Mark Chamberlain (educator)

Mark M. Chamberlain (1931–2014) was an American educator and the fourth president of Glassboro State College (now known as Rowan University) from 1969 to 1984.

After graduating from Pittsburgh's South Hills High School in 1949, he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and subsequently attended the University of Illinois where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in inorganic chemistry.

Chamberlain taught chemistry at Western Reserve University, now Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio for 13 years, also serving as assistant chair of the chemistry department and vice provost for student services.

[1][3] During his tenure as president, Glassboro transitioned from a small teachers college in Southern New Jersey to a multipurpose institution, creating three new academic divisions and expanding the school's enrollment from 3,500 to 8,800 students by 1984.

[1][4] Rowan University's student center, completed in 1974, was renamed named in honour of Chamberlain in 2006.