Bruce Kingma


Bruce Kingma is an American economist and academic entrepreneur, who since 1988 has taught and worked in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Kingma is a pioneer in experiential entrepreneurship education and community engagement and his work cover topics ranging from academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and religion, information economics, online education, community engagement, library science, and nonprofit management.
He is currently working as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University, with joint appointments in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and School of Information Studies. He is the former Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the former Associate Dean of the iSchool, Syracuse University.

Early Life and Education

Bruce Kingma was born on October 4, 1961 in Illinois, Chicago. Kingma attended Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Illinois. In 1983, Kingma graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics with honors. Kingma then moved to Rochester to pursue a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester and graduated in 1989.

Career

Academic

Bruce Kingma is currently working as a professor at Syracuse University in the iSchool and School of Management.
Kingma started his career as an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University in the Department of Economics. He then moved to Albany to work as Associate Professor for the School of Information Science and Policy at the University of Albany. While at the University of Albany, he also worked as an Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Information Science and as a Director of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in Information Science. As the inaugural director of the bachelor’s program in information science, Kingma increased course enrollments from 20 to 1600 students within a period of 3 years.
Bruce Kingma joined Syracuse University in the year 2000, as the Associate Dean of the School of Information Studies. He also founded the WISE education consortium - a partnership of 15 universities worldwide committed to quality online education.
Under his leadership, programs and initiatives like The Web-based Information Science Education Consortium.
In 2007, Kingma served as the Provost for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Community Engagement at Syracuse University, a title which he held for 6 years.
Major programs started under Provost Kingma’s leadership raised over $350m in external funding. These include , , IDS Lean-Startup courses, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, The Near West Side Initiative, The Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, , StartUp New York, Engagement Scholars and Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows, The Connective Corridor, , , The South Side Initiative, The New York State Business Plan Competition, Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, The Syracuse University Entrepreneurship Club, and The Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Learning Community.
From 2010 to 2013, Kingma was a contributor to the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded Lib-Value project measuring the return on investment of academic libraries.

Entrepreneurial

Bruce Kingma is the founder of the award-winning WISE Consortium in 2002 which was the first international consortium of universities in online education.

Research




Economics

Kingma has been on the Board of Directors of the . He was also a member of the External Review Panel of the American Library Association, Committee on Accreditation. He has been an iCorps Program Reviewer for the National Science Foundation.