Diversity in Higher Education
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall
Sylvia Hurtado is a professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and director of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written over 100 publications that focus on student development in college, sociology of education, and diversity in higher education. She is known for her publications on campus climate as it affects different racial/ethnic groups, and also coauthored Enacting Diverse Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass), Intergroup Dialogue (University of Michigan Press), and Defending Diversity (University of Michigan Press). She served as president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2005.
Black Issues in Higher Education (Diverse magazine) named her among the Top 15 Influential Faculty who personify scholarship, service, and integrity, and whose work has had substantial impact on the academy. She has conducted several national projects on diverse learning environments and retention, diversification of the scientific workforce, preparing students for a diverse democracy, and innovation in undergraduate education. She grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and received her degrees from Princeton in sociology (AB), the Harvard Graduate School of Education (EdM), and UCLA (PhD in education).
Terrell L. Strayhorn is professor of higher education at Ohio State University, where he also serves as director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise, senior research associate in the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, and faculty affiliate in the Todd A. Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male and the Criminal Justice Research Center.
Strayhorn maintains an active and highly visible research agenda focusing on major policy issues in education: student access and achievement, equity and diversity, impact of college on students, and student learning and development. Specifically, his research and teaching interests center on two major foci: (a) assessing student learning and development outcomes and the ways in which college affects students, and (b) identifying and understanding factors that enable or inhibit the success of historically underrepresented, misrepresented, and otherwise vulnerable populations in education, with a particular accent on issues of race, class, and gender and how they affect the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities, college men, economically disadvantaged individuals, and marginalized groups in postsecondary education.
He is sole author or lead editor of eight books/volumes, including The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students (2010), College Students’ Sense of Belonging (2012), Living at the Intersections (2013), and Theoretical Frameworks in College Student Research (2013), among others.
Strayhorn received a BA from the University of Virginia (UVA), an MEd in educational policy from the Curry School of Education at UVA, and a PhD in higher education from Virginia Tech.
Meredith Raimondo is special assistant to the president for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Title IX coordinator, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and associate professor of comparative American studies at Oberlin College.
