Foundation for Student Success

Webinar 4

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

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. More…
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sabrina Kwist

Sabrina Kwist, Dean of Institutional Equity & Inclusion
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

New Mexico State University

 
Gena Jones

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. More…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jennifer Hodges

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. More…
 
 
 

Rutgers University-Newark

 
Sherri-Ann Butterfield

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. More…
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yakima Valley College

 
Tomás Ybarra

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. More…
 
 
 

 


Dave Belman, Dean of Student Success

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In his current position, Dave is responsible for eight Student Services areas at a community college serving more than 12,000 students each year. Additionally, he has provided leadership for major institutional planning efforts including Student Equity, Student Success & Support Program (SSSP), Integrated Planning, and enhancing high school early college credit programs in East Contra Costa County.

 

Dave is a student-centered, social justice minded educator who is continually working to design and implement innovative approaches to supporting student success by providing transformational experiences for students that lead to equity and excellence, with a high focus on integrating student services and instructional efforts.

 


Gena Jones, Assistant Vice President for Human Resources Services New Mexico State University

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Dr. Jones earned her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from New Mexico State University, a Master’s degree in Management from Webster University, and a Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership from the University of Phoenix. She has received her certification as a Senior HR Professional by both the Human Resource Certification Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management.

 

In addition to her many years of hands on experience and leadership in the field of HR, she has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has served in a number of national, state and local volunteer leadership positions including membership on the national Board of Directors of the HR Certification Institute and she served as President of the Texas Higher Education Human Resources Association. She has also received a number of leadership and professional excellence awards in the field of HR.

 

Dr. Jones is passionate about the field of human resources and organizational leadership, and truly enjoys working with employees at all levels of the university to enhance their working experience.

 


Jennifer Hodges, Director of Center for Academic Advising and Student Support

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Jennifer has taught undergraduate courses in career planning, leadership, and orientation to college as well as graduate courses in student development theory, history of higher education, and assessment in student affairs. Jennifer earned her Ph.D. in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education from Michigan State University in 2007. She is also a graduate of Texas A&M University and Ball State University.

 

Jennifer is a member of the NACADA Academic Advising Consulting and Speaker Service (AACSS) and serves on the Advisory Boards for AACSS and the Assessment Institute. She has presented at local, regional, and national NACADA and ACPA conferences; was a mentor for the Emerging Leaders Program 2013-2015; co-chaired the 2012 NACADA Great Lakes Region V Conference; and chaired the 2012 ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Institute. Jennifer’s research interests include: Self-Authorship Development, Commuter Students, and Academic Advisor Training and Professional Development.

 


Sherri-Ann Butterfield, Executive Vice Chancellor and COO

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Butterfield’s research specifically explores how race, ethnicity, class, and gender impact Afro-Caribbean immigrants and their children within the metropolitan contexts of New York/New Jersey and London. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes that include the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy and the Research in Urban Sociology Series. She has served in numerous academic and administrative capacities, including Visiting Academic Fellow in Nuffield College at Oxford University, Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Chancellor, Acting Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program, Associate Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, American Council on Education Fellow at New York University, and former Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department.

 

 


Tomás Ybarra, Vice President of Instruction and Student Services

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He served on the Board of Directors of the Council for Educational Opportunity, and was a founding member of the advisory board for the Master of Student Development Administration program of the Seattle University Graduate School of Education. He served on the School Board for the Archdiocese of Seattle, and helped to establish the Eastside Latino Leadership Forum of East King County, Washington. Mr. Ybarra earned his baccalaureate and Masters of Public Administration degrees at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.