Jeff Rutenbeck

Jeff Rutenbeck, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Arcadia University (PA), oversees all aspects of academic and student affairs. He has extensive experience with strategic planning and finance, program development, stakeholder engagement, fundraising, external partnership cultivation, and transformative inclusion. Previously, Rutenbeck served as the dean of the school of communication at American University (DC), founding dean of communication and creative media at Champlain College (VT), and founder and longtime director of the digital media studies program at the University of Denver (CO). His scholarship has focused on media history, politics, social change, and emerging technologies.