Office of the President

Meet the President

Fred J. Maryanski assumed the presidency of Nevada State College on February 1, 2005.  He has made interaction with the community a priority.  Dr. Maryanski’s efforts have been recognized with him being named the 2006 Southern Nevada Person of Influence in Higher Education and the 2007 Henderson Public Sector Person of the Year.  In 2005, he was recognized at a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Connecticut School of Engineering.

Prior to moving to Nevada, Dr. Maryanski served as Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Connecticut, a role in which he also served in 1999-2000.  From 1989 to 2004, Dr. Maryanski was the Senior Vice Provost at UConn.  During his time in administration at Connecticut, he was responsible for the University’s regional campuses, undergraduate education, information technology, registration services, and academic budgeting.  Dr. Maryanski also played a key role in creating new partnerships between the University of Connecticut, the state university system, and the community colleges.  Before moving into central administration, Dr. Maryanski was the founding Head of the Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. 

Dr. Maryanski joined the Computer Science program at UConn in 1983 as a full professor.  As a researcher, he made significant contributions to the areas of data models and client-server database systems.  Dr. Maryanski held national leadership positions in the ACM, the oldest society of computing professionals. 

Before joining the UConn faculty, Dr. Maryanski was a consulting engineer in the research group at Digital Equipment Corporation.  During that period, he taught an affiliate professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  From 1974 to 1979, Dr. Maryanski served on the computer science faculty at Kansas State University.

Dr. Maryanski holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Providence College.