David M. Rubin has been dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University since July of 1990.  In the past 17 years he has raised nearly $40 million to support construction of a new building for the Newhouse complex, new endowed faculty chairs, and research centers on Television and Popular Culture, and Free Speech.  On his watch the School began new programs in Arts Journalism, New Media, and Public Diplomacy.  

 
The Newhouse School is now among the most selective undergraduate institutions in the United States, receiving more than 3500 applications each year for 330 spots in the first-year class.  Overall the School educates some 2000 students (at the B.S., M.S. And PhD level) with an operating budget of $12 million, 65 faculty members, and 40 staff members.  Rubin regularly teaches the freshman introductory course on "The Media and Society" and the senior-level course on First Amendment law. 

 
Rubin has served on two occasions as a Pulitzer Prize juror.  He headed the Task Force on the Public's Right to Know in 1979 that served the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.  His task force made recommendations on how to communicate more effectively to the public and the media during a nuclear power plant accident.

 
He has written widely on the business of classical music. He is an enthusiastic fan of opera, symphonic music and chamber music.  He lives with his wife Tina and their two highly accomplished Shetland Sheepdogs (Bobby and Ace) in Fayetteville.

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