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David Shrock, DBA, is the Interim Provost of Marquette University. Reporting to the President, Dr. Shrock is responsible for academic affairs and Institutional Planning. As Interim Provost he provides intellectual vision and leadership for the 10 academic deans and the Dean of Libraries.
Prior to assuming the role as Interim Provost, Dr. Shrock was the Dean of the College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management and professor of transportation and logistics a position he held since joining Marquette in 1999.
Shrock has been an active participant in the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business-International, the leading global business accreditation organization. In 2005 he began a three-year term on the Association’s board of directors and serves on the Strategic Directions Committee. He served as chair of the Business Accreditation Committee from 1993 to 1995.
In addition, Shrock has served on the Advisory Board for the Local Area Support Corp. in Milwaukee and on the Strategy Board of the Milwaukee Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.
Shrock’s research interests include transportation policy, customer service, carrier management and cost and productivity-oriented management information systems. He is the author or co-author of four books, including a leading textbook in transportation, and has published more than 50 articles and papers on transportation.
Shrock previously served as dean of the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia from 1994 to 1999 and the College of Business at Iowa State University from 1989 to 1994. Shrock also served as a faculty member at Arizona State University in Tempe for more than 15 years, where he also was associate dean of the College of Business from 1986 to 1989 and assistant dean of the Graduate College in 1984-85.
A native of Kokomo, Ind., Shrock earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering for the General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich., in 1964. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington for graduate study, receiving his master’s of business administration in 1972 and his doctorate, with a major in transportation and minors in accounting and quantitative business analysis, in 1974. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1965 to 1970.