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Richard Kamenitzer's accomplishments include being the former Program Director & Associate Professor of the Arts Management Program (having been granted EMERITUS status by George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú’s Board of Visitors in 2013, upon his retirement); principal of The Bright Solutions, an arts & non-profit consulting firm; Chief Financial Officer of the Confucius Institute U.S. Center; principal of Succession, Inc., a non-profit consulting firm; vice president of ADVENTUS II, Inc, a construction management firm for hospitals, universities and arts organizations; executive director of the Newark Community School of the Arts; vice president for operations of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Newark, NJ; dean of business affairs & tenured professor of Passaic County Community College; assistant to the executive vice president and budget director of Essex County College; staff auditor of Arthur Andersen & co, an international CPA firm. In addition, he has been a member of the adjunct faculty of Penn State Â鶹¹ú²ú, Fairleigh Dickinson Â鶹¹ú²ú and Essex County College. He served as Cultural Envoy of the U.S. State Department to the Kingdom of Swaziland and as a USAID representative from George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú to the Republic of Sierra Leone. He has taught at three Chinese Universities and five South Korean Universities. He has served on the Board of Trustees/Directors for eleven arts, not-for-profit and private foundations. For three years he was the finance instructor at the John F. Kennedy Performing Art’s Center DeVos Institute for Arts Management. He has a BS in Accounting and an MBA in Quantitative Analysis from Seton Hall Â鶹¹ú²ú and an LL.B. in American Law & Procedure from LaSalle Extension Â鶹¹ú²ú and has done post graduate work in higher education administration at New York Â鶹¹ú²ú. 

Degrees

• LL.B., American Law & Procedure, LaSalle Extension Â鶹¹ú²ú
• MBA, Quantitative Analysis, Seton Hall Â鶹¹ú²ú
• BS, Accounting, Seton Hall Â鶹¹ú²ú