Mark B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Chancellor
State University System of Florida
Mark Rosenberg is Chancellor of the State University System of Florida. As Chancellor, he leads a system of 11 public universities with more than 300,000 students and an $8 billion annual budget, including nearly $1.5 billion in sponsored research. He has overall responsibility for system strategy, policy and finance, and works closely with state and federal legislators to secure funding for system priorities.
Prior to his appointment as Chancellor in November 2005, Dr. Rosenberg served as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Florida International University for more than 7 years (1998-2005). He was also named FIU’s Acting President by the Florida Board of Regents and carried out both responsibilities January-July 1999.
As Provost, he played a key role in FIU’s successful efforts to establish a law school (2002) and a medical school (2006). While he was Provost, FIU was invited to join Phi Beta Kappa and achieved Carnegie Research I status. He restructured tenure and promotion guidelines, raised faculty salaries, improved faculty governance through an enhanced role and visibility for the Faculty Senate, and played a major role in developing a new state-of-the-art nano-materials laboratory in the College of Engineering. He was an early architect of the plan for FIU’s School of Hospitality Management campus in Tianjin, China.
Dr. Rosenberg initiated his academic career at FIU in 1976 as an assistant professor of political science. He served as founding director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center (1979)—one of the United States’ premier research centers in the region, where he raised millions of dollars from the Federal government, private foundations and individual donors to underwrite program expansion, faculty travel, library acquisitions, graduate stipends and a state-of-the-art web-based information system on the region’s movement toward hemispheric integration.
Dr. Rosenberg was recognized for his efforts by being named Chair of the XV Congress of the Latin American Studies Association held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1989. He subsequently served as founding dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at FIU, and as Vice Provost for International Studies. He has been a visiting professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey (Estado de Mexico campus) and was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Central America in the early 1980s.
Dr. Rosenberg is a 1971 graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. While at Miami, he was asked to co-chair the university-wide student United Way Campaign (the Miami Chest). He received his Ph.D. in political science (comparative politics) and a graduate certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, studied and lived in Mexico (Cuernavaca and Mexico City), and is nearly bilingual in Spanish.
Dr. Rosenberg has written or co-edited seven books and numerous scholarly articles. His latest book, "The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility", is a Harvard University project co-authored with Luis Guillermo Solis of Costa Rica. It was published by Routledge (New York & London) in 2007.
A member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Rosenberg has testified numerous times before Congress and has served as a consultant to the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has been a frequent source for the national and international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald and Univisión, and he has served on the board of editors of Latin Trade, and Florida Trend. He is a past member of the selection board of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Journalism based at Columbia University. He currently is a book review leader for the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dr. Rosenberg is active in state economic development issues and served as a member of the leadership team of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce for nearly a decade. He is now active in the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and is working with the Chamber, the Florida Association of Industries, Enterprise Florida and the Florida Council of 100 to build a university-business coalition to improve Florida’s global competitiveness.
The State University System of Florida comprises 11 institutions – the University of Florida, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, the University of South Florida, the University of Central Florida, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, the University of West Florida, the University of North Florida, Florida Gulf Coast University and New College of Florida.
The Florida Board of Governors is the constitutional body created by voters in 2002 to provide leadership and coordination of Florida’s public universities.
Dr. Rosenberg and his wife of 34 years, Rosalie, reside in Tallahassee. His son, Benjamin, and daughter, Ginelle, are students at Florida International University.
Mark B. Rosenberg, Chancellor
State University System of Florida
325 W. Gaines Street, # 1614
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Phone: (850) 245-0466
Fax: (850) 245-9685
Email: Chancellor@flbog.edu
