About:
Dr. Daniel J. Julius is a recognized expert in the areas of labor management relations, collective negotiations, human resources and conflict resolution. In addition he has considerable experience in higher education administration including evaluation and assessment, student success, establishing and maintaining international partnerships, managing long range planning and institutional accreditation processes, serving on or leading seventeen accreditation teams. Dan has facilitated retreats and seminars on shared governance, effective decision making, and best management practices for Deans, Provosts, Presidents and Trustees.
He has been Provost and Academic/Senior Vice President at three public and private
universities/systems (in Alaska, Illinois and New Jersey) and was the senior systemwide administrator (at the director and assistant vice chancellor level) for labor and human resources in the Vermont and California state higher education systems. Earlier in his career he was Director of the Center for Higher Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
More recently he has engaged in research and worked extensively as a consultant with senior leaders in mission driven cultural organizations (Fine Arts, History, Science, and Children’s Museums, Environmental Centers, Botanical Gardens, and the like) and facilitated CEO retreats for the American Alliance of Museums and other organizations affiliated with AAM. Currently he is developing executive education and related professional development programs for leaders of mission driven cultural organizations at Rutgers University as a Senior Fellow in the School of Management and Labor Relations. In past years he led a research team (as a Visiting Fellow) at Yale University, School of Management, studying leadership, effective decision making and unionization in museums and arts organizations.
Dr. Julius has taught or lectured at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, University of Hawaii, University of Toronto, University of New Hampshire, University at Albany, SUNY, New York University, Cornell University and at Yale University. At present in addition to his work at Rutgers University, he is a Visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director of Academic Partnerships at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. In his role as Director he initiates relationships with public and private organizations and institutions of higher education in the U.S., Europe, Central and Southeast Asia, developing joint degree opportunities, executive education seminars and academic exchange programs.
Internationally he has been invited to lecture as visiting faculty in the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Israel, Ireland, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Ecuador, Malaysia, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Greece, Japan, and served as a Visiting Scholar for the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman and at the International Labor Organization in Geneva Switzerland. Currently he teaches in the graduate program in International Relations at the Catholic University in Murcia Spain.
Dr. Julius has been an editor and reviewer for academic journals and authored over one hundred and fifty articles; his most recent book on labor management relations in higher education is published by Routledge Press. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, and the Center for Organizations Research at Stanford University. Over the years Dr. Julius' work was supported by the Gates, Kellogg, Danforth, Sloan, and Lilly Foundations, and he received two Fulbright awards. Earlier in his career he served as President of two national professional associations, in human resources and labor management relations, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA/HR), and the Academy for Academic Personnel Administrators (AAPA).
Dr. Julius has an active media presence and comments on labor management issues, most recently for CNBC, FOX and ABC TV news outlets. As a consultant he works with companies and corporations involved with selling products or services to institutions of higher education and with hospitals and health care systems, large urban police and fire departments, the construction industry, hotel and hospitality corporations, and universities, working primarily in the areas of evaluation of management practices, team building, human resources, evaluation and assessment of decision making protocols, and managing in unionized environments.
He holds degrees
from The Ohio State University and Columbia University.
Dan lives in Jersey City, New Jersey and Moreland Hills, Ohio, is an avid skier and collector of locks and keys. His collection of pre-eighteenth century keys dating back to 300 BCE is one of the largest in the United States. Those interested in viewing some of the artifacts in his collection can see them on this webpage.