Adam Stein Weinberg (born January 12, 1965) is an American sociologist, academic administrator, and the 20th and current president of Denison University.
[1] He worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, before pursuing graduate studies at Northwestern University.
He was named a Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year and was honored with a Maroon Citation by the Colgate Alumni Corporation.
[6] During his tenure as the university's president, there has been significant expansion of the curriculum with new generation academic programs, global programs, and a deepening of the arts, including the construction of the Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts; a reinvention of career exploration with the launching of the Austin E. Knowlton Center for Career Exploration; and a campus-wide focus on mentorship as a defining feature of a liberal arts education.
[7] Weinberg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’s Higher Education Working Group on Global Issues[8] and the Talloires Network.
[13] In 2017, Weinberg received the Career Services Champion Award from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.