The Dominion Post
Daniel Bernstine
Daniel Bernstine, 59, has been president of Portland State University since August 1997.
Portland State has about 24,000 students, 2,049 faculty, a budget of $429.7 million, and research expenditures of $40 million, according to the PSU Web site.
Before coming to PSU, Bernstine served as dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1990-’97. He served as general counsel of Howard University from 1987-’90 and also as the interim dean of Howard University Law School from 1988-’90.
Bernstine graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. degree in 1969, from the Northwestern University School of Law with a J.D. degree in 1972, and received his LL.M. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1975. He received Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999, and from Waseda University, one of the top two private universities in Japan, in 2003. Bernstine was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree from Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University, in Russia, in 2004.
In 2005, Bernstine was awarded the Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award in recognition of his work in internationalization in higher education. He was given the International Citizen Award by the Oregon Consular Corps in 2004.
>From 1972-’73, Bernstine was a staff attorney with the Office of the Solicitor at the U.S. Department of Labor, and from 1974-’75, he was the William H. Hastie Teaching Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. From 1975-’78, Bernstine was assistant professor at Howard University Law School. He joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in 1978 and was on leave from Wisconsin while serving as general counsel and interim law school dean at Howard.
Among other schools, Bernstine has been a visiting law professor at the Inter-American Comparative Law Institute at the University of Havana Law School, in Havana, Cuba, and Justus-Liebig-Universitat in Giessen, Germany.
He has served as a member of the National Conference of Bar Examiners Multi-State Torts Drafting Committee and the American Law Institute. He has served on the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Accreditation, and the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners.
Bernstine has also been involved in Portland organizations such as the United Way of Columbia-Willamette.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Bernstine’s annual salary is about $340,000. He also receives about $50,000 toward his retirement. His total compensation is $390,000.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Mike S. Garrison
Mike Garrison, 38, a native of Fairmont and the only finalist working in West Virginia, resigned Wednesday as chair of the Higher Education Policy Commission, a position he was named to in July 2006.
The commission is responsible for developing, establishing and overseeing the implementation of a public-policy agenda for the state’s fouryear colleges and universities — including WVU. State law would have required Garrison to step down as chair if he was named WVU president. Garrison said he resigned prior to this week’s announcement that he is a candidate to avoid the appearance of any impropriety.
According to the state Auditor’s Office, Garrison received no state salary for this job.
He is a lawyer and the managing partner for the Morgantown office of Spilman, Thomas and Battle, PLLC, which has offices in West Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Garrison is registered as a lobbyist with the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office. His clients include companies in the Morgantown area such as Mylan Laboratories and Platinum Properties. Two members of the WVU Board of Governors are on the board of directors at Centra Bank, another of Garrison’s clients.
Garrison received a bachelor’s degree in political science and English literature from WVU in 1992. He served his alma mater as student body president. Garrison spent a year in England as a Rotary Scholar at Oxford, then returned to Morgantown to attend the WVU College of Law, which he graduated from in 1996. He teaches “Politics in West Virginia” at the university, though he is not teaching this semester. Garrison said he does not draw a salary for teaching this course.
Garrison’s public service experiences include work as a legislative assistant for both Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, D-W.Va.
Garrison was a member of former Gov. Bob Wise’s administration when he was appointed cabinet secretary of the Department of Tax and Revenue, in January 2001. In May 2001, Garrison became the governor’s chief of staff, a position he held until October 2003. Wise later appointed him to serve as a member of the commission in 2003. Garrison was a member of Joe Manchin’s transition team when he was elected West Virginia governor, in 2004.
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M. Duane Nellis
Nellis, 52, became Kansas State University’s provost in June 2004, after serving for seven years at WVU as dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
As provost, Nellis serves as chief academic officer of Kansas State, which has more than 23,000 students, 1,500 faculty, a budget of more than $683 million and research funding that exceeds $197 million. Nellis said he earns $220,000 a year as provost.
Nellis also serves as a representative of the president and in place of the president during his absence.
At WVU, Nellis led a capital fundraising campaign, oversaw the planning and construction of a $50 million Life Sciences building, and established a new Center for Writing Excellence and a Math Learning Institute.
Nellis completed his Ph.D. in geography from Oregon State University in 1980 and accepted his first academic appointment at KSU. Prior to his departure in 1997 for WVU, Nellis served as head of Kansas State’s department of geography, and then senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, according to WVU News and Information Services.
Nellis recently served as president of the Association of American Geographers, one of the largest professional geography organizations in the world. He is past president of the National Council for Geographic Education, past president of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the International Geographic Honor Society, past president of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, and serves as an executive committee member of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges Chief Academic Officers.
Nellis is recognized for his research using satellite data and geographic information systems to analyze various dimensions of the Earth’s land surface, according to WVU News and Information Services. This research has been funded by grants totaling more than $3 million from sources such as NASA and National Geographic Society.
He has been recognized through numerous awards, such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Honors from the Association of American Geographers and the AAG’s John Fraser Hart Award for Excellence in Research,
At WVU, he received the Neil S. Bucklew Award for Social Justice in 2003 and the University’s Leadership Award for Safety in 2002. He is also an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key National Honor Society.
Nellis completed his undergraduate degree at Montana State University before pursuing his graduate work at Oregon State University.