Academic

Bruce Kingma is currently working as a professor at Syracuse University in the iSchool and School of Management.^[3]

Kingma started his career as an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University in the Department of Economics. He then moved to Albany to work as Associate Professor for the School of Information Science and Policy at the University of Albany. While at the University of Albany, he also worked as an Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Information Science (1996–1997) and as a Director of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in Information Science (1997–2000). As the inaugural director of the bachelor's program in information science, Kingma increased course enrollments from 20 to 1600 students within a period of 3 years.

Bruce Kingma joined Syracuse University in the year 2000, as the Associate Dean of the School of Information Studies. He also founded the WISE education consortium^[4] - a partnership of 15 universities worldwide committed to quality online education.

Under his leadership, programs and initiatives like The Web-based Information Science Education Consortium (WISE).^[5]

In 2007, Kingma served as the Provost for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Community Engagement at Syracuse University, a title which he held for 6 years.^[6] During this time, Kingma transformed entrepreneurship education at Syracuse University.

Major programs started under Provost Kingma's leadership raised over $350m in external funding. These include The Raymond von Dran Innovation and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator Archived 2019-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, RvD Student Sandbox Incubator, IDS Lean-Startup courses, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, The Near West Side Initiative, The Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, StartUp New York, Engagement Scholars and Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows, The Connective Corridor, The Janklow Arts Leadership Program Archived 2020-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, The South Side Innovation Center, The South Side Initiative, The New York State Business Plan Competition.^[7] Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship,^[8] The Syracuse University Entrepreneurship Club, and The Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Learning Community.

From 2010 to 2013, Kingma was a contributor to the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded Lib-Value project measuring the return on investment of academic libraries.^[9]

Entrepreneurial

Bruce Kingma originated the Syracuse Model of Entrepreneurship Education, one of the first universities to focus on helping students start ventures.

Bruce Kingma is the founder of the award-winning WISE Consortium^[10] in 2002 which was the first international consortium of universities in online education.

Research

From 2007 to 2013, Kingma produced the “Syracuse Campus-Community Entrepreneurship Initiative: Transforming Campus and Community Culture to Foster Entrepreneurial Development in the Region.^[11]” Principal Investigator, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO ($3,000,000). From 2006 to 2009, Kingma produced the “WISE+: Leveraging the Power of the Network to Increase the Diversity of LIS Curriculum” Principal Investigator. (joint proposal with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Pittsburgh), Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C. ($936,338). From 2004 to 2006, Kingma produced the “WISE: Web-based Information Science Education. An Online Consortial Initiative to Build Multi-Institutional Capacity for Library and Information Science Education.” Principal Investigator (joint proposal with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C. ($713,492).

Books

• Academic Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement. Edited. Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc. (August 2011).
• Assessing Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery Services. With Mary Jackson, Tom Delany. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries (2004).
• The Economics of Information: A Guide to Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals. Second Edition. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. (January 2001).
• The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment. edited by Meredith Butler and Bruce Kingma. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries (1996). Also published as an issue of The Journal of Library Administration. 26:1/2 (1998) and as a monograph by Haworth Press (1999).
• The Economics of Access versus Ownership to Scholarly Information, with Suzanne Irving, Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press, Inc. (1996). Also published as an issue of Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply. 6:3 (1996).
• The Economics of Information: A Guide to Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. (1996). Also translated and published in Chinese by Ma Jei Cheng, University of Wuhan (1999).

Publications