Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

CAROLINE SOTELLO VIERNES TURNER

Current Position

Professor, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Arizona State University, College of Education
Tempe, AZ 85287-2411

Email: csturner@asu.edu

Former Positions

American Council on Education Fellow, 2001-2002
Office of the President
California State University, Stanislaus
Turlock, CA 95382-0299
Professor, Educational Policy and Administration
Research Coordinator, Faculty Development Programs,
Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs
University of Minnesota

EDUCATION

1988 PHD Stanford University School of Education; Policy Analysis and Higher Education; Disciplinary Minor: Sociology
1986 EDS Stanford University School of Education; Specialist in Program Evaluation
1970 MA University of California, Davis; Educational Psychology
1967 BA University of California, Davis; History

RESEARCH AND TEACHING GRANTS

2002 Co-Principal Investigator, Hispanic Church Research Initiative Faculty Project to study the role, function, and satisfaction levels of current Latino theological faculty and other issues related to their professional growth in the academy. Funded by PEW Charitable Trusts
2000 Consultant and Focus Group Facilitator, Community Based Non-Profits: Anti-Racist organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era. Work with the Roy Wilkins Center, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Project sponsored by Otto Bremer and C.S. Mott Foundations
1999 Co-Principal Investigator, Interrupting the Usual: Successful Strategies for Hiring Diverse Faculty. Spencer Foundation Grant
1999 Principal Investigator, Georgia Case Study: Strengthening the Bridge between Higher and Secondary Education. Work with the National Center for Post-Secondary Improvement at Stanford University. Funded project examines undergraduate admission and placement policies of public four?year institutions and state agencies in Georgia. Part of a national study that includes several states and institutional sites
1995 Diversity Grant from the Bush Foundation and from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Policy to support the development of a course entitled "Race, Public Policy, and Higher Education.
1995 Recipient of President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award
1994 Principal Investigator, Graduate School Grant-In-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship to study the socialization of pre-tenure faculty of color
1993 Co-Principal Investigator, Midwest Higher Education Commission Minority Faculty Development Program. Project provided a research base to inform the development of a plan to increase the number of minority faculty in underrepresented academic disciplines in both public and independent colleges, universities and community colleges throughout the Midwest. Grant funded by the St. Paul Companies and the McKnight Foundation
1993 Diversity Grant from the Bush Foundation to examine issues of leadership in education administration with a focus on career paths for women and people of color
1993 Co-Principal Investigator, grant from the National Center for Research in Vocational Education to conduct a national study of women and people of color in administrative/leadership roles in vocational education
1991 University of Minnesota Selected as faculty participant in the Bush Project for Teaching Excellence. Fall quarter leave to examine organizational barriers to diversity in higher education
1990-1991 University of Minnesota Graduate School Grant-in-Aid to study diversity and involvement in the community college
1989-1990 University of Minnesota Commission on Women Special Grants Program to study the socialization of minority women doctoral students
1988-1989 University of Minnesota Graduate School Faculty Summer Research Fellowship Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Faculty Research Grant to study postsecondary educational attainments of Minnesota minority students

TRAVEL GRANTS

2002 American Council on Education Fellowship on site study of higher education in Cuba, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
2000 Participant in an invitational study group meeting on undergraduate, graduate, and faculty career experiences of underrepresented minorities in science, mathematics, and engineering sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) held in Washington, D.C. on September 18-19, 2000.
Participant in an invitational symposium and working research meeting on diversity and affirmative action sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE) held in Washington, D.C. on January 14-16, 1999.
1998 Travel Grant to participate in a study seminar, The Second World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality sponsored by the Faculty of Aboriginal and Islander Studies, University of South Australia; Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota; and the International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
1996 International Travel Grants from the College of Education and Human Development and from the Institute of International Studies and Programs to participate in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Conference at the University of Tasmania in Australia, December 8-13.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2002 ASU Preparing Future Faculty Program Mentor Appreciation Award
2001 Selected as an American Council on Education (ACE) 2001-2002 Fellow.
2000 Selected by committee on Scientific Freedom, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as one of 25 participants in a new research/teaching initiative entitled "Racial and Ethnic Minorities as Research Subjects: Challenges for Research Ethics," to take place over the academic year 2000-2001 in Washington, DC and Tuskegee University.
2000 Interviewed for Women in Higher Education publication, published in the November 2000 issue under the title, Faculty diversity suffers from conflicting commitments. Madison, WI: The Wenniger Company.
1998 Selected by the Minneapolis section of the National Council of Jewish Women, Inc. as one of 16 women profiled in a publication entitled "Women Making a Difference."
1994 Selected as a CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow for 1994-95. Participants are tenured professors nominated by their peers to prepare them for future positions in academic leadership and administration.
1993 Emerging Scholar Award Recipient. Presented by the Council of Universities and Colleges at their annual meeting in Portland, Oregon on April 28, 1993 Nominated for College of Education and Human Development Distinguished Teaching Award.
1987 Finalist, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Dissertation of the Year Award.
1985-1987 Stanford University Recipient, National Research Pre-Doctoral Trainee Fellowship in Organizations and Mental Health sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health through Department of Sociology
1984-1985 Stanford University Lewis B. Mayhew Scholarship Recognition of merit in the study of Policy Analysis and Higher Education
1982-1985 Stanford University School of Education Fellowship
1982 & 1979 University of California, Davis Twice nominated and selected for Outstanding Performance Award, a monetary award in recognition of especially meritorious service in the areas of student affairs and community outreach. Accomplishments included: Active member of advisory committees on staff development, student service, and community outreach; Developed and coordinated multi-ethnic women's conference and lecture series; For two years, mobilized diverse groups in the City of Davis, including several University groups, to work together and promote human service through a week-end, city-wide event attended by over 3000 persons; the event had a $100 budget and was carried out primarily by volunteers.
1980 Recipient of Mid-Management Internship Financial Aid Office Selected to receive six months of training on the operation and management of a broad range of financial aid office functions. Accomplishments included: A study of the entire student application process for all federal, state, and local financial aid programs; The development of an improved procedure for categorizing and filing supporting documents such as tax forms and parent letters; Developed charts which visually displayed present office processes and procedures with recommended interventions. These were used to improve the efficiency of the entire student financial aid application processing cycle.

EXPERIENCE: ADMINISTRATION

1997-1999 Research Coordinator for Faculty Development Programs, Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota. Administrative appointment providing research and scholarly support for a University of Minnesota initiative related to the recruitment, retention, and development of faculty of color. Design, secure funding for, and convene scholarly meetings such as the national symposium on Keeping our Faculties attended by over 300 scholars and policymakers representing 36 states and Diversity through the Disciplines, a university?wide open forum showcasing the scholarship of the President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award recipients.
1986-1987 Graduate Student Assistant to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Minority Student Concerns and Recruitment Stanford University School of Education
1973-1982 Reading Program Coordinator Learning Skills Center University of California, Davis; Designed and taught reading workshops. Advised students. Hired and supervised program staff. Coordinated academic and student support services for the 1979 Special Transitional Enrichment Program (STEP) serving over 100 special action students. Oversaw STEP program budget.
1971-1973 Learning Development Program Specialist Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; Implemented first study skills program at Kent State University. Taught and advised students who qualified for services and voluntarily participated in the Learning Development Program.
1970-1971 Financial Aid Counselor University of California, Davis; Advised students, evaluated applications, determined need, recommended awards.
1968-1969 Educational Opportunity Program Counselor University of California, Davis; Provided academic, vocational, and personal-social counseling to educationally and economically disadvantaged students.

EXPERIENCE: TEACHING

1999-present Professor, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Arizona State University
2001 Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota, Adjunct faculty member in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
1994-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota, Adjunct faculty member in the Hubert H. Humphrey, Institute of Public Affairs
1987-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota

Courses Taught:

Qualitative Case Studies for Policy Research,
Critical Issues in Higher Education,
Formal Organizations in Education, The Higher
Education Institution: Organization and
Environment, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in
Higher Education, Recent Research Topics on
Community Colleges, The Two?Year
Postsecondary Institution, School and Society,
History of American Higher Education, The
Inclusive Classroom, Dissertation Seminar,
Seminar on Race, Public Policy, and Higher
Education, Workshop on Building an Inclusive
Classroom, Introduction to Qualitative Methods

1984 Instructor, Language Arts Division, Course: Developmental Reading, De Anza College, Cupertino, California
1982 Adjunct Lecturer, Education Department, Course: Cognitive Processes Involved in Text Learning; University of California, Davis, Shared lecture responsibilities and curriculum design with Professor Carl Spring. Co-authored internal report on this experimental course.
1979 Seminar Leader, Asian American Studies, Course: Race, Nationality, and the Asian American, University of California, Davis, With Professor Edwin Almirol, designed learning strategies seminar to increase competencies of low performing students.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

The use of qualitative research approaches in the study of education policy and the higher education institution (including nonbaccalaureate institutions); access and equity issues in education; effects of social, demographic, economic, and political environment on higher education structures and processes; reciprocal effects of colleges and universities on their environment; relational networks and the implementation of policies requiring inter?institutional collaboration (for example, educational reform and K-16 transitions and the community college transfer process); postsecondary attainments of ethnic minority and re?entry students; postsecondary educational policy development as it affects higher education institutions, students, and faculty; educational preparation for the labor market.

EXPERIENCE: EVALUATION

1986-1987 Consultant/Evaluator of 5th and 6th grade drop?out prevention program for St. John's Tutoring Center, Mission District, San Francisco County Schools
1985-1986 Evaluator of drop-out prevention programs (K-8) in Santa Clara County School Districts for the Whitney, San Francisco, and Packard Education Foundations
1984-1986 Evaluator of the transfer process in six Bay Area Community Colleges for the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. Paper accepted for presentation at the 1987 American Educational Research Association meeting.

PUBLICATIONS

Latest manuscripts

Published

Books

Turner, C.S., (Senior Editor). (2002), Racial and ethnic diversity in higher education: A topical anthology. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.
Turner, C.S. (2002). Diversifying the faculty: A guidebook for search committees. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Turner, C.S., & Myers, S.L., Jr. (2000). Faculty of color in academe: Bittersweet success, Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Turner, C.S., (Senior Editor). (1996), Racial and ethnic diversity in higher education: A topical anthology. Needham Heights, MA: Ginn Press, Simon and Schuster Higher Education Group.

Articles

Turner, C.S. (2002) Women of color in academe: Living with multiple marginality. In Jim Fairweather (Ed.), Journal of Higher Education 73 (1), 74-93.
Turner, C.S. (September-October 2000). New faces, new knowledge. Academe, 86 (5), 34-37.
Turner, C.S., Myers, S.L., Jr., & Creswell, J.W. (January/February 1999). Exploring underrepresentation: The case of faculty of color in the Midwest. The Journal of Higher Education, 70 (1), 27-59.
Turner, C.S. (May 1999). Minority faculty recruitment and retention: Creating supportive environments. Black Issues in Higher Education, 16 (7) 36.

Book Chapters

Myers, S. L., Jr. and Turner, C. S. (2001). Affirmative action retrenchment and labor market outcomes for African-American faculty. In B. Lindsay and M. Justiz (Eds.), The Quest for Equity in Higher Education: Towards New Paradigms in an Evolving Affirmative Action Era. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Turner, C.S. (2000). Defining success: Promotion and tenure -- Planning for early career stage and beyond. In M. Garcia (Ed.), Succeeding in an academic career: A guide for faculty of color. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Reports, Proceedings, Monographs

Turner, C.S. and Taylor, D.V. (2002). Keeping our faculties: Addressing the recruitment and retention of faculty of color. Position paper from 2002 Keeping Our Faculties Symposium. University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN
Turner, C.S. and Love, L. (2001). Evolution of transfer and racial/ethnic diversity: Complexity of joint access. In A century of community colleges in America: Challenges, past, present, and future. University of North Texas: Bill J. Priest Center for Community College Education, 71-92.
Turner, C. S. (1999). Keeping our faculties: Executive summary. University of Minnesota: Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs.
Turner, C. S. (1999). Keeping our faculties: Symposium plenary sessions. University of Minnesota: Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs.
Turner, C. S. (1999). Keeping our faculties: Symposium concurrent sessions. University of Minnesota: Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs.
Turner, C. S. (To be published on-line). Diversity journal project. Washington, D.C.: ASHE-ERIC higher education refereed web site: http://www.eriche.org/library/index.html#cribs

Invited Submissions

Book

Turner, C. S. (Ed.). (In process). The Benefits of Faculty Diversity (working title) with Johns Hopkins University Press and the American Association of University Professors. A book in a series on faculty sponsored by AAUP and published by JHP.

Articles

Turner, C.S. (In process). Self and values: Implications for developing a research identity. In William Trent and M.Christopher Brown (Eds.), Journal of Negro Education.
Turner, C.S. and Harris, R. G. (In process). Motherhood, education, and work: Reflections from two generations. In Leigh M. O'Brien & Beth Blue Swadener (Eds.), Mothers, Daughters, and Education: Stories from the Inside/of Humble Knowledge Creation. Re-thinking childhood series. NY: SUNY Press.
Turner, C.S. and Love. L. (Accepted for publication). Evolution of diversity and transfer: Complexity of joint access. In Stephen Katsinas and Bob Pederson (Eds.), Community College Journal of Research and Practice.

Submitted

Smith, D.G., Turner, C. S., Osei-Kofi, N., and Richards, S. Interrupting the Usual: Successful Strategies for Hiring Diverse Faculty, submitted to the Journal of Higher Education.

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS/MONOGRAPHS/REPORTS

Turner, C.S., & Smith, D.G. (2002) Hiring faculty of color: Research on the search committee process and implications for practice. In Keeping our faculties: Symposium proceedings for plenary sessions. University of Minnesota: Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs.
Smith, D.G., Turner, C.S., Chandler, T. & Henry, C. (2001). Interrupting the usual: Successful Strategies for hiring diverse faculty," report submitted to the Spencer Foundation small grants program.
Turner, C.S. (1999). Addressing the recruitment and retention of faculty of color in higher education: Promoting business as unusual. In Keeping our faculties: Symposium proceedings for plenary sessions. University of Minnesota: Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs. 1-42.
Turner, C.S., & Myers, S.L., Jr. (1997). Faculty diversity and affirmative action. In M. Garcia (Ed.), Affirmative Action's Testament of Hope: Strategies for a New Era in Higher Education.(pp.131-148).
Turner, C.S., & Louis, K.S. (1996, May). Society's response to differences: A sociological perspective. In J. York-Barr (Ed.), Remedial and Special Education, Inclusion: Conceptual Foundations, 17(3) (pp. 134-141). A Pro-Ed Publication.
Turner, C.S., & Laden, B.V. (1995, Spring). Viewing community college students through the lenses of gender and color. In B. Townsend (Ed.), Gender and Power in Community Colleges (pp. 15-27). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Turner, C.S., & Myers, S.L., Jr. (1995, May). Midwestern Higher Education Commission minority faculty development project: Technical report. Minneapolis, MN: Midwestern Higher Education Commission.
Turner, C.S. (1995, July-August). [Review of minorities in higher education]. M.J. Justiz, R.Wilson, & L.G.B. Bjork (Eds.) for ACADEME: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, 81(4) 77-78.
Turner, C.S. (1994, July-August). Alien students alien staff: How awesome the gap in higher education. Colors: Minnesota's Journal of Opinion by Writers of Color, 4(3), 23-27.
Turner, C.S. (1994, Summer). A guest in someone else's house: Students of color on campus. The Review of Higher Education, 17(4), 355-370.
Turner, C.S. (1994, May). Women and people of color in administrative and leadership roles in vocational education. (Research Report). Berkeley: University of California, National Center for Research in Vocational Education.
Turner, C.S., & Thompson, J.R. (1993, Spring). Socialization experiences of minority and majority women doctoral students: Implications for faculty recruitment and retention. The Review of Higher Education, 16(3), 355-370.
Turner, C.S. (1992, Spring). It takes two to transfer: Relational networks and educational outcomes. Community College Review, 19(4), 27-33.
Turner, C.S. (1991, April). Students of color on Minnesota's colleges and universities. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Reporter, 21(2), 6-11.
Turner, C.S., & Louis, K.S. (1991, Winter). A program of institutional research on graduate education. In D.M. Fetterman (Ed.), Using Qualitative Methods in Institutional Research, 72, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 49-64.
Turner, C.S. (1990, Fall). A California case study: Organizational determinants of the transfer of Hispanic students from two- to four-year colleges in the bay area. Metropolitan Education, 6, 1-24.
Turner, C.S., & Fryer, T.W., Jr. (1990). The transfer status of non?transfer students.
Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 14, 213-226.
Turner, C.S., & Schwartz, S. Social and political trends affecting vocational education. Chapter prepared for University Council for Vocational Education Monograph.
Turner, C.S. (1989, Summer). Advocates for education: Parent and community roles. Intercambios Femeniles, 4 25.
Turner, C.S. (1984). Demographic shifts and their implications for education: The Hispanic population in California. Policy Analysis for California Education Project (PACE), University of California, Berkeley. Excerpt printed by The Study of Stanford and The Schools Changing Contexts Panel, July 1984.
Turner, C.S., Zais, E., & Gatewood, L. (1974, April). The effect of a developmental program on university student grades. Journal of Reading, 17, 531-537.

RESEARCH-BASED PAPER PRESENTATIONS

"Hiring Faculty of Color," presented at the Second Keeping our Faculties Symposium at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, April 22, 2002.
"Interrupting the Usual: Successful Strategies for Hiring Diverse Faculty," presented at the 26^th annual Association for the Study of Higher Education conference in Richmond, VA, November 16, 2001.
"Evolution of Transfer and Diversity: Complexity of joint access," presented at the Inaugural Conference, A Century of Community Colleges in America: Challenges Past, Present, and Future at the University of North Texas, February 26, 2001
"Bridging the Gap: Transitioning Between K-12 and Postsecondary Education" and "A Dialogue on Faculty Diversity," papers presented at the 2000 Rossier School of Education conference: Higher Education for a New Century: Partnerships, Productivity, and Performance at the University of Southern California, June 30, 2000.
"The Bridge Project: Strengthening K-16 Transition Policies," symposium presented at the 2000 American Educational Research Association Meeting in New Orleans, LA, April 27, 2000.
"Faculty in the 21^st Century," presented at the 2000 American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) annual meeting in Anaheim, CA, March 30,2000.
"Reshaping the Academy to Accommodate Conflicts of Commitment: Then What?" presented at a national teleconference: Shaping a National Agenda for Women in Higher Education in Minneapolis, MN, March 27, 2000. (with B. Townsend, University of Missouri-Columbia).
"Tenure in the Sacred Grove: Current Issues for Women and Minorities," focused dialogue presented at the 1999 Association for the Study of Higher Education meeting in San Antonio, TX, November, 20,1999.
"Transitions between K-12 and Postsecondary Education: Bridging the Gap," symposium presented at the 1999 Association for the Study of Higher Education meeting in San Antonio, TX, November, 19,1999.
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Academic Leadership Program Fellows seminar on "The University of the Future: Motivating Change," invited address, "Faculty and Staff of the Future: Issues, Obstacles and Myths in Recruiting and Retaining Faculty and Staff of Color,"April 24, 1999.
"Asian Pacific American Faculty in Higher Education," paper presentation sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 19, l999.
"Faculty Diversity in Higher Education," invited paper presentation, American Educational Research Association graduate student seminar, Montreal, Canada, April 19, l999.
"Developing Strategies to Recruit, Retain, and Promote Faculty and Administrators of Color," invited to assemble an expert scholarly panel (C.S. Turner, S.L. Myers, Jr. and W. Harvey) to provide a workshop for the American Association for Higher Education Black Caucus at the AAHE national conference, Marriott Wardham Park, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1999.
"Faculty Diversity: Racial and Ethnic Perspectives," invited paper presented at the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) conference entitled Redefining Merit, Race Relations, and Leadership, Radisson Miyako Hotel, San Francisco, March 12-14, 1999.
"Promoting Faculty Diversity," invited keynote address and workshop, Union College, Schenectady, NY, February 27, 1999. Sponsored by The President's Office and Unitas.
"Strategies for Hiring Underrepresented Faculty," invited keynote address, New York University, December 4, 1998. Sponsored by the Faculty Council and Personnel and Affirmative Action Committee.
"The Public Policy Impact on Access: Role of Research in Addressing Policy," invited panelist (with D. Smith), Twenty-First Annual Graduate Seminar on Higher Education Policy, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Windham Hotel, Miami-Biscayne Bay, Florida, November 4, 1998.
"Keeping our Faculties: Promoting Business as Unusual," keynote address, University of Minnesota, Keeping our Faculties Symposium: Addressing the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty of Color in Higher Education, attended by over 300 higher education scholars and administrators from 36 states and Canada, Radisson Hotel Metrodome, October 18. 1998.
"Faculty of Color in Academe: Cross Cultural Perspectives," paper presentation delivered at The Second World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality sponsored by the Faculty of Aboriginal and Islander Studies, University of South Australia; Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota; and the International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand, September,1998.
"Studies of Faculty of Color in Academe Where Do We Go From Here?," symposium presentation at the 1998 American Educational Research Association Meeting in San Diego, CA, April 13, 1998.
"Bittersweet Success: Faculty of Color in Academe," research paper presentation at the 1997 Association for the Study of Higher Education Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, November 6, 1997.
"Studying Sensitive Faculty Issues," focused dialogue presentation at the 1996 Association for the Study of Higher Education Meeting in Memphis, TN, November 2, 1996.
"Viewing Community College Students Through the Lenses of Gender and Color," paper presented at the 1995 American Educational Research Association Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 20?23, 1995.
"Qualitative Approaches to Community College Research," paper presented at the 1994 Association for the Study of Higher Education Meeting in Tucson, Arizona, November 9-13, 1994.
"Worlds Apart in Higher Education: Reflections on Self as Researcher," paper presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group, Research on Women and Education Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, October 27-29, 1994.
"Socialization of Graduate Students: The Experiences of Graduate Students at Scholarly Conferences," focused discussion at the 1993 Association for the Study of Higher Education Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, November 5, 1993.
"Differences in the Careers of Women, People of Color, New, Senior, and Part?Time Faculty," focused dialogue presentation at the 1992 Association for the Study of Higher Education Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 31, 1992.
"Continuum of Disadvantage: Socialization Experiences of Minority and Majority Women Doctoral Students," presented at the 1992 American Educational Research Association Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 20, 1992.
"A Guest in Someone Else's House: Students of Color on a Predominantly White College Campus," presented at the 1992 American Educational Research Association Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 24, 1992.
"Contrasting Organizational Contexts: Overcoming Barriers to Diversity in Higher Education," presented at the 1992 American Educational Research Association Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 22, 1992.
"Interpretive Research to Address Issues of Ethnic/Racial Diversity in the Community College Context," presented at the annual conference of the Council of Universities and Colleges, Phoenix, Arizona, April 11, 1992.
"Socialization of Minority Women Doctoral Students: A Preliminary Report," presented as part of Distinguished Symposium: Students in American Higher Education??A Multicultural Population for the annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 1, 1990.
"It Takes Two to Transfer," presented at the annual conference of the Council of Universities and Colleges, Seattle, Washington, April 22, 1990.
"A California Case Study: Organizational Determinants of the Transfer of Hispanic Students From Two- to Four-Year Colleges In the Bay Area," presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April 22, 1988.
"Organizational Determinants of the Transfer of Hispanic Students From Two- to Four-Year Colleges," presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington D.C., April 23, 1987.
"The Transfer Status of Non?Transfer Students," presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., April 20, 1987.
"The Structure of Student Communication: Living Within the Network," presented at an annual conference co-sponsored by the American Educational Research Association and the Association for the Study of Higher Education, San Francisco, October 28, 1984.

RESEARCH-BASED INVITED LECTURES &WORKSHOPS

"Faculty and Preparedness: Keys to the New Master Plan," invited panelist for the Center for California Studies Fourteenth Annual Envisioning California Conference, Envisioning a A State of Learning: Moving California's Master Plan for Higher Education into the 21^st Century at the Sacramento Convention Center, September 27, 2002.
"Framing the Picture," invited presentation for the American Council on Education Office of Minorities in Higher Education meeting entitled Marginalization in the Academy? The Contemporary Challenge of the African-American Intellectual at the University of Maryland Conference Center, June 28, 2002.
"Hiring and Retaining Faculty of Color,” invited keynote address for the James Irvine Foundation Campus Diversity Initiative in San Francisco, April 19, 2002.
"The Incorporation Experiences of Faculty of Color in Majority White Institutions: Progress and Challenges," invited opening keynote address for an inter-disciplinary Spencer Foundation funded research workshop at Indiana University in Bloomington, October 26, 2001.
"History and Future of Diversity in Higher Education," invited plenary presented for the 2001 Faculty Association of California Community Colleges conference in San Jose, California, September 29, 2001.
"Building a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Faculty," invited presentation/workshop for the 14^th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE 2001) in Seattle, Washington, May 31-June 4, 2001.
"Faculty Diversity in Theological Schools," invited professional staff in-service presentation for The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 9, 2001.
"The Roles of Women in Higher Education: As Researcher/Scholar, Teacher/Mentor, Administrator/Advocate," invited American Educational Research Association (AERA) presidential panel presentation, 2001 AERA annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, April 10-14, 2001.
"Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure of Faculty of Color: Promoting Business as Unusual, Not
Business as Usual," invited keynote address for the University of Wisconsin system conference on recruitment and retention of faculty of color in Madison, Wisconsin, January 19, 2001.
"Search Committee Processes and Hiring Faculty of Color," invited American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) annual conference presentation introducing Turner monograph to be published by AACU. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 17, 2001.
"Promoting Faculty Diversity," invited keynote address for the 2000 annual joint fellows conference: Illinois Minority Graduate Incentive Program, Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program, and the King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Program. Hosted by Southern Illinois University at Chicago, Illinois, November 10-12, 2000.
"Teaching in a Diverse Classroom" and "Faculty Diversity: Toward an Inclusive Body of Knowledge," invited presentations for The Compact for Faculty Diversity annual meeting, the 2000 Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Orlando, Florida, October 27 and 28, 2000.
"Diversifying Faculty Racial and Ethnic Composition," invited lecture for a University of Minnesota series on Diversity and Multiculturalism in Higher Education sponsored by the Postsecondary Education Policy Studies Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 12, 2000.
"Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Underrepresented Faculty," invited address, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, September 29, 2000.
"Completing the Dissertation and the Degree: Getting Your Work Out in Presentations and Publications," invited speaker in the University of California Educational Research Center (UCERC) seminar for the Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership (JDPEL), Fresno, CA, July 14, 2000.
"Preparing for Life in the Academy: Lessons Learned from Research on Faculty of Color," invited speaker for Preparing Future Faculty Annual Lecture, Arizona State University, April 10, 2000.
"Surviving and Thriving in Graduate and Professional Studies," invited speaker for Achieving Graduate Student Diversity: Who is Responsible? What Works and What Doesn't? Sponsored by the University of California at Los Angeles, November 12, 1999.
"Minority Faculty Recruitment and Retention: Creating Supportive Environments," invited speaker for the 1999 National Communications Association conference department chair breakfast in Chicago, Il., November 5,1999.
"Conversations about Public Policy and Undergraduate Education," forum panelist, University of Minnesota, Morris Campus, October 15, 1997.
"Doing Interviews," invited lecture for American Educational Research Association - Division J, Annual Pre-Conference Seminar, Qualitative Methodology and Postsecondary Research, Chicago, Illinois, March 22?March 23, 1997.
"Personal Narrative as Legitimate Science: The Case for Faculty of Color," invited lecture for Minorities and Public Policy Seminar series, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Policy, University of Minnesota, May 13, 1996.
"Teachers of Color in the Postsecondary Education Context," invited presentation for the 1996 Meeting of the Institute for Multicultural Connections, sponsored by the St. Paul Companies, and the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership, Inc., St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, June 11, 1996.
"Pleasures of Being a Professor and Barriers to be Overcome," invited keynote speech for the 1995 meeting of the Compact for Faculty Diversity sponsored by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the Southern Regional Education Board, and the New England Board of Higher Education, Tucson, Arizona, October 13-15, 1995.
"Students of Color and the Education Pipeline: Post?Secondary Education," invited keynote address for the Minneapolis Pathways Retreat, September 29, 1994.
"Minority Women Doctoral Students," Interview with The Minnesota Women's Press, for section on University of Minnesota Commission on Women, Vol. 2, No. 2, May 22, 1991.
"Diversity Studies at the University of Minnesota School of Education," invited presentation for the annual meeting of the Common Ground Consortium, Minneapolis, November 10, 1990.
"Educational Trends Among Chicanos," presented as part of a lecture series on Chicano Mental Health co-sponsored by The Chicano FelIows Program and Counseling and Psychological Services, Stanford University, January 28, 1986.
"An Experimental Reading Course for College Freshman," (with Carl Spring), presented as part of the University of California and California State University Conference on Learning from Text, Lake Arrowhead, April 15, 1988. Published as internal report by Basic Skills Research Program, University of California, Davis, May 1982.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Disciplinary Service

Appointed, Member of American Association of University Professors Committee L on Historically Black Institutions and the Status of Minorities in the Profession.
2001 Appointed Editorial Board Member, Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education book series. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
2000 Elected to the Board of Directors, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). ASHE is the leading organization promoting research on higher education.
2000 Member, Program Committee for annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), scheduled for November 2-4, 2000 in Seattle, Washington. Coordinator for strand on qualitative methods and chair of panel entitled "Qualitative Approaches to Policy Research."
1999 Consultant, Invited by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Senior Diversity Officers to facilitate discussion on what the consortium can do to better recruit and retain faculty of color on their campuses.
1999 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Presidential appointment to standing committee on The Role and Status of Minorities in Educational Research and Development.
Organizer, Moderator and Chair, The National President's [Clinton] Initiative on Race: Implications for Education, Invited Presidential Session, American Education Research Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 19.
Organized all invited presidential sessions for AERA Division J, including The Future of Higher Education in the 21^st Century, featuring national, eminent scholars as presenters and respondents.
1999 Discussant, Situational and Contextual Identity of Students of Mixed Heritage, Division G, Social Contexts paper session, American Education Research Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 23.
1990-1996 Reviewer, paper proposals for the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and for the American Educational Research Association
1998 Elected Secretary for Division J, Postsecondary Education, American Educational Research Association (AERA).
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Program Co-Chair for Division J, Postsecondary Education.
1998 Elected Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Higher Education, affiliated with the American Association for Higher Education.
1997 Elected Editorial Board Member, The Review of Higher Education, Journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
1997 Reviewer, The Journal of Higher Education.
1997 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Program Vice Chair for Division J, Postsecondary Education, Roundtable and Poster sessions.
1997 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Nominating Committee Member for Division J, Postsecondary Education.
1995 Program Committee Member, Association for the Study of Higher Education Twentieth Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 2-5.
1993 Chair, Association for the Study of Higher Education Newcomers Committee for the 1993 annual meeting held November 4-7, Pittsburgh, PA.
1991 Member, Advisory Board for Foundations of American Higher Education: A Reader in Higher Education: An ASHE Reader, James L. Bess (Ed.), Needham Heights, MA: Ginn Press.
1991 Member, Advisory Board for ASHE reader on Women in Academe: A Reader in Higher Education, and for revision of ASHE reader on the two-year postsecondary institution.
1991 Chair, paper presentation: Workinq with minoritv students, Association for the Study of Higher Education Sixteenth Annual Meeting, November 2.
1990 & 1991 Reviewer, funding proposals for National Science Foundation.
1992 Chair, paper presentation: Institutional and college classroom studies in assessment and evaluation, Division J/Postsecondary Education to be presented at the Educational Research Association meetings in San Francisco, CA, April 23.
Discussant, symposium: Frameworks for assessing the effects of external and organizational factors on the community college transfer process, Division J/Postsecondary Education, to be presented at the American Educational Research Association meetings in San Francisco, CA, April 23.
1989-1995 Advisory Board Member, Association for the Study of Higher Education Reader (selected for two three-year appointments).
Consultant, SRI International, Present and Future Needs of Higher Education in Minnesota.
1986 Consultant, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Faculty Development Grant, student needs assessment survey design (Fall).
Invited Participant, American Educational Research Association National Graduate Student Seminar in Educational Administration, San Francisco, April.
1980-1982 President, Northern California College Reading Association.
1983-1984 Vice-President, Stanford Chapter Phi Delta Kappa.
1983-1984 Student Representative, Area Committee for Program in Administration and Policy Analysis.

Local Institutional Service

2002 Academic Program Coordinator in for Ed.D. in Higher and Postsecondary Education and for Specialization in ELPS Ph.D. in Higher and Postsecondary Education.
2002 Member, Advisory Board, Retaining and Equipping Faculty of Color at ASU (CLTE project). Member, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Programs/Curriculum Committee (3 year term).
2001 Member, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Search Committees.
2001 Member, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty personnel committee, Arizona State University (3 year term).
2001 Panel Respondent, "Colors Straight Up" and "Neglect Not the Children," shown at the Arizona State University College of Education Annual Film Festival, The Celluloid Curriculum, February 3, 2001.
2000 Presenter, "Classroom Challenges for Women and Faculty of Color, " for the Arizona State University Fall Conference entitled The ASU Classroom: Diversity and Learner-Centered Education, ASU Main Memorial Union, September 22, 2000.
2000 Facilitator, Cultural Diversity Discussion Group at the General Orientation for New Teaching Assistants, presented by the ASU Graduate College, August 14, 2000.
2000 Elected, Secretary for the ASU College of Education Council and Assembly.
1999 Member, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Division Director College of Education search committee, Arizona State University.
1999-2000 Member, College of Education Personnel Committee, Arizona State University. Member, College of Education Nadine Mathis Basha Professorship in Early Childhood Education search committee, Arizona State University.
Research Coordinator, Office of the Associate Vice President for Multicultural and Academic Affairs. Chaired several planning and program committees for initiatives such as faculty development workshops and seminars, the Diversity through the Disciplines Open Forum, and the Keeping our Faculties Symposium.
1999 Member, The President’s Multicultural Research Award selection committee. Member, Bush systemwide faculty development grant proposal committee. This grant proposal addresses the needs of part-time/adjunct faculty, non-regular faculty, faculty of color, new faculty, mid-career faculty as well as providing a systematic program to teach the use of technology in the classroom.
1998-1999 Member, Senate Committee for Faculty Affairs, University of Minnesota. Member of the Tenure Subcommittee.
1998-1999 Member, the Josie R. Johnson President's Multicultural Service Award Selection Committee.
1998 Table facilitator and reporter, Faculty Consultative Committee and American Association of University Professors Dinners, to promote collegial conversations about the University and the professoriate. McNair Scholar Mentor, providing a guided research experience for an undergraduate student in preparation for graduate school.
1990-1992 Member, College of Education and Human Development Committee on Diversity.
1990-1996 Member, University of Minnesota Commission on Women.
1994 Planning Committee Member and Panelist for a National Conference on Race Relations and Civil Rights in the Post Reagan?Bush Era to be held on October 16-18, at the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
1994 Member, University of Minnesota Biennial Budget Advisory Committee.
1993 Member, College of Education Faculty Consultative Committee, elected.
1993 Member, Chicano/Latino/Hispanic advisory committee to University of Minnesota President.
1990-1991 Faculty Mentor, University of Minnesota Academic Scholars Program (1990-91).
1990-1991 Task Force on Ed.D. in Vocational Technical Education (1990-91).
1992 Member, College of Education Academic Senate, elected Fall.
1991-1992 Faculty participant, 1991-92 Program for teaching excellence, a three-year program funded by the Bush Foundation focusing on the improvement of classroom teaching.
1992-1993 Chair, Diversity Task Force for Minnesota Administrator's Academy.
Co-chair, Educational Policy and Administration Department Committee on Diversity/Urban Education.
Member, Steering Committee, Bush Professional Development Project on Excellence and Diversity in Teaching (also serve as reviewer for Excellence and Diversity Teaching Grants Program), a three-year program to support the development of a multicultural, gender?inclusive curriculum at the University of Minnesota.
1989-1992 Member, College of Education Committee on Educational Policy.
1988-1989 Faculty Participant, Minority Teacher Development Project, University of Minnesota, College of Education.
1988-1989 Participant, Inter-Disciplinary Faculty Study Group on Foundations of Vocational Education.

Outreach

Coordinator, 2002 Central Valley Education Summit bringing together business, elected officials, and k-16 educators to address the specific educational needs of your in the area held at California State University, Stanislaus on March 15, 2002.
Member, National Advisory Board for program planning of the Second Keeping our Faculties: Addressing the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty of Color Symposium held at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus April 21-23, 2002.
Convened Bridge Project Policy Briefing and Roundtable, sponsored by the College of Education, Arizona State University. Brought together policy scholars from Stanford University and representatives from Arizona public school districts, community colleges, four-year colleges, the Department of Education, the Governor's Office, and representatives from the Western Interstate Commission of Higher Education. February 7,2000.
1996-present Advisory Board Member, Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI), project funded by the PEW Charitable Trusts to increase the presence of Hispanic faculty in theological schools and seminaries.
1994-1999 Consultant, Minneapolis Pathways Coalition for Educational Opportunity, collaboration of education, business, government, and community based organizations working together to increase graduation rates of at?risk youth from institutions of higher education. Minneapolis Pathways is funded by the Ford Foundation.
1988-1996 Member, Research and Information Working Group, Minnesota Minority Education Partnership.
1996 Evaluation Consultant, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, "Minority Graduate Student Professional Socialization."
1994 Co-coordinator, Institute for Educational Leadership: Education Policy Fellowship Program. Involves work with K-postsecondary and human service agency staff.
1992-1993 Develop diversity training program for faculty and staff at North Hennepin Community College.
1991-1993 Conduct focus groups to assess campus climate for students of color enrolled in Minnesota community colleges.
1992 Panelist, Critical Thinking and Diversity Issues, Minnesota Community Colleges, Wilder Forest Conference Center, February 13-14.
1991 Presenter, Getting Acquainted with Diversity Workshop, Gustavus Adolphus College, Conference Hall, October 12.
1991 Participant, University of Minnesota All-University Forum on Diversity, Earle Brown Center, May 29.
1975-1981 Member, Yolo County Health Council Woodland, California.
1973-1976 Member, Board of Directors, Campus/Community Ministry (cross denominational), University of California, Davis.

References: On Request