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Dr. Reid has served as President of Wayne State University (WSU) since November 1997. WSU is a national research university with urban teaching and service missions in metropolitan Detroit. WSU is among the nation’s 21 largest universities and one of only 50 public research institutions nationwide that have achieved Carnegie I designation. WSU has the largest graduate/professional enrollment in Michigan and is among the top five in the country. WSU has the largest single-campus medical school in the nation. Previous to assuming the presidency of Wayne State University, Dr. Reid served for more than eight years as president of Montclair State University, the second largest higher education institution in the State of New Jersey. Over a 10-year period, he also served in a number of capacities at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga including Dean of the School of Business Administration and John Stagmaier Professor of Economics and Business Administration; head of the Department of Marketing and Business Law; and Alan Lorberbaum Professor of Marketing. He has also served as associate professor at Howard University, senior specialist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), consultant to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, assistant professor at Drexel University, and lecturer at Philadelphia College of Art and St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Reid holds graduate degrees in business and applied economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ph.D.). Dr. Reid also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology from Howard University (B.S., M.S.), as well as a certificate in higher education administration from the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. Dr. Reid is also a director of Mack-Cali Real Estate Investment Trust.
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