Alan Merten
{{Short description|American academic administrator (1941–2020)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Alan G. Merten
| image = Alan G. Merten.jpg
| office = President of George Mason University
| term_start = 1996
| term_end = June 30, 2012
| predecessor = George W. Johnson
| successor = Ángel Cabrera
| birth_name = Alan Gilbert Merten
| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|12|27}}
| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|05|21|1941|12|27}}
| death_place = Naples, Florida, U.S.
| known_for =
| education = University of Wisconsin-Madison (BS, PhD)
Stanford University (MS)
}}
Alan Gilbert Merten (December 27, 1941 – May 21, 2020){{cite book|title=American Men & Women of Science|author=R.R. Bowker Company. Database Publishing Group|date=2009|volume=5|publisher=Thomson/Gale|isbn=9781414433059|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=allYAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-03-09}}{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Preston |title=University mourns the loss of Alan Merten {{!}} George Mason |url=https://www2.gmu.edu/news/585871 |website=www2.gmu.edu |accessdate=22 May 2020 |ref=Williams}} was the fifth president of George Mason University.{{cite news|last1=de Vise|first1=Daniel|last2=Rein|first2=Lisa|title=Alan G. Merten to retire as George Mason University president|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/alan-g-merten-to-retire-as-george-mason-university-president/2011/03/23/ABConfJB_story.html|accessdate=22 October 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|date=March 23, 2011}}
Early life and education
Merten was born on December 27, 1941, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a masters in computer science from Stanford University, and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
Merten began his academic career as an engineering professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was then appointed dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and then dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, an Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York.
In 1996, Merten joined George Mason University as the university's fifth president. He retired on June 30, 2012.
Personal life
Death
Merten died on May 21, 2020, at a nursing home in Naples, Florida at age 78, following a battle with Parkinson's disease.
References
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External links
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Category:Educators from Milwaukee
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:University of Michigan faculty
Category:University of Florida faculty