Stevens Institute of Technology names AT&T'S Rick Roscitt to Board of Trustees

HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Rick Roscitt, president and CEO of AT&T Solutions, has been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the board of trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology, a leading applied science and engineering university.

"Mr. Roscitt brings very important perspective to the board, including that of the rapid global growth of e-business and the strategic use of technology in competitive business practices," said Stevens President Harold J. Raveche.

"I'm thrilled to be joining the board at Stevens, my alma mater and a school I admire very much," Roscitt said. "I am particularly interested in using my experience in the business world to help shape a curriculum that will produce undergraduates who are just as proficient and conversant in management as they are in technology. There is a strong and growing need for graduates of this type."

Roscitt’s focus on furthering networking education will be leveraged as he contributes to the development of the first e-business degree program at Stevens. He also is working with Ohio State University and other colleges to broaden the development of academic programs aimed at networking.

Roscitt, 47, is a 1972 graduate of Stevens with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He joined AT&T immediately upon graduation and later earned an MBA degree from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Roscitt, a native of West New York, N.J., spent much of his early career at AT&T in a succession of network engineering positions of increasing responsibility. He later held a series of executive sales and marketing positions.

Roscitt, who is also an executive vice president of AT&T, was one of the founders of AT&T Solutions in February 1995. As it begins its fifth year, AT&T Solutions, a professional services subsidiary, is one of AT&T's fastest-growing units, with more than 1,000 clients, 7,000 employees and $7.5 billion in contracts for new long-term business signed in 1998.

AT&T Solutions, based in Florham Park, N.J., provides seamless solutions that maximize the competitive advantage of networking-based electronic commerce applications. It uses state-of-the-art tools to operate and manage voice, data, video and internet /intranet services, including local and wide area networks, PBXs, voice-processing systems and voice and data terminals.

Established in 1870, Stevens offers baccalaureate, master and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science, management and technology management, as well as a baccalaureate in the humanities and liberal arts. The university has a total enrollment of more than 1,600 undergraduates and 2,100 graduate students.

Alternate contact: Jim Byrnes, AT&T Solutions, email: jbyrnes@att.com

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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