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Dr. William R. Wiener, a nationally recognized expert in disability research, is vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School.
Wiener joined Marquette in 2005 after serving as dean of the Graduate College at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, a university with an enrollment of more than 27,000 students.
At Marquette, Wiener helps advance research support, faculty productivity, and interdisciplinary relationships between the university's graduate and professional programs.
He chairs the University Promotion and Tenure Committee and the Board of Graduate Studies and provides oversight for the offices of the Graduate School, Research and Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance.
Wiener also works with the academic deans and administration to develop and advance a vision for the future of research and graduate education and is a member of the University Leadership Council.
Wiener received his bachelor’s degree in psychology at Cleveland State University and later earned a master’s degree in speech pathology and audiology at Cleveland State. He also received a master’s degree in blind rehabilitation (orientation and mobility) from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision (rehabilitation counseling) at Kent State University in Ohio.
Wiener specializes in helping individuals with disabilities to become as independent as possible. His studies have included mental retardation, the use of wheelchairs, visual impairment and hearing impairment. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, presented papers to national and international conferences and other meetings, and has served in leadership positions with several professional organizations.
Wiener is a former president of the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, the national professional organization in the field of blindness.
He has served as the chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, as a board member of the Disability Resource Center of Western Michigan, as a member of the Board of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education, and currently is a board trustee of the American Foundation for the Blind.
He is president-elect of the Association of Travel Instruction and co-chair of the Awards Committee of the Mobility Division of the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Wiener has received several awards relating to his activities.
In 1996, he was the recipient of the Lawrence E. Blaha Award for outstanding contributions to the field of orientation and mobility for people who are blind.
In 1996 and again in 2002, he was the recipient of the Newcomer-Hill Orientation and Mobility Service Award. Wiener was honored in 2002 by the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students for his contributions and in 2003, was awarded the Jim Neubacher Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of disability.
In 2004, Wiener earned the Ambrose Shotwell Award, the highest honor in his discipline, for contributions to the field of blindness and low vision.
Wiener has received more than $5 million in grants for research activities individually and in collaboration, including $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education in 1997 to provide preparation for individuals teaching visually impaired children in on-campus and distance learning settings.
In 2004, he received $750,000 from the Rehabilitation Services Administration to prepare rehabilitation counselors and $697,000 from the National Science Foundation as co-principal investigator for the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professorate between four universities.
After serving as an assistant and associate professor in the Orientation and Mobility Program at Cleveland State from 1974 to 1986, Wiener became professor and chair of the Department of Blind Rehabilitation at Western Michigan.
In 2000, he was named senior associate dean in the university’s Graduate College under the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and he became dean of the Graduate College in 2002.
Starting in 1999, he also held a joint appointment between the Department of Blindness and Low-vision Studies and the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology at the university. He also served as coordinator of the Michigan Council of Graduate Deans.
While serving at Marquette, Wiener intends to continue his own research activities. He is one of three editors writing and editing the third edition of Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, a textbook published by the American Foundation for the Blind that is a core tool in teaching mobility practitioners at the university level.
Wiener is also serving as a peer reviewer for Review Journal and the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness as well as a grant reviewer for the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation Research.
Before joining academia, Wiener provided orientation and mobility training for four years at the Syracuse Association of Workers for the Blind. He is a licensed professional counselor, a certified rehabilitation counselor, and a certified orientation and mobility specialist.
UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
- Ms. Rana H. Altenburg
- Ms. Cynthia M. Bauer
- Dr. Margaret L. Bloom
- Mr. Roby Blust
- Dr. William E. Cullinan
- Mr. Steven J. Cottingham
- Dr. Robert J. Deahl
- Dr. Dennis Garrett
- Ms. Tricia Geraghty
- Dr. William A. Henk
- Dr. Stanley V. Jaskolski
- Mr. Joseph D. Kearney
- Mr. Greg Kliebhan
- Mr. John C. Lamb
- Dr. William K. Lobb
- Dr. Judith Fitzgerald Miller
- Dr. John J. Pauly
- Dr. John Pustejovsky
- Ms. Stephanie Russell
- Mr. Arthur F. Scheuber
- Dr. David L. Shrock
- Mrs. Janice Simmons-Welburn
- Dr. Jeffrey T. Snell
- Rev. Andrew J. Thon, S.J.
- Ms. Julie Tolan
- Dr. William R. Wiener
- Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J.
Quick Facts About Marquette
| Identity: | Catholic, Jesuit, private |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Undergraduate: | 8,048 |
| Postgraduate: | 3,500 |
| Campus: | Urban, 90 acres |
| Athletics: | 14 NCAA Division I teams (Big East) |
| Colors: | Blue and Gold |
