Announcing the appointment of
Mark Button
as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
I am pleased to share that Mark Button will join the University of Nebraska–Lincoln July 1 as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences with a faculty position as a professor of political science. Button comes to Nebraska from the University of Utah, where he served in many leadership roles over the past decade, including department chair, associate chair and director of graduate studies.
During his time at Utah, he recruited and retained award-winning faculty across all ranks, spurred new research and academic collaborations in many of the colleges, and expanded the undergraduate curriculum and majors. He also increased the diversity of students and faculty, established new scholarships, increased graduate student funding, and created a successful campus-community public dialogue series. Button has written two scholarly books and numerous articles that focus on political ethics, deliberative democracy, and the history of moral and political thought.
Button is a first-generation college student and holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science with a minor in peace studies from the University of Oregon. His doctorate in political science is from Rutgers University.