Dr. David J. Fike Named Seventh President of Golden Gate University
(firmenpresse) - SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/04/15 -- of (GGU) announces the appointment of David J. Fike, Ph.D., as its new President, effective August 3, 2015. He succeeds Dr. Dan Angel, who will be retiring after a nine-year tenure.
Dr. Fike is currently the president of , a century-old liberal arts institution in Detroit. He joined Marygrove in 2005, serving as provost for one year before becoming Marygrove''s president. During his nine-year presidential tenure, Dr. Fike provided the strategic vision that recast the college''s legacy as a commitment to develop students'' talents, skills, and dispositions to lead in urban communities and he garnered the resources, including a three-year $1.5M curriculum development grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to support faculty in carrying out this commitment.
"This is an exciting moment in GGU''s long history," said Mark Anderson, Chair of the Golden Gate University Board of Trustees. "Out of a deep pool of highly qualified candidates, Dr. Fike stood out as distinctly qualified to lead GGU at this complex time in the higher education landscape. He possesses the strategic vision, expertise and commitment to learning that will continue to build GGU''s reputation as a century-old leader in practice-based higher education. With his proven leadership skills, Bay Area roots, and commitment to our mission, Dr. Fike is uniquely suited to build those important partnerships with the Board, our faculty and staff, our students and the community that GGU needs to keep growing and thriving."
Dr. Fike is not new to the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to his appointment at Marygrove, he was chief academic officer and dean of faculty at in Oakland, California, a position he held from 1997 until 2005. As chief academic officer, he had oversight of the $6.5M annual Academic Affairs Division budget, all academic programs, campus information technology, library services, student registration processes, learning support resources and advising services. He joined Holy Names in 1992 as a faculty member in economics, teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels and serving as a frequent guest lecturer and presenter on such topics as socially responsible investing, economic revitalization and community development.
"It is a tremendous honor to be entrusted with the presidency of Golden Gate University," Fike said. "I have always believed in the ability of education to transform lives, and I look forward to working with the campus and the local community to champion GGU''s mission and values while developing a brilliant future for the school and thus, its global impact."
In describing his enthusiasm about joining GGU, Dr. Fike describes it as "icing on the cake" that his father -- Thomas L. Fike, a retired attorney and leader of Oakland''s Legal Aid Society in the 1960s -- is a graduate of GGU and past lecturer at the .
Dr. Fike has served as an elected official in Kensington, California, from 1994 to 1998. He has held numerous appointed positions on boards and commissions, including the BioScience Workforce Advisory Team for the City of Oakland, the Life Sciences Task Force of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, the Bay Area''s Community Capital Investment Initiative, the Community Reinvestment Subcommittee of Alameda County''s Economic Development Advisory Board, the City of Oakland''s Sustainable Community Development Commission, the BayTEC Board of Directors, the Board of Directors of AnewAmerica Community Corporation, and the Board of Directors of the Chabot Space and Science Center.
As an economist specializing in capital markets and urban economic development, Dr. Fike has provided consulting services and research in the areas of economic revitalization, sustainable community development practices, capital access in underserved markets, and strategic decision-making. His clients have included the City of Oakland (participating in the development of the Mayor''s Economic Development Strategy, among other projects) and the Community Bank of the Bay, the first de novo community development bank in the western United States.
Dr. Fike also served as part of a team sent to Central America to develop a strategic plan for the establishment of a nationally chartered bank to finance infrastructure projects for El Salvador''s cooperative sector.
In 1995, Dr. Fike was granted a prestigious Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship. As a fellow, he investigated innovative public/private partnerships designing sustainable development strategies for low-income urban communities. He has presented on the topics of socially responsible investing, economic revitalization and community development, and he is the recipient of teaching awards from the University of Maryland, College Park and Holy Names University, as well as a co-author of Everything You Need to Know About Economics (Simon & Schuster, November 1999).
Dr. Fike possesses a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Fike and his wife, Sylvia Rosales-Fike, have three grown children.
GGU, a private nonprofit, has been helping adults achieve their professional goals by providing high-quality, practice-based undergraduate and graduate educational programs in accounting, law, taxation, business and related professions for nearly 115 years. GGU is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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