Arnold Mitchem elected to Marquette Board of Trustees

Dr. Arnold Mitchem, an internationally recognized advocate of educational opportunity for students who are economically disadvantaged or disabled, is the newest member of the Marquette University Board of Trustees.

Elected Wednesday, Mitchem is an alumnus, former faculty member and former administrator at Marquette. He served on the university’s history faculty in the 1960s and was director of the Educational Opportunity Program from 1969 to 1986. He received his doctoral degree in the foundations of education from Marquette in 1981. He also held the Ralph Metcalfe Chair at Marquette in 1996 and received an honorary doctorate from Marquette in 2004.