Dr. James B. Dworkin came to the Purdue University North Central Campus in January of 2000 from the Purdue University West Lafayette Campus. Prior to coming to PNC, Dr. Dworkin served as Associate Dean of the School of Management and the Krannert Graduate School of Management on the West Lafayette Campus. Chancellor Dworkin has been with Purdue since 1976.
Dr. Dworkin received his B.A. in Economics (with high honors) and M.A. in Industrial Relations from the University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota.
He has published over 50 articles and two books in the field of industrial and labor relations. One of his books, Owners versus Players: Baseball and Collective Bargaining, was chosen as one of the ten best books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 1981. He also serves on the editorial board of three professional journals in the field of industrial relations. He continues to be active as an arbitrator, mediator and fact-finder for a variety of disputes in the public and private sectors of the economy. Currently his research focuses on arbitration, mediation and labor relations in professional sports.
Dr. Dworkin serves on the boards of the Horizon Bank, the Barker Civic Center Commission, the United Way of Porter County, the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, the Northwest Indiana Forum, the Quality of Life Council of Northwest Indiana, the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System, the Indiana Campus Compact, the LaPorte Regional Health System and was recently elected to the National Campus Compact. He is also a member of the Indiana Society of Chicago, the Union League Club of Chicago and the Rotary Club of Valparaiso. In November of 2000 he was inducted into the National Academy of Arbitrators. He is active in the American Association of State Colleges and Schools and serves as a member of their Commission on the Rural/Regional Agenda and the Committee on the Undergraduate Experience. He is the Chicagoland Conference Representative to the Council of Presidents of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
