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 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research.  The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts.  Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world.  Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.