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Michael S. Frank, PhD

Michael S. Frank


Dr. Michael Frank serves as vice provost and dean of University of Maryland of University College’s Graduate School of Management and Technology. His service with the Graduate School includes chairing the Information Technology Systems department and General Management Programs department.

Before coming to the Graduate School, Dr. Frank held executive level positions in the private and public sector for many years. As an executive vice president for a large Maryland financial institution, he supervised several hundred people, drafted strategic and business plans, oversaw reorganizations and staffing, and controlled approximately one billion dollars in assets. Prior to that he was the human resource director of one of Maryland's largest jurisdictions, where he directed all human resource and collective bargaining activities for over four thousand employees.

Dr. Frank is the recipient of numerous official commendations, a leadership award, UMUC’s highest teaching excellence award (the Drazek Award), and several professional awards, including a Professional Writers Award from the International Personnel Management Association, and a Sustained Outstanding Quality Award from the National Capital Area's Management Association. His teaching, research, publication, and consulting interests reside in the field of human resource management, organization theory, and technology issues. His most recent publication is a chapter for The Development of Management Theory and Practice in the United States (2006).