David Rehm
Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Vice President for Academic Affairs has primary responsibility for the excellence and integrity of the Mount’s academic programs.  The Vice President oversees the fourteen academic departments, the majors, the core curriculum and its associated programs, and the administrative offices that support these programs.  The Vice President also oversees Admissions and the Library. 

Dr. David Rehm was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs in February 2007.  Prior to that, he served ten months as Interim Vice President.  From June 2004 through April 2006, he served as Dean for Academic Affairs.  Dr. Rehm came to the Mount in 1995 as Assistant Professor of Philosophy.  He was hired primarily because of his work in ancient philosophy; his expertise lies in late ancient Greek philosophy – especially Plotinus, the 3rd century Greek philosopher who significantly influenced the intellectual development of St. Augustine.  In 1997, Dr. Rehm was appointed Director of the Mount's nationally acclaimed Freshman Seminar program, a position he held through 2003.  He also served as the chair of the Undergraduate Academic Committee from 2000-2002.  In 2002, he won the John Richards Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2003, he won a national award, the First-Year Advocate Award from the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, honoring his work with first-year college students.  He also won, in 2005, the Honors Program Distinguished Service Award.  From 2002 through 2005, he co-chiared (with Dr. Michael Towle) the Mount's reaccrediation process through Middle States Commission on Higher Education

Dr. Rehm is actively engaged with the profession.  He has recently presented papers on retention (“No Student Falls Through the Cracks:  A ‘Catholic’ Approach to Retention”), on college preparation among high school students (“Fundamentals of the Humanities From High School to College:  The Sentence as the Foundation of Grammar and Argument” – with his wife, Nancy Rehm), and on Catholic higher education (“The Role of Neoplatonism in Catholicism and Catholic Higher Education”).  Dr. Rehm has also served as an evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Dr. Rehm received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1983 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994.  He is married to Nancy Rehm, a high-school teacher in Biglerville, PA, and they have two children, Alex Rehm and Remee Klos.

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