David Adamany
Laura Carnell Professor of Law and Political Science
Chancellor
1810 Liacourse Walk, Rm. 330
Phone: 215-204-9278
E-mail: adamany@temple.edu
Biography: David Adamany is Chancellor and Laura Carnell Professor of Law and Political Science at Temple University. He served as President at Temple from 2000 to 2006. He now teaches courses on the Supreme Court (Political Science 3103) and the American Political System (Political Science 1101) in the Political Science Department and a course on Election Law (Law 498) Temple’s Beasley School of Law.
Adamany previously served as President of Wayne State University in Detroit from 1982 to 1997. In 1999 to 2000, he was acting Chief Executive Officer of the Detroit Public Schools under state legislation putting the school district under special governance arrangements.
Adamany also served as Dean of the College at Wesleyan University and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland and at California State University, Long Beach. He served as a faculty member at each of those institutions and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He has been a member of chairman of thirteen accrediting teams at American universities and has been a consultant to many educational institutions, most recently the Abu Dhabi Education Commission and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.
Adamany has held a variety of state government posts including Pardon Council to the Governor of Wisconsin, member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, and Wisconsin Secretary of Revenue. He also served as a member of the Michigan Civil Service Commission and of the Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity of the United States Department of Education.
Adamany has served on the boards of directors of two multi-hospital health systems as well as two foundation and three corporate boards. He has also been a member of many civic and community boards.
Adamany has written widely on voting behavior, the state judiciary, the United States Supreme Court, campaign finance, constitutional law, higher education, and school reform. His publications are listed in his full resume posted on this site.