MARK B. ROSENBERG
PRESIDENT, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, MIAMI
Florida International University has an enrollment of 58,000 students from around the world. It employs close to 10,000 faculty and staff. Rosenberg, president since 2009, is a political scientist specializing in Latin America. He is the first FIU faculty member to ascend to the university’s presidency. In 1979, with Latin Americanist colleagues, he founded the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center, one of the nation’s premier federally supported research and teaching centers focusing on the region.
| EDUCATION | Miami University (BA), University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.) |
| RESOLUTION KEPT | Reduce complexity. Simplify. Don’t ask for too much from others. |
| FAVORITE VACATION | My three siblings and our families took our parents on a cruise for their 50th wedding anniversary. |
| STAYING FIT | I log a lot of time spinning, walking and using weights. Like most, I stress eat, so keeping fit is a big challenge now. |