A 30+ year veteran of higher ed, with 20 years of university senior leadership experience, Rosowsky is both passionate about and deeply committed to promoting the power, potential, and bold futures of our great public universities. In July 2024, he joined Arizona State University as Senior Advisor to the President. At ASU, he also serves as Senior Fellow of the University Design Institute and Foundation Professor of Engineering. Rosowsky served previously as Vice President for Research at Kansas State University, Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of Vermont, Dean of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and as Head of the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. He writes and speaks about higher ed, leadership, governance, and change management.

David Rosowsky’s writing on higher ed challenges and opportunities has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, University Business, AGB Trusteeship magazine, and several other publication and media outlets.

He is a frequent contributor to Forbes.com having authored more than 50 articles since 2020. Rosowsky writes through the lens of a hopeful optimist, as a strategic realist and someone who understands how universities function, evolve, and succeed.

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