at Caldwell, said Dr. DeLong’s “extensive experience with adult students at all levels of collegiate work will be invaluable as we begin this new initiative.” Douillard said the College has “seen an increasing number of students enrolling in undergraduate coursework as either prerequisites for graduate programs or to gain a better foundation for graduate coursework,” and that the College “will be better prepared to service these students using this model of a single Center.”
Dr. DeLong said he is very excited and proud to have been selected as
the inaugural dean of Caldwell College's new Center for Graduate and Continuing
Studies. “This position provides me with the opportunity
to apply the knowledge and experience I have accumulated in my 30+
years in higher education for the benefit of the College's adult
undergraduate and graduate students.”
Among his many other higher education accomplishments, DeLong was Dean
of Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College and Dean of University
College for Chapman University in Orange, CA. He also worked as Deputy
Chief Academic Officer and Interim Chief Academic Officer with the Connecticut
State University System Office in Hartford. Dr. DeLong served as Assistant
Professor of Political Science at the SUNY College at Plattsburgh where
he taught a variety of courses on national and state politics. Dr. DeLong
has written a number of articles and professional papers on nontraditional
learning, internships and public policy in New York State. He taught part-time
in Empire State College’s graduate program in policy studies and
also served as an adjunct professor at the University at Albany, the College
of St. Rose and Russell Sage College.
Dr. DeLong earned a BA in Secondary Social Studies from SUNY College at Cortland and attended graduate school at the University at Albany (Rockefeller College of Public Policy) earning an MA and Ph.D. in Political Science.