BILL FISCHER currently serves as the Associate Dean of Student Life/Director of Student Conduct at Johnson & Wales University. His primary responsibilities are to oversee administration of the student conduct and conflict resolution system and to provide leadership in the development and implementation of the Division of Student Life's Risk Management Program. He also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Student Life at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where
he provides assistance with project and initiatives in the Student Life division.

Bill also holds adjunct faculty appointments at Johnson & Wales University. Northeastern University, and Suffolk University where he teaches on the topic of law and higher education. His prior experience includes serving as the Director for the Office of Student conduct & Conflict Resolution at Northeastern University from 2000-2004; serving as the Associate Director of Student Life for Judicial Programs at the University of New Hampshire from 1998-2000; and serving as the Assistant Director of the Student Judicial Office at Illinois State University from 1997-1998.

Prior to his tenure in higher education, Bill was engaged in the full-time practice of law for approximately ten years in New Jersey.  He was a principal in the law firm of Matthews Wite & Fischer in Morristown, New Jersey. Bill is an active member in the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA), and has served on the Association's Board of Directors foe four years, the last two years of which he served as the Director for the Donald D. Gehring Campus Judicial Affairs Training Institute. Bill earned his B.A. degree from Villanova University and his J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law.