Formal Education

  • JD – 1976 – Western Law School – Canada
  • Visiting Legal Research Scholar – 1978-1979 – University of Michigan – USA
  • LLM – 1977, PHO – 1985 – Cambridge University – UK
  • Call to the Bar of Ontario – 1981

Legal Employment

  • Assistant Professor of Law – 1979-1982 – University of Windsor Law School – Canada
  • Associate Professor of Law – 1982-1985 – University of Windsor Law School – Canada
  • Associate Dean – 1985-1988 – Western Law School – Canada
  • Dean of Law & Professor of Law – 1989-1995 – Western Law School – Canada
  • Vice-President Administration & Finance & General Counsel – 1996 – 2003 – Western University – Canada

Presidential Employment

  • President and CEO of Ramapo College of New Jersey – 2005-2021

Extra-Curricular Employment

  • Faculty – New President’s Program – 2006 to 2018 – Harvard University – USA
  • Senior Lecturer -Senior University Administrator’s Course -1996-2017 – Center for Higher Education, Research & Development – Canada
  • Consultant to Federal Senate of Canada on Conflict of Interest Policy – On-going

Tribunal Appointments

Extensive experience sitting as a Board of Inquiry under the Ontario Human Rights Code, a Referee under the Employment Standards Act and as an arbitrator in both interest and rights disputes. I have acted as an arbitrator under private sector collective agreements and as a member of the panel of arbitrators approved by the following:

  • Ontario Police Arbitration Commission
  • Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission
  • Ontario Vegetable Producers’ Marketing Board
  • Ontario Motor Vehicle Arbitration Program
  • Canada Post Corporation: Bookmail, Publications Mail Appeals Panel

Public Service

  • Chair Children’s Hospital Board of Directors -1972 – 1974
  • Children’s Hospital Board Member – 1990 – 1998
  • March of Dimes Citizen of the Year – 2015
  • Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International – 2004
  • Huron University College Medal of Distinction – 2016