[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 71 (Tuesday, June 4, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4962-S4963]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN HONOR OF DR. NORMAN SAMUELS

 Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. President, today I recognize Dr. Norman 
Samuels, who has served as the Provost of the Newark Campus of Rutgers, 
the State University of New Jersey for the past 20 years. Dr. Samuels 
is retiring from his position as Provost after 20 years of outstanding 
service.
  Dr. Samuels has been a member of the Rutgers-Newark family since 
1967, when he first joined the university as an assistant professor of 
Political Science. He then proceeded to serve as Associate Dean for 
Academic Affairs at the Rutgers Newark College of Arts and Sciences, 
NCAS, from 1971-76; as Dean of NCAS from 1976-82; and as Provost since 
1982.
  During his tenure as Provost, Dr. Samuels has directed the 
development of the Newark campus into a major national research 
university center with extensive undergraduate, graduate, professional 
and outreach programs. It has been Dr. Samuels' vision and dedication 
to create an inspiring new atmosphere in Newark, along with his 
commitment to establish an imaginative urban educational enterprise 
that has led to Rutgers-Newark becoming what it is today. As a result 
of his many fine efforts, Rutgers-Newark is ranked first among national 
universities in diversity by U.S. News and World Report and has held 
that title

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ever since the magazine created that category.
  Dr. Samuels, a native of Montreal, Quebec, received his B.A. from 
McGill University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University. He 
currently resides in West Orange with his wife Sandra, a physician in 
the Rutgers-Newark's student health center. In his post-retirement 
life, Dr. Samuels plans a return to teaching as a political science 
professor at Rutgers-Newark.
  So I join with Newark Campus of Rutgers University in recognizing Dr. 
Norman Samuels, a visionary who helped steer the University from its 
difficult days of civil unrest to its current burgeoning resurgence. On 
the campus of Rutgers-Newark, no one person has had a greater hand in 
Rutgers' commitment to its students and the City than Dr. Samuels. He 
is to be saluted.

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