1. Scott Cowen was interim president of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from 2020 to 2021, and currently serves as Distinguished Presidential Visiting Professor of Leadership and Management at CWRU.
23 Facts About Scott Cowen
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Scott Cowen has written more than a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and five books.
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Scott Cowen served as Tulane's 14th president from July 1998 through June 2014.
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Son of Helen Cowen and Stanley Cowen, Scott Cowen finished his secondary education at Metuchen High School, New Jersey.
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In 2016 Scott Cowen was inducted into the inaugural Metuchen High School Hall of Fame.
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Scott Cowen was recruited by Lou Holtz to play football for the University of Connecticut, where later-legendary Holtz was briefly serving as an assistant coach.
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Scott Cowen was assigned to the Army Security Agency where he spent a tour of duty in the Middle East.
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Scott Cowen is the current board chairman of Parkwood Corporation, a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, and serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including Case Western Reserve University, the Mt.
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Scott Cowen served as an overseer of TIAA-CREF, a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, and is a trustee emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.
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Scott Cowen is a former president of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and former chair of the Association of American Universities.
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Scott Cowen led Tulane through a rebuilding and academic reorganization, during which the decision to merge and eliminate Newcomb College's quasi-selfstanding character wholly into Tulane was criticized, as was the decision to eliminate several departments in the School of Engineering and merge its remaining departments with the science departments in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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Scott Cowen was critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the State of Louisiana for their handling of Katrina recovery.
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Scott Cowen was appointed to the city's Bring New Orleans Back Commission and charged with leading a committee to reform and rebuild the city's failing public school system.
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Scott Cowen is a co-founder of the Fleur-de-lis Ambassadors program, a group of New Orleans civic leaders dedicated to spreading the message nationwide that post-Katrina New Orleans is an economically viable, livable city with a recovery plan in progress, and was a commissioner of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad.
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In 2009 Scott Cowen represented Louisiana's 10 private colleges and universities when he testified in the Louisiana legislature against a bill that provided for concealed weapons on campuses.
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In 2010, both before and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Scott Cowen testified, successfully, in the Commerce Committee of the Louisiana senate, against a bill by State Senator Robert Adley to terminate funding for the Tulane University Environmental Law Clinic.
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Also in 2010 Scott Cowen increased his attention to Tulane's athletics program, including a joint announcement with athletics director Rick Dickson that Tulane would build a new practice facility for basketball and volleyball and recognition that Tulane "must get better" in all its athletics programs and especially men's basketball and football.
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Scott Cowen was one of four US recipients of the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Awards in 2009.
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Scott Cowen dedicated the $500,000 award to Tulane's community-related activities, including the Scott Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives, the Center for Public Service that coordinates the university's service-learning requirements, and social entrepreneurship professorships.
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Scott Cowen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Recipient of the Times-Picayune Loving Cup for 2010, Scott Cowen was recognized as New Orleanian of the Year in 2011 by Gambit newspaper, Louisianian of the Year in Louisiana Life magazine, and one of the 300 most important people in the 300-year history of New Orleans by the Times-Picayune.
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Scott Cowen holds honorary doctorates from the University of Notre Dame, Brown, Case Western Reserve, George Mason, and Yeshiva universities as well as several other universities.
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Scott and Marjorie Cowen were credited by Mary Matalin for swaying her to relocate to New Orleans.