Foundation for Student Success (FSS) Webinar 4
Webinar Series Title:
Engaging in Tough Conversations Toward Equitable Student Success
Fourth Webinar Title:
Hiring Strategies for Promoting Equity
Description:
The FSS mentor and mentee institutions all consider hiring as a critical lever for driving and sustaining culture change that supports efforts to close equity gaps and increase overall student success. Panelists from a variety of campus types will discuss the opportunities and challenges related to hiring they have faced as well as strategies they have used, both successful and less-than-successful.
Length:
90 minutes with time for questions and comments from the audience.
Watch:
Live Session originally recorded on Thursday, November 13, 2018
Length:
90 minutes with time for questions and comments from the audience.
Intended Audience:
This webinar series is open to all who are interested in promoting access and success for all students. Leadership, faculty, and student services staff from both two-year and four-year institutions may be particularly interested in attending.
Panelists:
Los Medanos College
Dave Belman, Dean of Student Success
Dave Belman has 17 years of experience providing progressively responsible student-centered leadership in higher education. He currently serves as the Dean of Student Success at Los Medanos College where he previously served as the Director of Student Life & Transfer Programs, HSI Grant Transfer Readiness Director and Faculty Director of Student Life. His experience also includes multiple coordinator and teaching roles at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of the Pacific.
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Sabrina Kwist, Dean of Institutional Equity & Inclusion
New Mexico State University
Gena Jones, Assistant Vice President for Human Resources Services
Dr. Jones has worked in the areas of human resources (HR), management and supervision for close to 30 years in both the private and public sectors; seventeen of which have been in executive leadership positions. Currently she is the Assistant Vice President and Chief HR Officer for New Mexico State University and previously held the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and The University of Nevada, Reno.
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Jennifer Hodges, Director of Center for Academic Advising and Student Support
Dr. Jennifer Hodges is the Director of the Center for Academic Advising and Student Support at New Mexico State University (NMSU). She joined NMSU in 2014 as Director of Advising and Retention for the College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining NMSU, Jennifer was Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of North Texas and Assistant Dean of University College at the University of Akron. She has also served as Director of Undergraduate Programs in Business at Akron and worked in Academic Advising at Michigan State University and Northern Kentucky University.
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Rutgers University-Newark
Sherri-Ann Butterfield, Executive Vice Chancellor and COO
Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield is Executive Vice Chancellor and Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University–Newark. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Yale University, and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. Her scholarly interests are immigration, race and ethnic relations, sex and gender, identity development and culture, and urban education within the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
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Yakima Valley College
Tomás Ybarra, Vice President of Instruction and Student Services
Tomás Ybarra began his career in Washington State higher education, as a staff member in the student services division of the Washington State Board for Community College Education. He directed a TRIO Upward Bound program at The Evergreen State College, before returning to the Washington State community college system as a Dean of Student Services, first at Bellevue College, then at Yakima Valley College. In 2006, Mr. Ybarra became Vice President for Instruction and Student Services at Yakima Valley College.
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