Daniel F. Sullivan

CURRICULUM VITAE

DANIEL F. SULLIVAN
54 East Main Street
Canton, New York 13617
Telephone: (315) 229-7307 (Home)
Telephone: (315) 229-5892 (Office)
E-Mail: dsullivan@stlawu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Columbia University, 1971, Sociology
Member, International Fellows Program; National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, President’s Fellow, Edward John Noble Fellow

B.S. St. Lawrence University, 1965, Mathematics (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Omicron Delta Kappa)

EMPLOYMENT

1996- St. Lawrence University: 17th President; Professor of Sociology

1986-1996 Allegheny College: 19th President; Professor of Sociology

1981-1986 Carleton College: Vice President for Planning and Development; Secretary of the College; Associate Professor of Sociology.

1979-1981 Carleton College: Dean of Academic Development and Planning; Associate Professor of Sociology

1971-1979 Carleton College: Assistant Professor of Sociology

1974-1976 Cornell University: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Senior Research Associate (on leave from Carleton)

1970-1971 Barnard College: Instructor in Sociology

1969-1973 Barnard College: Research Associate (extended for first two years of service at Carleton while finishing book)

1966-1967 New York Telephone Company: Central Office Supervisor, Syracuse, New York

SOME CURRENT AND PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2003- Member, Board of Directors, American Association of Colleges and Universities
(AAC&U); Chair, 2008

2007-Chair, Board of Trustees, Project Kaleidoscope, a National Science Foundation, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), Exxon Foundation, and Keck Foundation-funded partnership of liberal arts college presidents, deans and faculty devoted to reform and improvement of undergraduates science and math education. 1991-1998: Chair of the Executive Committee. 1999-2007: "Village Elder." 2003: Member, National Steering Committee.

2007- Member, Board of Directors, New York Commission for Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu); also 1999-2003, and Member, executive Committee, 2003

2003 Chair, Middle States Accreditation Review, Washington College

1998-2004 Chair, Board of Trustees, St. Lawrence Aquarium and Ecological Center (SLAEC)

1998 Chair, Middle States Accreditation Review, Ursinus College

1996-1999 Member, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities(NAICU) Board of Directors

1994 Member, Select Pennsylvania House of Representatives Task Force on Reform of Commonwealth Financing of Higher Education

1993-1996 Member, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Policy Committee

1989-1993 Vice Chairman, Chairman, and Past Chairman, Pennsylvania Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities

1991-1993 Executive Committee, Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU), and Member, PACU Special Committee of Presidents (convened to examine Commonwealth financing of higher education)

1991-1994 Member, Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education

1989-1993 Vice Chairman, Chairman and Past Chairman, Pennsylvania Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities

1983-1986 Member, National Science Foundation Panel, Program in Domestic Science Policy Analysis

1983 Consultant in Long-range Planning, Hiram College

1980-83 Member, College Board Advisory Committee on Research and Development

1980 Co-Chairman, Program Committee, Annual Meeting of The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Philadelphia

1980 Outside Reviewer of the Departments of Sociology at Macalester College and St. Lawrence University

1978 Outside Reviewer, Lilly Grant and NSF CAUSE Grants, Gustavus Adolphus College

1978-82 Collaborating Editor, Social Studies of Science (an international journal of science studies)

1975 Consultant, National Commission for Protection of Human Subjects (prepared research design for their empirical studies)

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

1995-99 Trustee, The Gow School, South Wales, New York (a boarding school for dyslexic boys)

1994-1996 Trustee, Western Pennsylvania Historical Society, Pittsburgh

1988 Member, Crawford County Coalition for Progress, Meadville, Pennsylvania

1984-86 President of the Board of Trustees, Shattuck-St. Mary’s School (a co-educational boarding and day school in Faribault, Minnesota); Trustee since 1981

1980-86 Director, First-Bank Northfield

1980-86 Coach, Northfield Summer Soccer League

1974 President, Northfield Chapter of ABC (A Better Chance Program)

BOOKS

1973 Bernard Barber, John J. Lally, Julia Laughlin Makarushka, and Daniel Sullivan, Research on Human Subjects: Problems and Processes of Social Control in Bio-Medical Experimentation. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation). Paperback edition with new preface (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1979)

1983 Larry H. Litten, Daniel Sullivan, and David Brodigan, Applying Market Research in College Admissions (New York: College Entrance Examination Board)

1991 (with others), What Works: Building Natural Science Communities, Vol I, (Washington, D.C.: Project Kaleidoscope)

PUBLISHED PAPERS

1972 Bernard Barber, John J. Lally, Julia Loughlin Makarushka, and Daniel Sullivan, “Experimenting With Humans: Problems and Processes of Social Control in the Bio-Medical Research Community,” in Hans Fehr and Robert M. Kunz, The Challenge of Life: Bio-Medical Progress and Human Values (Basel and Stuttgart: Birkhauser Verlag), 357-370.

1972 ___________, “The Dilemma of Science and Therapy in Bio-Medical Research,” Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 23, No. 8, August, 601-603.

1972 ___________, “The Structure and Processes of Peer Group Review,” Jay Katz, ed., Experimentation With Human Beings (New York: Russell Sage Foundation), 890, 900-903.

1975 Daniel Sullivan, “Competition in Bio-Medical Science: Extent, Structure and Consequences,” Sociology of Education, Vol. 48, Spring, 223-241.

1976 Daniel Sullivan, “The Carleton Applicant Pool: An Empirical Study,” in Northwest Area Foundation, Choice or Chance: Planning for Independent College Marketing and Retention, (St. Paul: Northwest Area Foundation), 46-63.

1976 Daniel Sullivan and Larry H. Litten, “Using Research in Analyzing Student Markets: A Case Study,” in Susan F. Watts, ed., A Role for Marketing in College Admissions (New York: College Entrance Examination Board), 86-113.

1977 Daniel Sullivan, D. Hywel White, and Edward J. Barboni, “The State of a Science: Indicators in the Specialty of Weak Interactions,” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 7, (May), 167-200.

1977 _______________, “Co-Citation Analyses of Science: An Evaluation,” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 7 (May), 223-240.

1979 D. Hywel White, Daniel Sullivan, and Edward J. Barboni, “The Interdependence of Theory and Experiment in Revolutionary Science: The Case of Parity Violation,” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 9, (November), 303-327.

1979 D. Hywel White and Daniel Sullivan, “Social Currents in the Weak Interactions,” Physics Today (April), 40-47.

1979 Daniel Sullivan and Michael Zuckert, “Demography and the Carleton Applicant Pool,” The Carleton Voice, Vol. 45, (Fall), 5-8.

1980 Daniel Sullivan, David Koester, D. Hywel White, and Rainer Kern, “Understanding Rapid Theoretical Change in Particle Physics: A Month-By-Month Co-Citation Analysis,” Scientometrics, Vol. 2, No. 4, 309-319.

1980 Daniel Sullivan, David Koester, and D. Hywel White, “Survival in Particle Physics: An Analysis of Experimentalists’ Persistence in Research,” Scientia Yugoslavica, Vol. 6, 191-201.

1981 Daniel Sullivan, Edward J. Barboni, and D. Hywel White, “Problem Choice and the Sociology of Scientific Competition: An International Case Study in Particle Physics,” Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present, Vol. 3, 163-197.

1982 Daniel Sullivan, “Libraries and Liberal Arts Colleges: Tough Times in the Eighties,” College and Research Libraries, Vol. 43, (March), 119-123.

1982 David Koester, Daniel Sullivan, and D. Hywel White, “Theory Selection in Particle Physics: A Quantitative Case Study in the Evolution of Weak-Electromagnetic Unification Theory,” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 12, (May), 73-100.

1985 David L. Brodigan and Daniel Sullivan, “Perceptions of College Price and Quality,” Journal for Higher Education Management, Vol. 1, No. 1, 19-32.

1989 D. Hywel White and Daniel Sullivan, “The Weak Interactions from 1950 to 1960: A Quantitative Bibliometric Study of the Formation of a Field,” in Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson, Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s (New York: Cambridge University Press), 390-406.

1990 Daniel F. Sullivan, “Institutional Integrity and Values: Recruitment, Admissions and Financial Aid,” Presidential Papers (Nashville, TN: Division of Higher Education, Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church), Vol. 6, No. 5.

2002 Daniel F. Sullivan, “The Variables of Positive Change,” in Jeanne L. Narum and Kate Conover, editors, New Directions for Higher Education: Building Robust Learning Environments in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (San Francisco, CA: JOSSEY-BASS), Number 119, Fall 2002,
87-92.

2006 Daniel F. Sullivan, “Milton’s Areopagitica and Feedom of Speech on Campus,”Liberal Education, Vol. 92, No. 2, 56-59.

2007 Daniel F. Sullivan, "Merit and Access," Inside Higher Ed, April 19, 2007.

Plus numerous unpublished papers in the sociology of science and medicine, the sociology of organizations, and college and university planning.

PERSONAL: Born January 19, 1944; married, three children

Updated 05/08