Wertheim has remained an active alumnus, having served on the board of the Alumni Association for many years, and in 2006, was presented with the Carpe Diem Award by President Susan A. Cole.

Bio as of May 2015

He has extensive background in linguistics and advanced computer algorithms and has leveraged that background as primary inventor of multiple patents and patents pending for D & B worldwide, primarily relating to identity resolution, anomaly detection, geospatial inference and related business processes in various linguistics contexts.

Scriffignano previously served as management consultant for Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group and as corporate controller for Harrison Alloys. He has advised firms in financial services, manufacturing (chemicals and pharmaceuticals) and information technologies. He maintains CPIM certification in production and inventory management from the Association for for Supply Chain Management. He is routinely invited to provide thought leadership for senior executives and high-level government officials globally. Recently, he briefed the US National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and contributed to three separate reports to the President, on Big Data Analytics, Emerging Technologies Strategic Vision, and Internet and Communications Resilience. Additionally, Scriffignano provided expert advice on private sector data officers to a group of state Chief Data Officers and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He provided counsel to members of other public sector constituents worldwide. He also served as a forum panelist and keynote speaker at the World Internet Conference in China hosted by President Xi Jinping and the China Development Forum, as well as other major world events. He was recently published or quoted in various publications including CIO.com, Forbes Insights, Huffington Post, Business Insider, InformationWeek, China Daily, Xinhua, PCWeek Russia, Taiwan News, Bangkok Post, Mint (India), The Hill, and others.

Scriffignano received a BS, cum laude, in Computer Science from Montclair State in 1982 and an MS in Computer Science in 1985. He earned an MBA from Columbia University in 1990 and a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University in 2010. He is one of the founding members of the ����vlog Computer Science Department Advisory Board and is now advising the Department in curriculum issues in big data and data science. He is also a member of the College of Science and Mathematics Advisory Board.

Keizer’s professional career in accounting was spent with the Big Four accounting firm KPMG from 1977 to 2012. He last served as deputy chair and chief operating officer, a position from which he retired in 2012. Keizer’s 25-year affiliation with KPMG includes serving as global head of audit from 2006-2010 and vice chair of audit from 2005-2010 for the U.S. firm. Keizer is a former member of the board of directors of the American Institute of CPAs, which is the most prestigious professional organization for CPAs.

Keizer graduated summa cum laude from ����vlog in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He recently established the Keizer/KPMG Faculty Research Fellowship in the School of Business at ����vlog.

Bio as of May 2015

In his current role as Vice President, Al oversees NewsOne, the ABC News feed service, which provides news content and services to more than 200 ABC affiliates as well as domestic and international partners.  Al also oversees the international distribution of ABC News content.

Al received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Montclair State College.  He serves on the Board of the College of the Arts and the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State.  In 2015, Al was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of the Arts.  He is also a volunteer and member of the Advisory Board at Toni’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen and food ministry of St. Luke’s Church in Montclair.

Al lives in Montclair with his wife Kathie and son Will.

Professor Bensimon’s critical action research agenda has been supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Teagle Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and The James Irvine Foundation. Dr. Bensimon has published extensively about racial equity, organizational learning, practitioner inquiry and change; and her articles have appeared in journals such as the Review of Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education, Liberal Education, and Harvard Educational Review.

Her most recent books include: From Equity Talk to Equity Walk (with Tia Brown McNair and Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux) Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education (co-edited with Ana Martinez-Aleman and Brian Pusser) which was selected as the 2016 Outstanding Publication by the American Education Research Association, Division of Postsecondary Education; Engaging the Race Question: Accountability and Equity in US Higher Education (with Alicia C. Dowd), Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice (co-edited with Lindsey Malcom).

Dr. Bensimon has held the highest leadership positions in the Association for the Study of Higher Education (President, 2005-2006) and in the American Education Research Association, Division on Postsecondary Education (Vice-President, 1992-1994). She has served on the boards of the American Association for Higher Education and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She was the Chair of AERA’s Social Justice and Action Committee. In 2007, Dr. Bensimon was presented with a Distinguished Service Award in recognition of exceptional commitment to the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and in 2018 she received its Leadership Award. The University of Wisconsin system recognized Dr. Bensimon with the Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award in 2010. In 2011, she was inducted as an AERA Fellow in recognition of excellence in research and received ASHE’s Council on Ethnic Participation Founders Service Award. In 2013, she received the Association for the Study of Higher Education Research Achievement Award. She is a recipient of the USC Mellon Mentoring Award for faculty. In 2015, she received the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Outstanding Latina Faculty Award for Research & Teaching, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from ����vlog’s College of Education and Human Services.

In 2017, she was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education and she was presented with the 2017 Social Justice in Education Award by the American Education Research Association. Her opinion pieces have been published in Inside HigherEd, Denver Post, Sacramento Bee, and Zocalo. In January 2018, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Dr. Bensimon to the Education Commission of the States. She is the 2018 AERA Division J Research Award recipient. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Campaign for College Opportunity and Complete College America.

Dr. Bensimon was associate dean of the USC Rossier School of Education from 1996-2000 and was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico in 2002. She earned her doctorate in higher education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Susan was a senior vice president and senior philanthropic specialist for Wells Fargo from 1981-2016. She was responsible for charitable and nonprofit relationships in New Jersey and New York. Additionally, she provided consultative support for Abbott Downing’s foundation and endowment clients in these markets.

As a philanthropic specialist, she was responsible for overseeing the administration and investments of endowments, foundations and planned giving assets. In addition, she helped not-for-profit clients and donors explore which charitable giving strategies may work best, given the not-for-profit organization’s and donor’s unique sets of needs.

It is through Susan’s efforts that ����vlog received financial support for the John J. Cali School of Music Building Fund and the Cali Connect Program, and for the Shanghai Quartet Scholarship from the Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation. She is the 2006 recipient of the ����vlog Carpe Diem Award.

Susan earned a BA from Western Maryland College, an MA in psychology from ����vlog and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. In addition, she holds the designation of Certified Financial Planner. Susan is active in various civic and community service organizations including serving as a former board chair and current chair of the Development Committee with the Trinitas Health Foundation.