Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration
January 13, 2020
I. ACTION ITEMS A. Approval of the Minutes of the November 25, 2019 Meeting
B. POLICY CALENDAR 1. Committee Report
2. Naming of the Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship Fund at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
3. Naming of the Jeannette Bercovici Coin Group Study Room at Hunter College
4. Naming of The Cooperman Challenge at Hunter College
5. Naming of The Cooperman Dress for Success Program at Hunter College
6. Naming of the Joan G. Masket and Sherman Pincus High Bar at Hunter College
7. Naming of The Johanna and Bridget Brady Excellence in Nursing Endowment at Queensborough Community College
8. Appointment of Miguel Aragon with Early Tenure at the College of Staten Island
9. Appointment of Sean Edgecomb with Early Tenure at the College of Staten Island
10. Appointment of David Schwab with Early Tenure at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York 11. Appointment of Tamara Schneider, Associate Vice Chancellor and University Vice Provost for Research at The City University of New York
12. Appointment of Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bronx Community College BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
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The meeting was called to order by Committee Vice Chair Ken Sunshine at 4:36 p.m.
The following people were present:
Committee Members: Trustee Staff: Hon. Ken Sunshine, Vice Chair Senior Advisor to the Chancellor and Secretary Hon. Michael Arvanites Gayle M. Horwitz Jill O’Donnell-Tormey Interim General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor Pamela S. Silverblatt Faculty Member: Deputy Secretary Anne Fenton Prof. Kerin Coughlin, faculty representative Assistant Secretary Towanda Lewis Ms. Fenella Ramsami Student Member: Mr. Hussein Abdul, student representative University Staff: Chancellor Félix Matos Rodriguez COP Liaison: Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating President William J. Fritz Officer (EVC&COO) Hector Batista Senior Vice Chancellor and Special Counsel Trustee Observers: Glenda G. Grace Hon. Martin Burke Interim Vice Chancellor Margaret Egan Hon. Timothy Hunter Interim Vice Chancellor Andrea Shapiro Davis Senior Associate General Counsel Katherine Observer: Raymond Prof. Kimora Acting University Executive Deputy to the Vice Chancellor Dona Roy Director of Program Management Siva Sivasingam
The agenda items were considered and acted upon in the following order:
I. ACTION ITEMS:
A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 7, 2019. Moved by Committee Vice Chair Sunshine and seconded by Trustee Jill O’Donnell-Tormey, the minutes were approved as submitted. Mr. Hussein Abdul abstained.
B. POLICY CALENDAR
1. Committee Report. Interim Vice Chancellor (IVC) Margaret Egan requested the approval of the Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration (CFSA) Report that consist of 109 total actions, including 19 appointments and 48 reappointments—59 are instructional and 47 are Executive Compensation Plan (ECP) and 10 were at Vice President level and above.
Mr. Abdul inquired about the screening protocol of the CFSA report. IVC Egan responded that the report is a compilation of actions from around the University that meet a certain threshold. In prior years, there had been this behemoth of Chancellor’s University Report, and every Human Resources (HR) action was in the personnel section. As a result of working with the Board and the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of Human Resources Management whittled down the report to what should go before the full Board for approval—senior-level appointments and actions from the colleges and The Central Office. Initially, the actions are put into CUNYfirst then HR pulls that data to generate the
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CFSA report and after the report is approved at the committee level for submission to the Board, the actions are approved by the full Board for implementation.
Moved by Committee Vice Chair Sunshine and seconded by Trustee O’Donnell-Tormey, and following discussion, the item was approved for submission to the Board. Trustee Michael Arvanites abstained.
2. Approval of the 2016-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 237 and The City University of New York. Interim General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor Pamela Silverblatt stated that this resolution approves the successor 2016-2021 collective bargaining agreement negotiated between The City University of New York and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 237. The agreement covers a fifty-seven month period, and provides for four 2 percent wage increases, as well as increases in welfare fund, uniform allowance, and certain other supplementary benefits.
Moved by Committee Vice Chair Sunshine and seconded by Trustee Arvanites, and following discussion, the item was approved for submission to the Board. Committee Vice Chair Sunshine abstained.
3. Distribution of Optional Retirement Plan and Tax Deferred Annuity Plan Generated Fees to Plan Participants. IVC Egan stated that in 2015, CUNY was authorized to establish Revenue Credit Accounts for the Optional Retirement Plan and the Tax Deferred Annuity Plans. Continued negotiations with TIAA led to credits being accrued as a plan Asset and these accruals have resulted in a substantial balance. The University has determined the most equitable course of action is to credit these balances to the participants’ accounts in each respective plan while continuing to allow the use of the fund in each Revenue Credit Account to pay expenses incurred in the administration of the Plan of which it is a part. The five methods that TIAA employs in distributing these revenue credit account balances to participants via Plan Servicing Credits were reviewed, and the options range from allocations based on participants’ balances, number of participants, or variations of pro-rata incorporating the consideration of revenue sharing. To achieve a reasonably equitable allocation for the retirement plan participants, it is recommended to proceed with an asset-based option proportionate to investment revenue share, and continue this practice annually.
Moved by Committee Vice Chair Sunshine and seconded by Trustee O’Donnell-Tormey, and following discussion, the item was unanimously approved for submission to the Board.
4. Naming of the Professor Ercument Ozizmir Endowed Commencement Award for Excellence in Mathematics at the College of Staten Island. 5. Naming of the Maralyn G. Cohn LGBTQ Community Space at Hunter College. 6. Naming of the Grateful Auditor Spaces at Hunter College. 7. Naming of the Elise C. Tepper Early Childhood Lab at Hunter College. 8. Naming of the Zankel Arts Hub at Hunter College. 9. Naming of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. Scoreboard at the Aquatics Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Associate Vice Chancellor Elina Gorelik presented for approval consideration, (6) naming of University scholarships and facilities.
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Prof. Kerin Coughlin confirmed that the naming determinations were accordance with the revised naming guidelines.
Moved by Committee Vice Chair Sunshine and seconded by Mr. Abdul, and following discussion, items I.B.4 through I.B.9 were unanimously approved for submission to the Board.
10. Appointment of Susan Perkins with Immediate Tenure at The City College of New York. 11. Appointment of Alison Griffiths as Distinguished Professor at Baruch College. 12. Appointment of Alexandra Juhasz as Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College. 13. Appointment of Yingli Tian as Distinguished Professor at The City College of New York. 14. Appointment of Joel Hamkins as Distinguished Professor at The College of Staten Island. 15. Appointment of Tyehimba Jess as Distinguished Professor at The College of Staten Island. 16. Appointment of Patricia Smith as Distinguished Professor at The College of Staten Island.
Committee Vice Chair Sunshine emphasized that Distinguished Professors are scholars who bring something unique, special, and distinct to the University and the students.
Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost José Luis Cruz presented and highlighted the characteristics of the aforementioned candidates for early tenure and as Distinguished Professor of University faculty.
Moved by Committee Vice Chair Sunshine and seconded by Trustee O’Donnell-Tormey, and following discussion, items I.B.10 through I.B.16 were unanimously approved for submission to the Board.
17. Appointment of Allen Y. Lew as Senior Vice Chancellor of the Office of Facilities, Planning, and Construction Management at The City University of New York. 18. Appointment of Celia Lloyd as Vice President of Student Affairs at The City College of New York. 19. Appointment Jacqueline Clark as Senior Vice President of Administration and Finance/Chief Operating Officer at Medgar Evers College.
IVC Egan and Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer Hector Batista asked the Committee to approve the executive level appointments of Allen Lew as Senior Vice Chancellor of the Office of Facilities, Planning, and Construction Management, Celia Lloyd as Vice President of Student Affairs at The City College of New York, and Jacqueline Clark as Senior Vice President of Administration and Finance/Chief Operating Officer at Medgar Evers College.
Moved by Committee Vice Chair Sunshine and seconded by Trustee Arvanites, and following discussion, items I.B.17 through I.B.19 were unanimously approved for submission to the Board.
II. INFORMATION ITEM:
A. Diversity Dashboard Demonstration
Acting University Executive Deputy to the Vice Chancellor Dona Roy gave an overview on the next steps of the CUNY Diversity Dashboard, noting that the faculty and staff diversity
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dashboard can be used as a performance metric tool to track CUNY’s progress towards diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
A discussion about the dashboard followed, including expected rollout date, real time feedback, and diversity initiatives.
Prof. Coughlin noted that on behalf of the University Faculty Senate, she is appreciative of the progress of the dashboard, as it appears to be an excellent resource, and of the collaborative manner in which IVC Egan, Deputy Secretary Anne Fenton, and Acting University Executive Deputy to the Vice Chancellor Roy have responded to faculty input.
Committee Vice Chair Sunshine moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was seconded by Trustee Arvanites and the meeting was adjourned at 5:27 p.m.
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Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Approve the Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration (CFSA) Report
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, the colleges and university central office appoint faculty, executives, and staff to ensure academic and administrative operations continue seamlessly and new initiatives are implemented effectively; and
WHEREAS, faculty are evaluated and reappointed on a systematic basis, sometimes resulting in the awarding of tenure, in order to retain superior faculty; and
WHEREAS, faculty are granted fellowship leave in order to conduct research, improve their teaching, or conduct creative work, thereby improving the students’ experience and university’s success; and
WHEREAS, other personnel actions, including executive level appointments, appointments of named chair, appointments waiving bylaws requirements, and appointments with 211 waivers and 212 notices, are considered as appropriate to guarantee university and campus goals and commitments are achieved;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the CFSA Report prepared by the Office of Human Resources Management and presented, be approved effective February 4, 2020. I-B-1 Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration (CFSA) Report
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Baruch College Appointment Campus Facilities & Operations Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Asst VP Facil Asst Vice Manganello,Lawrence ECP (Not Base Sal $164,000.00 1/2/2020 Planning and Ops President Acting)
Psychology Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Professor Professor Schneider,Tamera Tenured Base Sal $128,485.00 11/18/2019 Appt w/tenure
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Bronx CC Reappointment Art And Music Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Briggs,Monique Tenured Base Sal $78,477.00 9/1/2020
Asst Professor Asst Professor Vuagniaux Tenured Base Sal $78,477.00 9/1/2020
Zurweller,Anne
Chem Earth and Environ Science Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
College Lab College Lab Tech Ankamah,Emmanuel Tenured Base Sal $57,281.00 9/1/2020 Tech-Class
Asst Professor Asst Professor Saint-Hilaire,Dickens Tenured Base Sal $78,477.00 9/1/2020
Assc Professor Assc Professor Skaggs,Sheldon Tenured Base Sal $97,628.00 9/1/2020
Communications Arts/Sciences Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Assc Professor Assc Professor Fisher,Teresa Tenured Base Sal $87,495.00 9/1/2020
Asst Professor Asst Professor Nelson,Elissa Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
Asst Professor Asst Professor Socas,John Tenured Base Sal $84,354.00 9/1/2020
Education & Academic Literacy Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
College Lab College Lab Tech Jean-charles,Garland Tenured Base Sal $50,069.00 9/1/2020 Tech-Class
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Engineering, Physics & Tech Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
College Lab College Lab Tech Perez,Javier Tenured Base Sal $54,003.00 9/1/2020 Tech-Class
Library Resources Center Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Asst Professor Andrews,Carl Tenured Base Sal $84,354.00 9/1/2020 Professor-Librarian
Math & Computer Sciences Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Antonakos,Evangelia Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
Nursing/Allied Health Sciences Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Ortiz,Annette Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
Social Science Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Mcspadden,Emalinda Tenured Base Sal $75,110.00 9/1/2020
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Brooklyn College Appointment Diversity and Equity Programs Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Exec Chf Diversity Asst Administrator Brown,George ECP Base Sal $140,000.00 1/3/2020 6/2/2020 Off-AstAdm Acting >=6 Mo Or
Prior Ben
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CUNY GradSch ofPub H and H Pol Fellowship Leave - Full Year Envirnmntl, OccuptNl & Geospl Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Assc Professor Assc Professor Maroko,Andrew Tenured Base Sal $97,628.00 1/27/2020
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Central Office Appointment Chancellor's Office Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Univ Exec Chf of Univ Asst Bailey,Tiffany ECP (Not Base Sal $125,000.00 11/18/2019 Staff-UAstAdm Administrator Acting)
Internal Audit Ops Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Exec Chief of Assc Administrator Chambers,Vernitta ECP (Not Base Sal $160,000.00 11/18/2019 Appointment with Staff-AscAdm Acting) a Search Waiver effective November 18, 2019
VC for Research Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Univ Asst Dn Univ Asst Dean MacLachlan,Effie ECP Base Sal $137,000.00 8/10/2019 8/9/2020 Academic Affairs Acting >=6 Mo Or Prior Ben
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City College Appointment Affirmative Action Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Exec Advisor to the Asst Administrator Cuozzo,Diana ECP (Not Base Sal $138,254.00 12/1/2019
President Acting)
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College of Staten Island Fellowship Leave - Full Year Psychology Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Gillespie-Lynch,Kristen Tenured Base Sal $87,495.00 1/27/2020 7/31/2020 Fellowship Leave Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 @ 80%
Base Sal $90,871.00 1/29/2021 7/31/2021 Assc Professor Assc Professor Karasik,Lana Tenured Base Sal $87,495.00 1/27/2020 7/31/2020
Base Sal $90,871.00 1/29/2021 7/31/2021
Social Work Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Chaudhry,Vandana Tenured Base Sal $87,495.00 8/26/2020 8/24/2021 Fellowship Leave Fall 2020 & Spring
2021 @ 80%
Reappointment Educational Studies Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Someki,Fumio Tenured Base Sal $84,678.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
tenure
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English Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Bishop,Jason Tenured Base Sal $84,678.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
tenure
Library Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Assc Professor Falloon,Kerry Tenured Base Sal $87,495.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
Professor-Librarian tenure Assc Assc Professor Forrestal,Valerie Tenured Base Sal $84,678.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
Professor-Librarian tenure
Media Culture Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Peck,Reece Tenured Base Sal $84,678.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
tenure
Psychology Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Denton,Ellenge Tenured Base Sal $87,495.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
tenure Assc Professor Assc Professor Wagner,Jennifer Tenured Base Sal $94,248.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
tenure
Sociology and Anthropology Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Goner,Ozlem Tenured Base Sal $84,678.00 9/1/2020 Reappointed with
tenure
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Graduate Center Fellowship Leave - Full Year MA/Ph.D. Prgm in Comp Lit Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Distinguished Dist Professor Crapanzano,Vincent Instructors Base Sal $128,485.00 1/27/2020 1/28/2021 Professor and others Stipend(D) $28,594.00 1/27/2020 1/28/2021 PSC
Transfer from Another College MA/Ph.D. Prgm in Pol Sci Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Asst Professor Asst Professor Fortner,Michael Track Base Sal $90,149.00 1/27/2020 8/25/2020 Tenure
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Guttman Community College Appointment College Effectiveness Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Dn Instl Asst Dean Hertz,Elisa ECP (Not Base Sal $148,500.00 11/4/2019
Resh-Stdt Assmt Acting)
Provost VP Academic Affairs Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Dn Diversity Asst Dean McMath,Lavita ECP (Not Base Sal $142,000.00 12/2/2019
Acting)
Resignation President Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes President President Evenbeck,Scott ECP (Not Base Sal $228,000.00 10/1/2020 University Acting) Professor appointment at Baruch College - 10/1/20-9/30/2025
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Hunter College Appointment Budget And Planning Operations Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Exec Dir Business Assc Administrator Stec,Justin ECP Base Sal $160,000.00 11/20/2019 11/19/2020 Fin-AscAdm Acting >=6 Mo Or
Prior Ben
Romance Languages Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Bocquillon,Michele Tenured Base Sal $100,211.00 10/10/2019 Employee rehired after rescinding Travia leave and changing retirement date from 10/10/19 to
11/20/1
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Fellowship Leave - Full Year Computer Science Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Professor Professor Epstein,Susan Tenured Base Sal $128,485.00 1/27/2020 Base Sal $128,485.00 8/26/2020 Fellowship Leave Fall 2020 & Spring
2020 @ 80%. Professor Professor St. John,Katherine Tenured Base Sal $128,485.00 1/27/2020 Base Sal $128,485.00 8/26/2020 Fellowship Leave Fall 2020 & Spring
2020 @ 80%.
School Of Social Work Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Lalayants,Marina Tenured Base Sal $97,628.00 1/27/2020 Fellowship Leave Spring 2020 & Fall 2020 @ 80%. Base Sal $97,628.00 8/26/2020 Fellowship Leave Spring 2020 & Fall
2020 @ 80%.
Urban Policy and Planning Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Professor Professor Gross,Jill Tenured Base Sal $108,683.00 1/27/2020 Fellowship Leave Fall 2020 & Spring
2020 @ 80%.
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Reappointment Anthropology Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Asst Professor Asst Professor Clemente Tenured Base Sal $87,075.00 9/1/2015 Rehired as a the Pesudo,Ignasi result of a select faculty committee decision with tenure effective
9/1/15 with ret
Resignation Budget And Planning Operations Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Exec Dir Business Assc Administrator LeBorious,Courtney ECP (Not Base Sal $160,000.00 11/27/2019
Fin-AscAdm Acting)
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John Jay College Appointment Human Resources Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Exec Dir Human Assc Administrator Kiselyuk,Ella ECP Base Sal $170,000.00 11/1/2019 10/31/2020 Res-AscAdm Acting >=6 Mo Or
Prior Ben
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LaGuardia CC Appointment VP For Academic Affairs Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Assc Provost-AVP Asst Vice Eynon,Bret ECP (Not Base Sal $149,891.00 7/17/2019
President Acting)
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Law School Appointment Dean's Office - President Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
PSch Exec Dir Prof School Asst Steckler,Tamara ECP Base Sal $150,000.00 11/4/2019 CSqLaw-AstAdm Admin Acting >=6 Mo Or
Prior Ben
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Lehman College Reappointment Computer Science Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Assc Professor Assc Professor Johnson,Matthew Tenured Base Sal $97,628.00 9/1/2020
Nursing Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Tesoro,Mary Tenured Base Sal $90,149.00 9/1/2020
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Queens College Fellowship Leave - Half Year Secondary Ed & Youth Services Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes Assc Professor Assc Professor Caraballo,Limarys Tenured Base Sal $90,871.00 1/27/2020 Flshp leave Spring
2020@ 80%.
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Queensborough CC Reappointment Biological Science & Geology Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Roblodowski,Christoph Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
er
Chemistry Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Wei,Sujun Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
English Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Toohey,Elizabeth Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
Asst Professor Asst Professor Tuszynska,Agnieszka Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
Asst Professor Asst Professor Ye,Weier Tenured Base Sal $84,354.00 9/1/2020
Health, Physical Ed & Dance Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Armstrong,Daniel Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
Mathematics & Computer Science Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Bulawa,Andrew Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
Asst Professor Asst Professor King,Carolyn Tenured Base Sal $84,354.00 9/1/2020
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Nursing Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Pecinka,Kathleen Tenured Base Sal $90,149.00 9/1/2020
Physics Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Damas,Marie Tenured Base Sal $84,354.00 9/1/2020
Social Sciences Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Smith,Lakersha Tenured Base Sal $84,354.00 9/1/2020
Speech Communication & Theatre Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
Asst Professor Asst Professor Jimenez,Christopher Tenured Base Sal $81,855.00 9/1/2020
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York College Termination-Executive Institutional Advancemnt Title Functional Title Name Type Pay Component Compensation Eff From Eff To Notes
VP Institl Vice President Stokes,Shereitte ECP (Not Base Sal $201,824.00 11/15/2019
Advancement Acting)
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Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Name the Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship Fund at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, Helen Frankenthaler was a postwar American artist known for her contributions to abstract expressionist painting and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is committed to supporting promising graduate students studying painting and art history; and
WHEREAS, On November 15, 2019, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation made a commitment of $500,000 to the Graduate Center Foundation to be paid in full by December 31, 2019; and
WHEREAS, This gift is to establish a restricted, permanent endowment fund to provide fellowships for one or more students enrolled in the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in Art History at The Graduate Center, with a preference given to those concentrating on the history of modern art; and
WHEREAS, To the extent that funds are not required to support students in their first five years of study, the fellowships can support one or more students in the sixth year of study as a dissertation completion fellowship; and
WHEREAS, Funds may be used to defray the costs incurred in connection with the program, including, but not limited to, tuition, housing, books, related administrative expenses, and research expenses (including travel costs); and
WHEREAS, The Graduate Center will select recipients of the fellowships based on financial need and academic merit, fellowships will be non-renewable and each recipient will be referred to as a “Frankenthaler Fellow,” in perpetuity; and
WHEREAS, if a fellowship recipient discontinues his/her studies before the end of the first semester of the academic year, The Graduate Center will select another student to receive the remainder of the balance for the second semester of the academic year
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York approve naming of the Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship Fund at The Graduate Center at The City University of New York.
EXPLANATION: A board member of the Graduate Center Foundation was pivotal in making this gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation possible. Therefore, in recognition of this generous donation, the Graduate Center enthusiastically recommends the naming of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship Fund at The Graduate Center at The City University of New York. Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Name the Jeannette Bercovici Coin Group Study Room at Hunter College
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, Jeannette Bercovici Coin graduated from Hunter College in 1932 and went on to receive her graduate degree from New York University; and
WHEREAS, In addition to serving as the Chair of the Foreign Language Department at Louis P. Brandeis High School, she was also a lecturer at Hunter College; and
WHEREAS, Jeannette Bercovici Coin passed away on February 27, 2011 and to honor his aunt’s memory, her nephew Martin Kaplan made a gift of $40,000 to the Hunter College Foundation on October 17, 2019; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Kaplan’s donation has been paid in full and is in support of the renovation of and the activities in the Leon & Toby Cooperman Library; and
WHEREAS, The Library serves as a crucial resource for Hunter’s students and offers the entire College community access to a wide variety of services and resources, including spaces for studying; and
WHEREAS, The study rooms on the 7th floor of the Library, including room 703, provide space for students to work and study in small groups
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York hereby approves the naming of study room 703 on the 7th floor of the Leon & Toby Cooperman Library at Hunter College the Jeannette Bercovici Coin Group Study Room.
EXPLANATION: In recognition of Martin Kaplan’s generous donation and the legacy of Hunter’s alumna Jeannette Bercovici Coin, the Hunter College Foundation enthusiastically recommends the naming of the Jeannette Bercovici Coin Group Study Room in the Leon & Toby Cooperman Library at Hunter College. Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Name The Cooperman Challenge at Hunter College
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, Leon and Toby Cooperman graduated from Hunter College in 1964, where Toby served as Class President and Leon served as Vice President; and
WHEREAS, Throughout their lives Mr. and Mrs. Cooperman remained committed supporters of their alma mater and have dedicated resources to advancing educational opportunities for Hunter College students; and
WHEREAS, To date The Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation’s generous donations to the Hunter College Foundation include $15,000,000 to support Hunter’s Leon & Toby Cooperman Library, $10,000,000 to support the Cooperman Scholarship Endowment Fund, and $3,000,000 to the Leon Cooperman Pre-Business Program; and
WHEREAS, On November 19, 2019 The Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation made a challenge grant of $1,500,000 to the Hunter College Foundation in support of Hunter’s 150th Anniversary Campaign and its ambitious goal of engaging new donors; and
WHEREAS, The purpose of this grant, to be called The Cooperman Challenge, is to encourage new donors to give to the Hunter College Foundation and to inspire existing donors to increase their giving by offering a match in honor of College’s 150th Anniversary; and
WHEREAS, The Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation will complete this commitment in four installments by March 31, 2021 in accordance with the challenge grant guidelines, which require the Hunter College Foundation to secure on or prior to the due date of each installment donations from other sources not previously committed to the Hunter College Foundation or the College but given expressly as part of the Anniversary Campaign NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York hereby approves the naming of The Cooperman Challenge at Hunter College.
EXPLANATION: In recognition of the extraordinary generosity of the Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation, the Hunter College Foundation enthusiastically recommends the naming of The Cooperman Challenge at Hunter College.
Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Name The Cooperman Dress For Success Program At Hunter College
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, Hunter alumni Leon and Toby Cooperman have been dedicated supporters of their alma mater for many decades and to date their family foundation has contributed over $28,000,000 to the Hunter College Foundation; and
WHEREAS, After graduating from Hunter, Mr. Cooperman earned his MBA from Columbia University and began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co, becoming a General Partner and eventually founding his own hedge fund, Omega Advisors; and
WHEREAS, Both Mr. and Mrs. Cooperman, having been brought up in modest circumstances in the Bronx, are particularly aware of the needs of Hunter’s diverse student population, two thirds of whom come from low income households and may be unable to afford the professional attire necessary for job or graduate school interviews, internships, and conferences; and
WHEREAS, In support of Hunter College’s mission to prepare students to excel in their professional pursuits, the Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation has pledged $100,000 to Hunter College Foundation to provide approximately 50 students and recent graduates every year with the support needed to assemble a professional wardrobe and to fund a program coordinator to advise students in appropriate wardrobe selection and professional etiquette; and
WHEREAS, Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation pledge will be paid in three installments, the first of which in the amount of $25,000 will be completed by December 31, 2019 and the remaining payments of $50,000 and $25,000 will be made by June 31, 2020 and December 31, 2020, respectively
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York hereby approve the naming of the Cooperman Dress for Success Program at Hunter College. EXPLANATION: In recognition of the extraordinary generosity of the Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation, the Hunter College Foundation enthusiastically recommends the naming of the Cooperman Dress for Success Program at Hunter College.
Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Name the Joan G. Masket and Sherman Pincus High Bar at Hunter College
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, Joan G. Masket is an alumna of Hunter College’s Class of 1953, who has been a longtime supporter of her alma mater and its alumni community, having previously served as a Trustee of the Hunter College Foundation and as a member of the Autism Advisory Board; and
WHEREAS, The late Joan T. Pincus was an alumna of Hunter College’s Class of 1959 and a generous funder of the Joan Pincus Scholarship, as part of Hunter College’s Mother’s Day Campaign; and
WHEREAS, On October 29, 2019, Joan G. Masket and Sherman Pincus, the widower of Joan T. Pincus, pledged $25,000 to the Hunter College Foundation for the purpose of supporting the Library Fund; and
WHEREAS, The Leon & Toby Cooperman Library serves as a crucial resource for Hunter’s students and offers the entire College community access to a wide variety of services and resources, including spaces for studying; and
WHEREAS, The 6th floor of the Library provides communal meeting space for students to work and study in groups, while the high bar area of the 6th floor is a space that encourages independent study and concentration; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Masket and Mr. Pincus have completed 50% of their commitment to date and will fulfill the pledge with a payment of $12,500 by June 15, 2020;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York hereby approve the naming of the Joan G. Masket and Sherman Pincus High Bar on the 6th floor of the Leon & Toby Cooperman Library at Hunter College.
EXPLANATION: In recognition of the generous contribution by Joan G. Masket and Sherman Pincus, Hunter College Foundation enthusiastically recommends the naming of the Joan G. Masket and Sherman Pincus High Bar on the 6th floor of the Leon & Toby Cooperman Library at Hunter College.
Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Name The Johanna and Bridget Brady Excellence in Nursing Endowment at Queensborough Community College
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, John Brady is a Vietnam War veteran, who spent six years serving in the U.S. Air Force in Strategic Air Command; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Brady attended Queensborough Community College in the 1990s, where he took evening non-credit ground school pilot refresher courses; and
WHEREAS, In November, 2019, Mr. Brady made a gift of $52,000 to the Queensborough Community College Fund, Inc. to establish an endowed fund to help offset the testing and licensing expenses for Queensborough Community College nursing students; and
WHEREAS, The eligible nursing students would be enrolled in the Associate in Applied Science Degree Program for Nursing (A.A.S) and covered expenses would include: license and fees for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), preparatory review courses, and NCLEX testing fees; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Brady was inspired to make this generous gift by the memory of his late first and second wives, who were both nurse practitioners; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Brady has suffered a great deal of personal loss, having lost both spouses as well as a stepdaughter who died in a plane crash, but he remains resilient and committed to helping young people looking to follow a career path in nursing;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York approve the naming of the The Johanna and Bridget Brady Excellence in Nursing Endowment at Queensborough Community College.
EXPLANATION: In recognition of Mr. Brady’s generousity and his support of QCC’s nursing students, Queensborough Community College and Queensborough Community College Fund, Inc. enthusiastically recommend the naming of the The Johanna and Bridget Brady Excellence in Nursing Endowment. Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Award Miguel Aragon with Early Tenure at the College of Staten Island with a Waiver of Bylaw 6.2.b
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, Professor Miguel Aragon is a prolific studio artist who presented his artwork in seven solo exhibitions, two two-person shows, 30 curated exhibitions, 26 juried exhibitions, and 14 invited exhibitions; and
WHEREAS, According to a reviewer from a prominent East Coast university, Professor Aragon’s “reputation is substantive, and the variety and scope of his activity warrants his serious consideration as a committed and upcoming artist” and “he is well on his way of attaining national and even international distinction through his creative scholarship”; and
WHEREAS, Professor Aragon has been published in three books and six exhibition catalogs and was awarded the Otis Phillbrick Memorial Prize, which resulted in placement of his work into the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; and
WHEREAS, Professor Aragon’s work has been added to the permanent collections of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, and the Wichita Falls Museum of Art in Texas; and
WHEREAS, Professor Aragon is the lone full-time instructor in the printmaking field at CSI and is widely regarded as an enaged and popular instructor whose series of printmaking courses are well enrolled and is the recipient of consistently positive evaluations by students and peers; and
WHEREAS, Professor Aragon has a strong record of service to his department, to CSI, and CUNY, where he serves as a member of the CUNY Arts Advisory Board, the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for Global Engagement, and the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Latin American, Caribbean and Latina/o Studies Program, as well as coordinates the Student Art Gallery; and
WHEREAS, during Professor Aragon’s time at CSI, he has produced a body of work tt ha is innovative, makes strong social and political statements, and has been very well received by the printmaking community, while his strong records of teaching and service underscore why the Department and the College strongly support his retention, tenure, and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that Miguel Aragon be appointed as a Professor with tenure in the Department of Performing and Creative Arts at the College of Staten Island, effective February 4, 2020 with a waiver of Bylaw 6.2.b, subject to financial ability.
EXPLANATION: Along with his impactful contributions as an exceptional educator, the wide interest in, and endorsement of, Miguel Aragon’s work underscores that he is an important and emerging artist, certainly one that CSI should retain. College of Staten Island/CUNY
CURRICULUMVITAE
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I. NAME ___,_ M"'i,,,,g.,,ue=l'---'A�.'---'A�r=ango=· n"------DEPARTMENT ___,P '-'C"'A'-'------CURRENT TITLE Assistant Professor CURRENT SALARY _____ (Indicate whether Lecturer, CLT, Research Associate, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor)
2. RECOMMENDATION FOR (check all that apply) EFFECTIVE DATE _____
__ Initial appointment __ Fourth Reappointment X Tenure __ First Reappointment __ Fifth Reappointment CCE for Lecturer
__ Second Reappointment _X_ Sixth Reappointment X Promotion to Associate Professor
__ Third Reappointment __ Seventh Reappointment Promotion to Professor
Promotion to Senior CLT
3. HIGHER EDUCATION
DEGREES (Institutions, dates attended, degree and field, date conferred)
2012 MFA University of Texas at Austin (Printmaking) Aug. 2009-May 2012 2002 BFA University of Texas at El Paso (Printmaking & Graphic Design) Aug. 1996 - May 2002
A DDITION A L HIGHER EDUCATION (Institutions, dates attended, courses, etc.)
Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Award Sean Edgecomb with Early Tenure at the College of Staten Island with a Waiver of Bylaw 6.2.b
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, Dr. Sean Edgecomb is a distinguished scholar in the history, aesthetics, and social impact of queer theater and has established himself as one of the country’s foremost scholars of gender, sexuality, and theater history; and
WHEREAS, According to a major West Coast institution, Dr. Edgecomb’s scholarship “essentially establishes a new discipline within social and artistic history” and he is “the nation’s leading scholar in the study of American experimental theater since the 1960’s” and “a vital, sophisticated scholar whose work is ‘must-cites’ for those working in the fields of theater and queer studies”; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Edgecomb’s monograph “Charles Ludlam Lives!: the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theater Company” (University of Michigan Press) was well received and was recognized by all three external reviewers as a groundbreaking contribution that intersects the disciplines of queer studies, gender studies, and performance history; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Edgecomb has consistently taught a full load during his probationary period at the College of Staten Island and has been particularly active in courses that are consistently strongly enrolled and has received uniformly favorable student and peer evaluations; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Edgecomb’s service includes committee service to the college and department commensurate with the rank of Associate Professor and has been a reviewer at the University level for the Research Foundation Book Completion Awards, as well as a supervisor of student Master’s theses and Doctoral dissertations; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Edgecomb has directed three plays during his tenure at the University and founded and served as the chair of the Stonewall 50th Anniversary Committee while accomplishing all of the above-mentioned scholarship, teaching, and service
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that Sean Edgecomb be appointed as a Professor with tenure in the Department of Performing and Creative Arts at the College of Staten Island, effective February 4, 2020 with a waiver of Bylaw 6.2.b, subject to financial ability.
EXPLANATION: Dr. Sean Edgecomb is uniquely accomplished and venerated scholar whose artistic and teaching work have signifcantly enriched the University’s climate of scholarship and inclusivity and have established him as an indispensable and exceptional faculty member. The College of Staten Island/CUNY
CURRICULUMVITAE
Date preparation 05/06/2019
Signature
1. NAME Sean Fredric Edgecomb DEPARTMENT Performingand Creative Arts
CURRENTTITLE Assistant Professor CURRENTSALARY
2. RECOMMENDATION FOR (check one) EFFECTIVE DATE _____
__ Initial appointment __ Fourth Reappointment X Tenure
__ First Reappointment __ Fifth Reappointment CCE for Lecturer
__ Second Reappointment _X_ Sixth Reappointment XPromotion to Associate Professor
__ Third Reappointment __ Seventh Reappointment Promotion to Professor
Promotion to Senior CLT 3. HIGHEREDUCATION
DEGREES (Institutions, dates attended, degree and field, date conferred) • Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2004-2009, Ph.D. in Drama, 2009 • Emerson College, Boston, MA, 2002-2004, M.A. in Theatre Education, 2004 • University of Maine, Orono, ME, 1998-2001, B.A. in English, 2001 • Emerson College, Boston, MA, 1997-1998, Acting
ADDITIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION (Institutions, dates attended, courses, etc.) • National Theatre Institute, Training Certificatein Biomechanics Winter, 2010 • Jacques Lecoq International Training School, Neutral Mask Summer 2009 • Emerson College, Process Drama Workshop, Jonathan Neelands Summer 2004 • Emerson College, Kristen Linklater Vocal Seminar 2002-2003
4. EXPERIENCE
TEACHING (or counseling or library experience, as appropriate) Institution Dates Rank FT/PT DeQartrnent Tenure Status College of Staten Island 8/25/ 14-present Assistant Professor FT PCA Untenured TT Tufts University 1/1/14-5/30/15 Visiting Lecturer PT Drama NIA University of Queensland l/l/11-12/31/13 Assistant Professor FT Drama Untenured TT Tufts University 9/1/I0-12/20/10 Lecturer FT Drama NI
Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
RESOLUTION TO Award David Schwab with Early Tenure at The Graduate Center with a Waiver of Bylaw 6.2.b
January 13, 2020
WHEREAS, David Schwab is an assistant professor in the Ph.D. programs in Biology and Physics and is part of the Graduate Center’s Initiative for Theoretical Sciences, and has taught a range of courses including Applications and Chaos; and Introduction to Machine Learning; and
WHEREAS, Prof. Schwab has been the co-organizer of the Initiative for Theoretical Sciences symposia on Frontiers of Theoretical Physics, Physics of Bacterial Growth, Quantative Approaches to Behavior, and a workshop on Physics and Machine Learning; and
WHEREAS, Prof. Schwab has a record of publications, including 41 journal articles, that have brought him notice and acclaim from his peers in the field, such as that of one professor of Applied Physics at a renowned West Coast university, which stated, “The volume and breadth of his work is outstanding, but more critically, the depth and creativity of his work is exceptional”; and
WHEREAS, Prof. Schwab’s record of receiving grants is notable, and one researcher in theoretical neuroscience at an Ivy League university said of Prof. Schwab, “I would rank him as a real leader in bio-physics research within his generation”; and
WHEREAS, Prof. Schwab has designed and taught two highly regarded classes in Physics and Biology for doctoral students, and as the executive officer of one those programs states, “his faculty teaching observations have been strong and the lecture content and quality excellent”; and
WHEREAS, Prof. Schwab is highly regarded in his field on a national and international level and has given talks worldwide at over 40 conferences on quantum machine learning, and a chair of a Canadian research institute says of Prof. Schwab, “From what I’ve seen at conferences, he is, not only by myself, but widely, considered highly influential in his field”
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that David Schwab be appointed as a Professor with tenure in the Ph.D. Program in Biology at the Graduate Center, effective February 4, 2020 with a waiver of Bylaw 6.2.b, subject to financial ability.
EXPLANATION: David Schwab is a nationally and internationally celebrated scholar in his field and his service as an educator and researcher are an asset to the University and its mission. Candidate’s Curriculum Vitae The Graduate Center, CUNY
NAME: David Schwab PROGRAM: Biology (Throughout this document, headings are in Bold. Enter information in normal font.)
HIGHER EDUCATION A. Degrees (most recent first)
Institution Dates Attended Degree/Major Dates Conferred UCLA 09/2003-08/2009 PhD 08/21/2009 Cornell University 09/1999 - 05/2003 BA 05/20/2003
B. Additional Higher Education and/or Education in Progress: Institution Dates Attended Courses, Etc. Institution Dates Attended Courses, Etc.
EXPERIENCE (most recent first) A. Teaching (include part- and full-time experience at The Graduate Center)
Institution Dates Rank Department The Graduate Center 09/2017-present Asst. Prof. Biology Northwestern 09/2014-08/2017 Asst. Prof. Physics and Astronomy
B. Other Than Teaching (include experience at The Graduate Center)
Institution Dates Title Princeton University 09/01/09 - Postdoctoral research scholar 08/31/14 Candidate’s Name Page 2
RECORD OF APPOINTMENT IN EACH TITLE AT THE GRADUATE CENTER (in chronological order; most recent first; include date of tenure, if awarded)
Dates Rank 09/2017 – present Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS • Simons Investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems, 2017 - present • NIH K25 mentorship fellowship, 2012 - 2017
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (last five years only) • American Physical Society • q-bio Board member Candidate’s Name Page 3
WORKLOAD DATA List all course assignments at the Graduate Center for the last four semesters. Indicate all reassigned time and its source (contractual, grants, dissertation supervision, etc.). In addition, provide information on multiple positions, if any, held by the candidate.
Discipline & Institution Hrs./Cr. Course # Course Title
Spring 2019:
• Biol 79303 13 / Phys 85200: An Introduction to Machine Learning for Scientists
• Co-Organizer: ITS Symposia on Frontiers of Theoretical Physics
Fall 2018:
• Biol 79303 14: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
• Reading group on current theoretical problems in biophysics
• Co-Organizer: ITS Symposium on Quantitative approaches to behavior
• Co-Organizer: ITS Symposium on Physics of Bacterial Growth
• Organizer: ITS multi-day Workshop on Physics and Machine Learning
Summer 2018:
• Lectured on current topics in theoretical biophysics, SAIFR Sao Paulo, Brazil, School on theoretical physics
• Lectured on statistical physics, CPBF summer school for advanced undergraduates
• Lectured on the physics of deep learning, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Summer School on behavior
• Lectured on the physics of deep learning, Institut Scientifiques de Carge`se, School on machine learning Candidate’s Name Page 4
Doctoral Students: • Constantijn van der Poel, PhD program in Physics, Fall 2018-present • Shervin Parsi, Spring 2019 rotation PhD student in Physics
Additional students mentored: • Jimmy Kim (Northwestern Physics PhD student, since 9/2015) • Mingwei Wei (Northwestern Physics PhD student, since 9/2015) • Daniel Shams (Northwestern Biology PhD student, since 9/2015) • Jim Wu (Princeton Physics PhD student, since 9/2017)
Current Postdocs: • Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn
Former students: • DJ Strouse, Physics PhD, Princeton, 2018 (co-advisor: Bill Bialek), now at Google DeepMind
Former Postdocs: • Xingbo Yang, Northwestern, 2015-2017, now at Harvard • Eyal Nitzany, joint with MacLean and Palmer, UChicago, 2015-2017, now in industry Candidate’s Name Page 5
- SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE WORK List completed work using the following guidelines: (1) Works that are edited, co-authored, translated, compiled, etc. should be clearly indicated as such. In the case of co-authored works or projects, information should be provided as to the specific contributions of the candidate. (2) Categories should be further subdivided as necessary to present different types of publications and creative works clearly. (3) A reprinting or translation of a work should immediately follow that work's primary entry, and should be clearly indicated as such. (4) Works that are “in press” or “accepted for publication” should be included in Sections A-C as appropriate, but must be clearly indicated and verifications must be supplied. (5) Single-space entries; double-space between all entries. (6) Include complete (beginning and ending) page numbers for all publications. (7) Within each section, list latest works first. (8) Do not delete empty sections.
(A) BOOKS and other MONOGRAPHS 1. Published since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None.
2. Published prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None.
(B) JOURNAL ARTICLES Indicate nonrefereed journals with *.
All theory work was conceived and executed jointly with co-authors. All experimental collaborations were divided as follows: experiments were conducted by collaborators, data was analyzed and theory/modeling performed by myself and any other theorists as indicated in the published record.
1. Since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion.
Learning to share and hide intentions using information regularization DDJ Strouse, M Kleiman-Weiner, J Tenenbaum, M Botvinick, DJ Schwab Neural Information Processing Systems (2018) Contributions: Project conceived by all authors. Theoretical work was performed by DJS and DJS. Experiments were performed by doctoral student DJ Strouse. Paper was written by DJS, MKW, and DJS.
The information bottleneck and geometric clustering DDJ Strouse, David J. Schwab *http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09657 Neural Computation, in press (2019) Contributions: Project was conceived by both authors. Theory was performed by both authors. Experiments were performed by doctoral student DJ Strouse. Paper was written by both authors. Candidate’s Name Page 6
A high-bias, low-variance introduction to machine learning for physicists P Mehta, M Bukov, CH Wang, A Day, C Richardson, CK Fisher, DJ Schwab *http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08823 Physics Reports, in press (2019) Contributions: This large 120 page two-column review of machine learning for physics was conceived of and written by all authors.
Nonequilibrium cooperative sensing Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn, David J. Schwab&, Greg J. Stephens& & co-corresponding author *http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04095 Submitted to Physical Review X Contributions: Project was conceived by all authors. Theory was performed by all authors. Simulations were performed by VW. Paper was written by all authors.
Mean-field theory of batch normalization DMingwei Wei, James Stokes, David J. Schwab *https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02606 To be reviewed at Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Contributions: Project was conceived by all authors. Theory was performed by all authors. Simulations were performed by MW. Paper was written by all authors.
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of continuous attractors Weishun Zhong, Zhiyue Lu, David J Schwab&, Arvind Murugan& & co-corresponding author *https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11167 In review, PRX Contributions: Project was conceived by DJS and AM. Theory was performed by all authors. Simulations were performed by WZ. Paper was written by all authors.
2. Prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion.
• 35. Coordination of size-control, reproduction and memory in freshwater planarians Xingbo Yang, Kelson J. Kaj, David J. Schwab*, and Eva-Maria S. Collins* Physical Biology 14 (3), 036003 (2017) * co-corresponding author
• 34. Associative pattern recognition through macro-molecular self-assembly Weishun Zhong, David J. Schwab, Arvind Murugan Journal of Statistical Physics 167 (3-4), 806-826 (2017) Candidate’s Name Page 7
• 33. Supervised learning with quantum-inspired tensor networks Miles Stoudenmire, David J. Schwab NIPS (2016)
• 32. The deterministic information bottleneck DJ Strouse, David J. Schwab AISTATS (2016) Neural Computation (2017)
• 31. A central role for mixed ACh/GABA transmission in direction coding in the retina S Sethuramanujam, AJ McLaughlin, G deRosenroll, A Hoggarth, DJ Schwab, GB Awatramani Neuron 90 (6), 1243-1256 (2016)
• 30. Landauer in the age of synthetic biology: energy consumption and information processing in biochemical networks Pankaj Mehta, Alex Lang, David J. Schwab Journal of Statistical Physics, 1-14 (2016)
• 29. Presynaptic inhibition in the striatum of the basal ganglia improves pattern classi • 28. Multiscale modeling of oscillations and spiral waves in Dictyostelium populations Javad Noorbakhsh, David J. Schwab, Allyson Sgro, Thomas Gregor, Pankaj Mehta Phys. Rev. E 91, 062711 (2015) • 27. Speci • 26. From intracellular signaling to population oscillations: bridging size and time scales in collective behavior A Sgro, DJ Schwab, J Noorbakhsh, T Mestler, P Mehta, T Gregor Molecular Systems Biology 11: 799 (2015) Candidate’s Name Page 8 • 25. Constant growth rate can be supported by decreasing energy =ux and increasing aerobic glycolysis Nikolai Slavov, Bogdan Budnik, David Schwab, Edoardo Airoldi, Alexander van Oudenaarden Cell Reports, Volume 7, Issue 3, 705-714 (2014) Highlighted by: Cell Press. • 24. Quantifying the role of population subdivision in evolution on rugged • 23. Zipf’s law and criticality in multivariate data without • 22. Nonlinear dendritic integration of electrical and chemical synaptic inputs drives • 21. A binary Hop • 20. An exact mapping between the variational renormalization group and deep learning Pankaj Mehta, David J. Schwab *http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3831 (2014) Highlighted by: Quanta and Wired magazines • 19. Dynamic tuning of electrical and chemical synaptic transmission in a network of motion coding retinal neurons Stuart Trenholm, Amanda McLaughlin, David J. Schwab, and Gautam Awatramani The Journal of Neuroscience, 11, 33(37): 14927-14938 (2013) • 18. Spatial lag normalization in the retina Stuart Trenholm, David J. Schwab, Vijay Balasubramanian, Gautam Awatramani Nature Neuroscience 16, 154-156 (2013) Recommended by Faculty of 1000 Candidate’s Name Page 9 • 17. Kuramoto model with coupling through an external medium David J. Schwab, Gabriel Plunk, Pankaj Mehta Chaos 22, 043139 (2012) • 16. Energetic costs of cellular computation Pankaj Mehta, David J. Schwab Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 41 (2012) Highlighted by: MIT Technology Review and Genome Web. • 15. Dynamical quorum-sensing and synchronization of nonlinear oscillators coupled through an external medium David J. Schwab, Ania Baetica, Pankaj Mehta Physica D 241, (21) 1782-1788 (2012) • 14. Alpha-ketoglutarate coordinates carbon and nitrogen utilization via enzyme I inhibition Christopher D. Doucette, David J. Schwab, Ned S. Wingreen, Joshua D. Rabinowitz Nature Chemical Biology 7, 894-901 (2011) • 13. Stat. mech. of transcription-factor binding site discovery using hidden Markov models Pankaj Mehta, David Schwab, Anirvan M. Sengupta Journal of Statistical Physics 142, 1187-1205 (2011) • 12. Rhythmogenic neuronal networks, pacemakers, and k-cores David J .Schwab, Robijn F. Bruinsma, Alex J. Levine Physical Review E 82, 051911 (2010) • 11. A computational model for the robustness of transmembrane proteins Karim Wahba, David J. Schwab, Robijn Bruinsma Biophysical Journal 99, 2217-2224 (2010) • 10. Glassy states in fermioninc systems with strong disorder and interactions David J. Schwab, Sudip Chakravarty Physical Review B 79, 125102 (2009) • 9. Flory theory of the folding of designed RNA molecules David J. Schwab, Robijn Bruinsma J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 3880-3893 (2009) Candidate’s Name Page 10 • 8. How many species have mass M? Aaron Clauset, David J. Schwab, Sidney Redner American Naturalist 173, 256-263 (2009) • 7. Endogenous versus exogenous origins of diseases D. Sornette, V.I. Yukalov, E.P. Yukalova, J.Y. Henry, D.J. Schwab, J.P. Cobb Journal of Biological Systems 17, 225-267 (2009) • 6. Nucleosome switches David J. Schwab, Robijn Bruinsma, Joseph Rudnick, Jonathan Widom Physical Review Letters 100, 228105 (2008) • 5. Rounding by disorder of 1st-order quantum phase transitions: emergence of quantum critical points Pallab Goswami, David J. Schwab, Sudip Chakravarty Physical Review Letters 100, 015703 (2008) • 4. Local hidden variable theories for quantum states Barbara M. Terhal, Andrew C. Doherty, David Schwab Physical Review Letters 90, 157903 (2003) • 3. Photoionization of CO2 (ARPES) A.C. Parr, J.B. West, M.R.F. King, K. Ueda, P.M. Dehmer, J.L. Dehmer, D.J. Schwab, A.M. Sansonetti, K. Olsen, R.A. Dragoset *http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/co2/index.cfm • 2. X-ray transition energies R.D. Deslattes, E.G. Kessler Jr, P. Indelicato, L. de Billy, E. Lindroth, J. Anton, J.S. Coursey, D.J. Schwab, J. Chang, R. Sukumar, K. Olsen, and R.A. Dragoset *http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/xraytrans/index.cfm • 1. Atomic weights and isotopic compositions Jack Coursey, David J. Schwab, Robert A. Dragoset *http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/comp.cfm Candidate’s Name Page 11 (C) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS/ANTHOLOGIES Indicate nonrefereed chapters with * 1. Since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None. 2. Prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None. (D) ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (Full articles only) Indicate nonrefereed proceedings with *. In case of joint authorship, indicate the presenting author by # sign. 1. Since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. Learning to share and hide intentions using information regularization #DJ Strouse, M Kleiman-Weiner, J Tenenbaum, M Botvinick, D Schwab Neural Information Processing Systems (2018) 2. Prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. Supervised learning with quantum-inspired tensor networks Miles Stoudenmire, David J. Schwab Neural Information Processing Systems (2016) (E) REVIEWS (by the candidate, of others’ scholarly works) 1. Since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. A high-bias, low-variance introduction to machine learning for physicists P Mehta, M Bukov, CH Wang, A Day, C Richardson, CK Fisher, DJ Schwab *http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08823 Physics Reports, in press (2019) 2. Prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None. (F) REVIEWS (by others, of the candidate’s scholarly works) 1. Since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None. 2. Prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None. (H) ORAL PRESENTATIONS, Indicate whether these were refereed (R), or invited (I). In case of joint presentations, indicate presenting author by # sign. Do not list presentations included in (D). All listed talks are solo invited talks (I), not standard submissions to conferences or posters. Candidate’s Name Page 12 1. Since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. 2019: • National Taiwan University, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Annual Conference • Emory University, What is Theoretical Biophysics Conference 2018: • UC, Davis, Depts. of Computer Science, Physics, and Neurobiology • Institut Scientifiques de Cargese, School on machine learning • Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Quantum machine learning conference • Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Comp. neuro. conference • Columbia University, Theoretical neuroscience seminar • CUNY, Advanced Science Research Center • UCLA, Neurophysics conference • Princeton, Biophysics seminar • SAIFR Sao Paulo, Brazil, School on theoretical physics • Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, School on behavior • HKUST, Hong Kong, Conference on mathematics of deep learning 2. Prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. 2017: • ITS, CUNY, Symposium on recent developments in condensed matter • Doctoral Faculty Meeting, CUNY Graduate Center • U. Mass. Amherst, Workshop: Work from Noise • Wash. U., Department of Physics colloquium • Institut Scientifiques de Cargese, School on biophysics • Simons Flatiron Institute, CCB • APS March Meeting, Invited talk 2016: • University of California, Davis, Department of Physics colloquium • Perimeter Institute, Quantum Machine Learning Conference • IST, Austria, Info., Prob., and Inference in Systems Biology • Caltech, Phillips group, 4 lectures • University of Chicago, Department of Statistics • IUPUI, Department of Physics colloquium Candidate’s Name Page 13 • CUNY, Initiative in the Theoretical Sciences 2015: • ICAM Conference, University of Michigan • Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, ON • University of Texas, Austin, Center for Learning and Memory • University of Chicago, Departments of Neurobiology and Statistics • University of California, San Diego, Department of Physics • University of Rochester, Department of Physics • Northwestern University, Institute on Complex Systems • Northwestern University, CIERA Interdisciplinary Seminar • ICAM Annual Conference, Argonne National Lab 2014: • European Conference of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology • Infometrics Conference, American University • Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy • Emory University, Department of Physics • Purdue University, Department of Physics • University of Michigan, Department of Biophysics and CSCS (I) OTHER WORKS (Abstracts, Editorials, Extended Abstracts, Encyclopedia Entries, Posters, Etc.) 1. Since most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None. 2. Prior to most recent of: initial appointment or last promotion. None. (J) SUBMITTED WORKS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS. Specify stage of progress and magnitude of work. Include number of manuscript pages for each submitted work. Submitted: Minimal valley: connectedness of good and bad minima and the entropic force by SGD DMingwei Wei, David J. Schwab In review at International Conference on Machine Learning Draft available upon request Mean-field theory of batch normalization DMingwei Wei, James Stokes, David J. Schwab *https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02606 To be reviewed at Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Candidate’s Name Page 14 Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of continuous attractors Weishun Zhong, Zhiyue Lu, David J Schwab&, Arvind Murugan& & co-corresponding author *https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11167 In review, PRX Selected works in progress: • Extrinsic v. intrinsic criticality in high-dimensional data In this work, we demonstrate a surprising connection between disparate mechanisms of generating strong correlations in high-dimensional data using analytics and simulations. To be submitted to Physical Review E. • Learnability of critical distributions Here we study through simulations how the ability to learn about the interactions in a data distribution from a finite number of samples depends on the proximity of the generating distribution from a critical point. We find somewhat surprisingly that critical distributions are the easiest to learn. • Information theoretic coarse graining and the renormalization group This work is led by an undergraduate from a Summer 2018 research project and was presented by him at the 2019 APS March Meeting. We develop an information theoretic objective to infer useful coarse grainings of data and connect the objective to the renormalization group from physics. • Optimal sensing and memory in simple population codes This work, performed by a PhD student in Physics at Northwestern, studies the tuning curves of neural population codes that provide optimal representations. The analytic results are verified through numerical simulations. We also find a surprising connection to the connectivity structure of recurrent neural networks that maintain memory of a stored stimulus variable. To be submitted to Physical Review Letters. • Spatial gradient sensing through excitability in Dictyostelium, This work, which forms the foundation of a PhD thesis for a student in the IBiS program at Northwestern, develops a model of spatial gradient sensing in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoidium. The model builds upon work I did a a postdoc on the signal relay network and proposes a novel mechanism by which excitable dynamics can allow for the detection of spatial gradients while maintaining perfect adaptation. The analytic work is supplemented with extensive numerical simulations and comparison to existing experiments. To be submitted to Physical Review E. Candidate’s Name Page 15 GRANTS For each grant, include: title, author(s), granting agency, originating institution (the one submitting the proposal); grant period (start and end year and month); role of candidate in the grant (sole Principle Investigator; co-PI; sub- contractor, consultant, etc); total funding over the grant period and amount provided to candidate (which will differ if there are multiple PI’s, subcontracts, etc). List separately research grants, in support of the candidate’s scholarly research, and institutional grants, in support of the college’s infrastructure, shared-use equipment, instruction, student stipends and scholarships, and similar programs. (1) Grants Pending Research None Institutional None (2) Grants in Progress Research Source: NIH Brain Initiative R01 Title: Coarse graining approaches to networks, learning, and behavior Role: co-PI, with Palmer (UChicago) and Bialek (Princeton) Total Period: 09/01/18 - 08/31/21 Amount: $414,165 Source: NSF Title: Center for the Physics of Biological Function Role: co-PI, CUNY lead Total Period: 9/1/18 – 8/31/21 Major Goal: The goal of this research is to develop theories of biological function. Amount: ~$15 million total, $2.1 million to CUNY Source: Simons Foundation Title: Latent variable models of collective neural activity Role: PI Total Period: 8/1/17 – 7/31/22 Major Goal: The goal of this research is to disentangle correlated neural populations with hidden variables. Amount: $650,000 Candidate’s Name Page 16 Institutional Source: Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Title: Physics and Machine Learning Conference Role: co-organizer Total Period: 11/13-11/15, 2018 Major Goal: This grant partially funds a three day conference put on through the ITS. Amount: $20,000 (3) Grants Completed Research Source: CBC Title: Reading the cortical code for natural motion Role: co-PI, joint with MacLean and Palmer (UChicago) Total Period: 2/1/16 – 1/31/18 Major Goal: The goal of this research is to investigate how natural motion is represented in visual cortex. Amount: $200,000 Source: NIH ID: K25 GM098875-0 Title: Excitability in Dictyostelium Development Role: PI Total Period: 9/1/12-6/01/18 Major Goal: The goal of this research is to investigate how excitability of single cells controls the developmental progression of Dictyostleium discoideum populations. Amount: $630,000 Institutional None (4) Grants Submitted, but not Funded Research Source: NSF Title: CRCNS Research Proposal Collaborative Research: Decoding stimulus features from V1 population dynamics via variational predictive auto-encoders Role: co-PI Total Period: submitted Jan 2018 Amount: $731,004 (Schwab portion) Institutional None Candidate’s Name Page 17 SERVICE (A) COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY. Include dates of each service activity. • Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Review. February 2018 • Faculty Search Committee, ITS. 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 • Organizer for Symposia at ITS. • co-Organizer for ITS Physics and Machine Learning conference, Nov. 13-15, 2018. (Note: Together with other ITS members, I received $20,000 from the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter to partially fund this conference.) (B) PROFESSION. Include dates of each service activity. Ad hoc manuscript referee Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physical Review X, Physical Review B, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Science, Journal of Statistical Physics, PLoS Computational Biology, Evolution, eLife, Genetics, Journal of Theoretical Biology Ad hoc grant reviewer • Swiss National Science Foundation, 2019 • Israeli Science Foundation, 2019 • NSF/NIH Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Big Data, 2016 Academic Editor • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 • PLoS One, 2017-present Conference Organizing • SIAM Conference on Network Science, member of organizing committee 2018-present • q-bio conference, member of the organizing committee 2015-present Visiting Appointments • Long-term visitor at Simons Institute at Berkeley program on “The Brain and Computation”, January - March, 2018 • Visiting scientist at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics program on “Quantum Machine Learning”, January - March, 2019 Candidate’s Name Page 18 (C) COMMUNITY. Last five years only. Include dates for each service activity. Examples: unpaid member of board of trustees for school or library; activities in non-college or university settings; unpaid consultantships. • Organizer/chair for session on Inference in Biophysics for APS March Meeting 2019 • Organizer/chair for sessions on Inference in Biophysics for APS March Meeting, 2016 • q-bio Chair-line, 2015-2018 • External thesis committee member for Jan Humplik, IST Austria, 2015 - present • External thesis committee member for Max Gillett, UChicago, 2015-2017 • External thesis committee member for Christophe Gardella, ENS, 2017 • Lunch with the Experts, APS March Meeting, 2016 • Chicagoland Qbio biannual meeting, co-founder with Madhav Mani, 2015 Candidate’s Name Page 19 STATEMENT OF CANDIDATE (Maximum of two pages, single-spaced) Overview: I maintain diverse interests in theoretical neuroscience, biological physics, and machine learning that are unified by the study of collective behavior in information processing systems. In neuroscience, I am interested in how groups of neurons encode the information present in their inputs and what principles underlie the computations they perform on these signals. In cell biology, I am interested in how populations of cells communicate and make decisions in response to environmental cues. I believe that collective biological phenomena must be ultimately understandable in simple terms, because these processes have been sculpted by evolution and must therefore be controllable. This controllability implies an underlying simplicity for which a “physics-style” approach is ideally suited. In following the features and questions most relevant to each system, I am often led to use techniques outside the standard repertoire of theoretical physics. In the past few years, my group has increasingly focused on understanding modern machine learning methods using techniques from statistical physics. In what follows, I will first briefly summarize a selection of my past research and then briefly outline ongoing projects in my group. Machine Learning: Deep learning is a collection of techniques that uses multiple layers of representation to automatically learn relevant features directly from structured data. In the past seven years, such techniques have yielded record-breaking results on a diverse set of machine learning tasks. Despite its enormous success, relatively little is understood theoretically about why and when these techniques are so successful. With Pankaj Mehta at BU, I showed [1] that deep learning is intimately related to one of the most important and successful techniques in theoretical physics, the renormalization group (RG). RG is an iterative coarse-graining scheme that allows for the extraction of relevant features as a physical system is examined at different length scales. This paper constructed an exact mapping between Kadanoff’s variational RG and so-called deep belief networks. This connection may help explain how deep networks automatically learn relevant features from data as well as for what types of data deep networks work best. Tensor networks are efficient representations of high-dimensional tensors that have been very successful in modeling many-body physics systems. They also form the basis of modern forms of real-space RG. Miles Stoudenmire at Simons CCQ and I demonstrated [2] how algorithms for optimizing tensor networks can be adapted to supervised learning tasks by using matrix product states, and for the classic MNIST dataset, the method achieves good performance. This work showed that modern tensor network techniques for studying many-body physical systems can be fruitfully applied to machine learning problems and allows us to understand when such approaches can be expected to succeed. The information bottleneck method (IB) is a form of lossy compression that formalizes an information-theoretic optimization problem to determine the relevance/irrelevance of properties of data. In the IB, compression is measured by the mutual information between inputs and their compressed representation. In recent work [3], my former student DJ Strouse and I introduced an alternative formulation that replaces mutual information with entropy of the compression, termed the deterministic information bottleneck (DIB), which I argue better captures the notion of compression. As suggested by its name, the solution to the DIB problem is a deterministic encoder, or hard clustering, as opposed to the stochastic encoder optimal under the IB. IB and DIB were compared on synthetic data, showing that the IB and DIB perform similarly in terms of the IB cost function, but that the DIB significantly outperforms the IB in terms of the DIB cost function. In a follow-up work [4], we used DIB to perform geometric clustering, finding that kinks in the information curve allow for automatic model selection. Recently, we have used mutual information as a way to encourage cooperation/ competition in a multi-agent reinforcement learning setting [5]. Theoretical Neuroscience: In collaboration with the lab of Awatramani at U. Victoria, I have studied sophisticated computations performed by directionally-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs) in the mouse retina. In one project [6], we formulated and tested a novel mechanism by which a network of gap junction coupled DSGCs is able to compensate for upstream temporal processing lags and maintain a veridical representation of dynamic stimuli. Other work studied how chemical and electrical inputs combine to sculpt precise spiking correlations in electrically coupled DSGCs [7]. Computations performed by living systems are often enacted by large populations of cells, and it has recently become possible to jointly measure the states of many components of biological systems engaging in strongly correlated collective computations. An intriguing feature of these data has been the realization that these systems often reside close to a critical point. In an effort to understand how this arises, I discovered a novel mechanism employing latent variables by which such phenomena may arise robustly without fine-tuning [8]. The mechanism relies on the presence of unobserved, fluctuating degrees of freedom, often known as latent or hidden variables. The character of this ‘extrinsic’ criticality is fundamentally different from the more Candidate’s Name Page 20 conventional ‘intrinsic’ criticality that arises from direct interactions, and I am currently exploring these differences. In the retina, I suggest that the common input stimulus robustly produces these signatures nearly independent of the structure of the stimulus distribution. Biophysics of Cells: Cellular populations coordinate collective behaviors through biochemical signaling networks within individual cells. It is nontrivial to connect the dynamics of these intracellular networks to the population phenomena they control. In collaboration with Pankaj Mehta, I developed a model for the emergence of collective oscillations in cellular populations of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, and the model was tested and validated by the Gregor lab at Princeton [9]. The model predicts novel noise- driven single-cell and population-level signaling phenomena that were then experimentally observed. This work suggests that, as with physical systems, collective behavior in biology may be universal and can be described using simple mathematical models. In parallel, we published three theory papers, e.g. [10], describing novel phenomena that occur when classic models of coupled oscillators are modified to require that signals be sent through an external medium. Cells often perform computations in response to chemical signals in the environment. A classic problem, first considered by Berg and Purcell, is that of estimating the concentration of a chemical ligand in the surrounding media. To make successful estimates, cells must time average, and such computations require the consumption of energy. Pankaj Mehta and I explicitly calculated the energetic cost of steady-state computation of ligand concentration for a simple two-component cellular network that implements a noisy version of the Berg–Purcell strategy [11]. We showed that learning about external concentrations necessitates the breaking of detailed balance and concomitant consumption of energy, and that learning more requires expending more energy. This work contributed to establishing a research community that studies the energetic costs of cellular computation. Current Research: My group is currently working on a number of projects that continue and expand the research program I have established. In the theory of machine learning, we are using mean-field analysis of neural networks to study how aspects of their learning dynamics are affected by batch normalization and other architectural choices. We are also interrogating the structure of the loss landscape of neural networks on real-world datasets and have developed a novel perspective on how stochastic gradient descent navigates the landscape using an entropic force. Furthermore, we are studying the relationship between the so-called sloppiness of a network’s Fisher information spectrum and its generalization performance. Continuing our work on RG, we are developing an automated coarse-graining procedure using the information bottleneck. Finally, we are exploring the relationship between learnability and a so-called “area law” for mutual information. In neuroscience, we are studying models of continuous attractor networks with external drive, and have derived limits to how rapidly a network’s internal representation can be smoothly updated, as well as discovered novel capacity results. Next, we have been studying how non-linear gating, which has been incredibly useful in machine learning, modifies classic results in the theory of neural network dynamics. Separately, we have been collaborating with the MacLean and Palmer labs at U. Chicago to design stimuli that query how the representation of visual input in V1 is modified when aspects of natural input are removed. We find that, for example, a neuron’s preferred direction is nearly randomly remapped when motion is changed from natural to artificial textures. In biophysics, my group has recently become interested in problems in theoretical ecology. We are studying the effects of demographic noise on consumer-resource models using techniques from spin glass theory and are generalizing these models to an eco-evo setting. Finally, we are continuing to study the role of energy expenditure in cellular information processing, focusing on the role of asymmetric cooperative interactions among receptors. Teaching: Since joining the Graduate Center, I have designed and taught two special topics courses on interdisciplinary subjects. The first is a graduate course on applications of non-linear dynamics and chaos in biology and physics. The level of the course was designed so that PhD students in programs from Biology and Neuroscience to Physics and Mathematics would learn something new. I cover basic analytical approaches to studying complex non-linear systems and spend significant time discussing how these approaches can be fruitfully applied to modeling a variety of systems and phenomena in the biological and physical sciences. The second is a graduate course on machine learning for the physical and biological sciences. The emphasis in the course is distinct from that traditionally offered by a computer science program in that it focuses on models and techniques for which the goal is to develop an understanding of the data, rather than simply make black- box predictions. Candidate’s Name Page 21 References: 1. P. Mehta, D.J. Schwab. An exact mapping between the variational renormalization group and deep learning arXiv preprint 1410.3831 (2014) 2. E.M. Stoudenmire, D.J. Schwab. Supervised learning with tensor networks Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 4799-4807 (2016) 3. D.J. Strouse, D.J. Schwab. The deterministic information bottleneck Neural Computation 29 (6), 1611-1630 (2017) 4. D.J. Strouse, D.J. Schwab. The information bottleneck and geometric clustering Neural Computation, in press (2019) 5. D.J. Strouse, M. Kleiman-Weiner, J. Tenenbaum, M. Botvinick, D.J. Schwab. Learning to share and hide intentions using information regularization Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 10270-10281 (2018) 6. S. Trenholm, D.J. Schwab, V. Balasubramanian, G.B. Awatramani Lag normalization in an electrically coupled neural network Nature Neuroscience 16 (2), 154 (2013) 7. S. Trenholm et al. Nonlinear dendritic integration of electrical and chemical synaptic inputs drives fine- scale correlations Nature Neuroscience 17 (12), 1759 (2014) 8. D.J. Schwab, I. Nemenman, P. Mehta. Zipf’s law and criticality in multivariate data without fine-tuning Physical Review Letters 113 (6), 068102 (2014) 9. A.E. Sgro, D.J. Schwab, J. Noorbakhsh, T. Mestler, P. Mehta, T. Gregor. From intracellular signaling to population oscillations: bridging size-and time-scales in collective behavior Molecular Systems Biology 11 (1), 779 (2015) 10. D.J. Schwab, A. Baetica, P Mehta. Dynamical quorum-sensing in oscillators coupled through an external medium Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 241 (21), 1782-1788 (2012) 11. P. Mehta, D.J. Schwab. Energetic costs of cellular computation PNAS 109 (44), 17978-17982 (2012) Board of Trustees of The City University of New York RESOLUTION TO Appoint Tamera Schneider as Associate Vice Chancellor and University Vice Provost for Research at The City University of New York January 13, 2020 WHEREAS, Tamera Schneider has been serving as a Deputy Director for the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at National Science Foundation since 2017 and as a Professor of Psychology at Wright State University since 2011; and WHEREAS, Ms. Schneider has held multiple leadership positions and has published over fifty publications. Ms. Schneider played an instrumental role in developing an Equity Fellows Program at Wright University and led large teams of faculty and staff for the climate survey, teaching symposium, and university accreditation; and WHEREAS, Ms. Schneider has held positions as Assistant Vice President Multicultural Affairs and Community Engagement, Program Director and Deputy Director in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. She has worked closely with the executive teams to provide senior level support and leadership for high level projects; and WHEREAS, Ms. Schneider holds a Masters and PhD degree from SUNY Stony Brook and a Bachelors in Psychology from Wright State University, in addition to a second Master’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Wright State University; and WHEREAS, the appointment of Ms. Schneider as Associate Vice Chancellor will provide leadership, oversight, direction and accountability to the University’s research and innovation enterprise. Ms. Schneider will foster development of high impact, multi- disciplinary and multi-campus research proposals and projects including interdisciplinary, urban, and collaborative projects. Ms. Schneider will lead entrepreneurial efforts, overseeing the Technology and Commercialization Office, the CUNY HUB for innovation and entrepreneurship, and Start-Up NY program; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York approve the appointment of Tamera Schneider as Associate Vice Chancellor and University Vice Provost for Research effective February 4, 2020 at an annual salary of $265,000. EXPLANATION: Tamera Schneider will represent the University to local, state, national and international research agencies and industry. She will develop communication strategies to make CUNY research and scholarship visible and accessible to the press, the public and other scholars. She will cultivate partnerships and agreements with government, nonprofits, and industry that will lead to the expansion of faculty-led research and internship. This appointment is from a search. Ms. Schneider’s background, education and experience in research and extensive scholarly accomplishments make her particularly suited for this leadership role in the Office of Academic Affairs. The Chancellor strongly recommends this appointment. Schneider, Tamera R. 1 Tamera R. Schneider Deputy Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Professor of Psychology National Science Foundation Wright State University Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate College of Science and Mathematics Alexandria, VA Dayton, Ohio Email: [email protected] Mobile: (937) 776-5968 Education & Training Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 1997 Ph.D. Social/Health Psychology (Minor: Quant Methods, Psychophysiology) SUNY Stony Brook, 1997 M.A. Psychology, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1994 M.A. Applied Behavioral Science, Wright State University, 1992 B.S. Psychology, Wright State University, 1989 Executive Leadership Positions National Science Foundation – an independent federal agency that promotes the progress of all fields of basic science and engineering by funding innovative basic research and promising people in the U.S. (includes national, international, and industry partnerships). Deputy Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate, 8/2017 to present, Acting Deputy Division Director (ADDD) 5/2016 – 10/2016 BCS funds basic science focusing on understanding human processes and behavior, ranging from the origins of our evolution, to brain mechanisms and behavior implicated in development, language, perception, action, cognition, learning, social and cultural processes, to geographical and environmental issues that are affected by and impact human lives. Assess needs and trends for behavioral and cognitive sciences and scientists and represent these sciences across the agency. Implement strategic planning and policy setting, and provide leadership and guidance to ~30 scientific and administrative staff. Determine funding requirements for a within-division and cross-agency budget (~$90M budget), prepare and justify strategic budget estimates for SBE and OMB with an eye toward effective, cutting edge non-core (cross-directorate, interagency, partnerships) and core program commitments, develop evidence-based strategic planning for future investments. Oversee development of annual staffing plan considering strategic investments and staff workload and oversee search process to secure hires. Develop novel solutions to address personnel issues. Oversee evaluation of proposals and recommendations for awards and declines. Develop partnerships with other divisions, directorates, federal agencies, philanthropic foundations, scientific organizations, industry, and the academic community. Represent NSF to external stakeholders nationally and internationally. • Led the steering committee which included 3 division directors each from 3 directorates (EHR, CISE, ENG) for the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Big Idea. We developed and approved the FY18 solicitation, approved 12 awards for a total of $27M; developed ideas for FY2019. From developing solicitations, presenting to cross-directorate leadership, oversight of proposal processes and press releases across multiple years to providing responses to OMB for outyear strategic investments. • Obtained and curated SBE-funded projects related to opioid use, for SBE’s Director who represented NSF on the Federal Fast-Action Task Force on the Opioid epidemic. Presented summary of NSF-funded research to the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF). • Co-lead directorate efforts with EHR directorate to develop philanthropic partnerships for learning and enhancing our basic science impacts for practitioners and learners. Schneider, Tamera R. 2 • Co-chair Understanding the Brain working group (includes BIO, SBE, ENG, CISE), which includes a focus on the international BRAIN Initiative. • Chair SBE Science of Broadening Participation (SBP) working group. Develop Dear Colleague Letter, evaluate and recommend matching funds for SBP-related research; conduct outreach; develop bias training for program officers and proposal reviewers; created and engage with ongoing annotated bibliography for NSF/SBE-funded research related to SBP) • T2S (Transformations to Sustainability) SBE representative (international coordination of social- scientist lead sustainability research; coordinate with international funders for full proposal meeting, recommend awards; international award management). • Engage regularly with interagency activities (National Science Board, National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (SBE Consensus Study on Graduate Education; Neuroscience Forum member), develop division-level presentation for the SBE Advisory Committee bi-annual meetings. WSU - Research: Conduct independent research, mentor students (graduated 2 PhDs 2018, 1 MS student, advanced 1 student toward MS). Program Director, Social Psychology, SBE/BCS, 8/2015 – 8/2017, Managed bi-annual proposal review process, award recommendation process, program budget, outreach and liaison with scientific community (scientists, universities, professional societies) and other stakeholders (media, congress, public). Participated in interagency meetings (National Science Board, National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (SBE focus on graduate education), SBE Advisory Committee), working groups (SBP working group; Transformations to Sustainability – international scientists partnering on climate sustainability research), and strategic review committees (Science of Broadening Participation Review; Review of Strategic Review Process). The latter of which are 6-week intensives that serve to evaluate NSF’s strategic review objectives. • Strategic Review Committee: Science of Broadening Participation – cross-agency team developed analytical questions about the state of SBP at NSF, Gathered and interpreted data, made evidence-based recommendations to enhance NSF impact on SBP. Co-presenter to SMaRT (NSF Assistant Directors). Led subgroup to develop an annotated bibliography of SBP-funded research in SBE and EHR directorates. • Strategic Review Committee: Strategic review of strategic reviews (invited 2017) – team member. Goal was to understand the role of the strategic review process on enhancing the functioning of the NSF as aligned with the strategic goals (and plan) of the foundation. • T2S SBE representative (international coordination of social-scientist lead sustainability research; represent the US, develop call for proposals, assist with preproposal meeting (proposal eligibility, discussion agenda based on rankings), coordinate with international funders for pre- and full proposal meeting, outreach, secure reviews, recommend awards; award management). • Started writing group for scientific staff in SBE to facilitate their research productivity while at NSF. WSU - Research: Conduct independent research, mentor students (graduated 2 PhDs 2016, advanced 2 graduate students to candidacy). Wright State University Assistant Vice President Multicultural Affairs & Community Engagement, 5/2014 – 4/2015 • Conducted and expanded campus climate survey; chaired committee, oversaw development, implementation, analysis, and presentation; presented to President’s Cabinet 4/2015. Brand was “Your Voice Matters,” and yielded a 72% increase in student respondents from prior survey; included administration and community members. • Developed and chaired inaugural Teaching for Student Success Symposium held 8/2015 (over 40 proposals submitted). Focused on evidence-based best practices for student success including areas of assessment, active learning, use of scale-up classrooms, and diversity initiatives that enhance learning. Target population WSU faculty, instructors, and lecturers. Over 150 participants, with a keynote, poster Schneider, Tamera R. 3 session, round table discussions and networking sessions. Deans supported research prizes given from rubrics developed for rating. Held in conjunction with New Faculty Orientation. Ongoing symposium. • With VP, developed faculty equity fellows program, modeled after ADVANCE programs and tailored to WSU; obtained support/commitment across deans/colleges; goal was to provide guidance on policy and practice for leadership and all faculty within a college, particularly underrepresented faculty; included training to sustain best practices for equity fellows across the ADVANCE consortium. • Faculty and Staff Diversity and Development Report, MACE. (to Associate Provost, Deans, VPs 4/2015) A self study for the representation of faculty, staff, and students across campuses and colleges from 2007-2014. Provided information about WSU policies and resources for broadening participation. • Executive Steering Committee - Higher Learning Commission University-wide reaccreditation. Co- chaired Criterion 3: Teaching and Learning: Quality, Resources, and Support. Assembled team, organized evidence, writing of report, timely and successful completion; assigned to Criterion 1: Mission. Assisted in use of IT for cross-criteria coordination. • STEMMS (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine) Director-Elect, 2015. Member of Advisory Council, set goals, oversee networking, inform administration on issues for women STEMMS faculty. Faculty Full Professor (2011 - present), Assoc (2006), Asst (2000), Department of Psychology, College of Science and Mathematics. Secondary Appointments: Biomedical Sciences, Women’s Studies PI: Human-Centered Science Laboratory (partnership with Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB) • Research-related service: Investigation Committee (Research and Sponsored Programs: Confidential Issues); Research Challenge Proposal Review; CoSM Research Council, internal grant reviewer; CoSM Research Advisory Committee. • Faculty Senate: Nominated to Faculty Senate Executive Committee (declined due to AVP acceptance); Chaired University Student Success Committee; Faculty Senate ad hoc committees: Student Recruitment, Quadrennial Review, International Programs Oversight. • Broadening Participation: Executive Committee (Strategic Planning), Women in Science Giving Circle (WISG); WISGC Grant Proposal Review; WISGC Bylaws, Communication Committee. • NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Executive Committee: Regional summer writing group for pre-tenured women faculty, extended to all faculty subsequent years; Mentoring Committee; Coaching Committee; Chair Toolkit. • STEMMS (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Medicine) Women’s mentoring circle, Director- Elect. Yale University Associate Research Scientist, 1998 – 2000 With Peter Salovey, PI, oversaw NCI-funded research program on persuading health behaviors in low-income communities, and research focused on promoting health behaviors generally. Honors and Awards Fellow: Association for Psychological Science Fellow: Society for Experimental Psychology President’s Award for Faculty Excellence: Early Career Achievement Award 2004 Scholarship: Faculty Superior Scholarship Award, Wright State University, 2013, 2014, & 2015 (then at NSF) Human Factors Prize in Medicine, Paper Finalist, 2011 Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2009 Schneider, Tamera R. 4 Fellow, NSF Advanced Training Inst: Immersive Virtual Environment Technology, UC Santa Barbara, 2002 Sigma Xi, Award for Excellence in Research, 1997 Stony Brook Univ, Departmental Award for Student Research, 1993 Alpha Kappa Delta, Psi Chi Teaching: SOCHE Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching, 2005 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Science and Mathematics, 2002 Stony Brook Univ, Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996 Professional Development: Alan Alda Science Communication Intensive, Stony Brook, NY, 2017 Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) 2-wk program on higher ed administration, Denver, 2011 Research Interests 1) Biobehavioral assessment and psychophysiological mechanisms linking stress, emotions, and health 2) Influence of persuasion and other social-psychological phenomena on effecting positive health outcomes, trust (in humans and automation), and an enhanced STEM workplace 3) Facilitating stress resilience and an effective, inclusive, innovative workplace Research-related Professional Development: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (7-day immersive), Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, 2004 Facial Action Coding System (FACS) Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 2010 Publications (50 total) Basic Research Program (see higher education section below) Shepelak, N.J., Schneider, T.R., & Deffet, M. (1991). Maternal deviance and state power. In A.S. Trebach & K.B. Zeese (Eds.), New Frontiers in Drug Policy (pp. 222-229). Washington, DC: Drug Policy Fndtn. Schneider, T.R., Katkin, E.S., & Ring, C. (1998). A test of the validity of the method of constant stimuli as an index of heartbeat detection. Psychophysiology, 35, 86-89. Kelsey, R.M., Reiff, S., Wiens, S., Schneider, T.R., Mezzacappa, E.S., & Guethlein, W. (1998). The ensemble- averaged impedance cardiogram: An evaluation of scoring methods and interrater reliability. Psychophysiology, 35, 337-340. Kelsey, R.M., Blascovich, J., Tomaka, J., Leitten, C.L., Schneider, T.R., & Wiens, S. (1999). Cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to recurrent psychological stress: Effects of prior task exposure. Psychophysiology, 36, 818-831. Salovey, P., Schneider, T.R., & Apanovitch, A.M. (1999). Persuasion for the purpose of cancer risk reduction: A discussion. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs, 25, 119-122. Kelsey, R.M., Blascovich, J., Leitten, C.L., Schneider, T.R., Tomaka, J., & Wiens, S. (2000). Cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to recurrent psychological stress: Moderating effects of evaluative observation. Psychophysiology, 37, 748-756. Schneider, T.R., Salovey, P., Apanovitch, A.M., Pizarro, J., McCarthy, D., Zullo, J., & Rothman, A.J. (2001). The effects of message framing and ethnic targeting on mammography use among low-income women. Health Psychology, 20, 256-266. Schneider, T.R., Salovey, P., Pallonen, U., Mundorf, N., Smith, N., & Steward, W. (2001). Visual and auditory message framing effects on tobacco smoking. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 667-682. Pizarro, J., Schneider, T.R., & Salovey, P. (2002). A source of error in self-reports of pap test utilization. Journal of Community Health, 27, 351-356. Schneider, Tamera R. 5 Salovey, P., Schneider, T.R., & Apanovitch, A.M. (2002). Message framing in the prevention and early detection of illness. In J.P. Dillard & M. Pfau (Eds.) The persuasion handbook: Theory and practice (pp. 391-406). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Steward, W.T., Schneider, T.R., Pizarro, J., & Salovey, P (2003). Need for cognition moderates responses to framed smoking cessation messages. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 2439-2464. Williams-Piehota, P., Schneider, T.R., Pizarro, J., Mowad, L., & Salovey, P. (2003). Matching health messages to information-processing styles I: Need for cognition and mammography utilization. Health Communication, 15, 375-392. Schneider, T.R. (2004). The role of Neuroticism on psychological and physiological stress responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 795-804. Williams-Piehota, P., Schneider, T.R., Pizarro, J., Mowad, L., & Salovey, P. (2004). Matching health messages to Health Locus of Control beliefs for promoting mammography utilization. Psychology and Health, 19, 407-423. Rivers, S.E., Salovey, P., Pizarro, D.A., Pizarro, J., & Schneider, T.R. (2005). Message Framing and Pap Test Utilization Among Women Attending a Community Health Clinic. Psychology and Health, 10, 55-77. Williams-Piehota, P., Pizarro, J., Schneider, T.R., Mowad, L., & Salovey, P. (2005). Matching health messages to Monitor-Blunter coping styles to motivate screening mammography. Health Psychology, 24, 58-67. Lyons, J.B., & Schneider, T.R. (2005). The influence of emotional intelligence on performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 693-703. Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., & Williams, M. (2005). Emotional intelligence and autonomic self-perception: Emotional abilities are related to visceral acuity. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 853-861. Schneider, T.R. (2005). Methods for assessing companion animal quality of life. Iams Symposium Improving Our Listening Skills: What Dogs and Cats are Telling Us. Proceedings of the North American Veterinary Conference, Orlando, FL. The Iams Company. Schneider, T.R. (2006). Getting the biggest bang for your health education buck: Message framing and reducing health disparities. American Behavioral Scientist, 49, 812-822. Feufel, M., & Schneider, T.R. (2006). Facilitating the use of at-home colorectal screening tests: The effect of cognitive and motivational instruction manipulations. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1073-1077. Gildea, K.M., Schneider, T.R., & Shebilske, W.L. (2007). Stress appraisals and training performance on a complex laboratory task. Human Factors, 49, 745-758. Schneider, T.R. (2008). Evaluations of stressful transactions: What’s in an appraisal? Stress and Health, 24, 151-158. Stokes, C.K., Schneider, T.R., & Lyons, J.B. (2008). Predicting adaptive performance in multicultural teams: A causal model. Proceedings of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: Human Factors and Medicine Panel, 19.1-19.17. Schneider, T.R., Rivers, S.E., & Lyons, J.B. (2009). The biobehavioral model of persuasion: Generating challenge appraisals to promote health. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 1928-1952. Lyons, J.B., & Schneider, T.R., (2009) Leadership and stress: The effects of leadership style on stress outcomes. Leadership Quarterly, 20, 737-748. Stokes, C.K., Schneider, T.R., & Lyons, J.B. (2010) Adaptive performance: A criterion problem. Team Performance Management, 16, 212-230. Feufel, M.A., Schneider, T.R., & Berkel, H.J. (2010). A field test of the effects of instruction design on cancer self-screening accuracy. Health Education Research, 25, 709-723. Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., Tetrick, M.A., & Accortt, E.E. (2010) Multidimensional quality of life and human- animal bond measures for companion dogs. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 5, 287-301. Accortt, E.E., Bismark, A., Schneider, T.R., & Allen, J.J.B. (2011). Diagnosing Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: The reliability of a structured clinical interview. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 14, 265-267. Schneider, T.R., Rench, T.A., Lyons, J.B., & Riffle, R.R. (2011). The influence of neuroticism, extraversion, Schneider, Tamera R. 6 and openness on stress responses. Stress and Health, 28, 102-110. Schneider, T.R., Feufel, M.A., & Berkel, H.J. (2011). Promoting colorectal cancer screening in public health outreach campaigns. Human Factors Prize Finalist, 53, 637-646. Stokes, C.K., Lyons, J.B., & Schneider, T.R. (2011). The impact of mood on interpersonal trust: Implications for multicultural teams. In N.A. Stanton (Ed.) Trust in Military Teams (pp. 13-30). Lyons, J.B., Stokes, C.K., Schneider, T.R. (2011). Predictors and outcomes of trust in teams. Invited book chapter in N.A. Stanton (Ed.), Trust in Military Teams (pp. 31-47). Schneider, T.R., Stokes, C.K., & Lyons, J.B. (2011). Predicting resourcefulness in mixed-culture teams: A causal model. Invited and reviewed book chapter in M.J. Celinski & K.M. Gow (Eds.), Wayfinding through life's challenges: Coping and survival (pp. 315-330). New York: Nova Science Publishers. Eschleman, K., Alarcon, G., Stokes, C., Lyons, J. B., & Schneider, T. (2012). Change in appraisals and influence of affect. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 25, 309-327. Schneider, T.R., & Riffle, R.R. (2012). Stress and Illness. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2nd ed.) (pp. 536-539). Kidlington, Oxford: Elsevier. Griffin, K.W., Espada, J.P., & Schneider, T.R. (2013). Driving after consuming alcohol or illicit drugs among students at commuter colleges in the U.S. and Spain. Journal of Drug & Alcohol Research, 2, 1-6. Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., & Khazon, S. (2013). Stress Resilience: The Benefits of Emotional Intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 909-914. Jackson, S., & Schneider, T.R. (2014). Extraversion and Stress. In A. D. Haddock & A.P. Rutkowski (Eds.) The Psychology of Extraversion (pp. 121-131). New York: Nova Publishers. Miller, A., Flinn, J.T., Pyatka, N., Brewer, J., Schneider, T., & Cao, C. (2015). The effects of stress on learning surgical skill acquisition. Medical Teacher, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2015.1114597. Schneider, T.R., & Forgas, J. (2015). The social context of diagnosis. In M. Wiggins & T. Loveday (Eds.), Diagnostic Expertise in Organizational Environments. Power, N.U., Schneider, T.R., Skipper, J.A., Petkie, D.T., Asari, V.K., Riffle, R.R., Sherwood, M.S., & Cross, C.B. (2017). Thermal facial signatures for state assessment during deception. Proceedings of the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Baumgartner, J.N., Schneider, T.R., & Capiola, A. (2018). The Effects of Optimism on Stressor Appraisals, Affect, and Cardiovascular Reactivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 129, 114-118. Baumgartner, J.N., & Schneider, T.R. (2018). Personality and Stress. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T.K. Shackelford (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer. Manuscripts under review – basic research Schneider, T.R., Capiola, A., Fox, B., Houpt, J., & Simmons, M. (revise and resubmit). Persuading the Public to Prepare for and Adapt to Climate Change. BASP Baumgartner, J.N., & Schneider, T.R. (under review). The Role of Flow and Positive Affect on Performance and Adaptation. International J Applied Positive Psychology Alarcon, G. M., Ryan, T. J., Capiola, A., Jessup, S. A., Wood, D. W., Schneider, T. (under review 4/2018). The Dynamic Interplay of Trustworthiness and State Suspicion in Teams over Time: A Panel Analysis. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Capiola, A., Alarcon, G.M., Lyons, J.B., Ryan, T.J., & Schneider, T.R. (revision submitted 4/2018). Collective Efficacy as a Mediator of Trustworthiness and Performance in Computer-mediated Teams, Small Groups Research Manuscripts in preparation – basic research Jessup, S., Borders, M., Schneider, T.R., Stokes, C., Lohani, M., McCoy, M. (in prep). The role of trust propensity and stress on automation reliance. Technical reports – basic research Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., & April, T.L. (September, 2003). Enhancing the quality of guardian’s pet health evaluations: The development of reliable and valid quality of life and human-animal bond Schneider, Tamera R. 7 surveys (The Iams Company Tech. Rep. No. 1). Schneider, T.R., April, T.L., & Lyons, J.B. (October, 2003). The influence of the human-animal bond on dog quality of life assessments (The Iams Company Tech. Rep. No. 2). Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., & April, T.L. (July, 2004). The validity of quality of life and human-animal bond assessments: Comparing reports of well and ill pet dogs (The Iams Company Tech. Rep. No. 3). Schneider, T.R., Posey, S., & Lyons, J.B. (July, 2006). The validation of a QOL and H-A bond survey: Owner and veterinary technician convergence.(The Iams Company Tech. Rep. No. 4). Schneider, T.R., Stokes, C.K., Dowling, P., & Payton, G.M. (March, 2009). Final Report: Experimental Evaluation of Collaborating Teams (EECT.) (AFRL HPW Tech. Rep. No 1). Schneider, T.R., & Jackson, S. (October, 2012). Trust Comprehensive: Criteria for Evaluating Research. (SRA Tech. Rep. No 1). Schneider, T.R., & Jackson, S. (June, 2014). Climate Change in the Dayton, Ohioan Mind. (GLAAC Final Report). Publications Higher Education Research Program Ducheny, K., Alletzhauser, H.L., Crandell, D., & Schneider, T.R. (1997). Graduate student professional development. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 28, 87-91. Riffle, R., Schneider, T.R., Hillard, A., Polander, E., Jackson, S., DesAutels, P., & Wheatly, M. (2013). A mixed methods study of gender, STEM department climate, and workplace outcomes. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 19, 227-243. Jackson, S.M., Hillard, A., & Schneider, T.R. (2014). Assessment of implicit and explicit attitudes of women faculty in STEM, Social Psychology of Education. DOI 10.1007/s11218-014-9259-5. Hillard, A., Schneider, T.R., Jackson, S.M., & LaHuis, D. (2014). Critical mass or incremental change? The effects of faculty gender composition in STEM. Advances in Gender Research, 19, 355-374. Schneider, T.R., Griffin, K.W., & Borders, M.R. (2018). The influence of social and emotional skills for innovative teams, pp 87-103. In M.C. Perez-Fuentes, M.M.M. Jurado, & J.J.G. Linares (Eds). Emotional Intelligence: Perceptions, Interpretations and Attitudes. Nova. Manuscripts under review – higher education Hillard, A. & Schneider, T. R. (under review). Do persuasive campaigns cause reactance or reduce stereotyping of women in STEM? JASP Manuscripts in preparation – higher education Capiola, A.C., Schneider, T.R., & Hillard, A. (in prep). Persuading a warmer climate for women in STEM. Baumgartner, J. N., & Schneider, T.R. (in preparation). The role of mindfulness and mindset on student success. Technical reports – higher education Schneider, T.R., & Riffle, R.R. (August, 2010). LEADER consortium STEM faculty work climate: Baseline. (NSF ADVANCE LEADER Tech. Rep. No 1). Schneider, T.R., & Jackson, S. (December, 2010). LEADER consortium STEM vs. SBS faculty work climate: Baseline. (NSF ADVANCE LEADER Tech. Rep. No 2). Schneider, T.R., & Capiola, A. (April, 2015). LEADER Writing Groups: Final Report. Submitted to LEADER Co-PIs and Institutional Representatives across the LEADER Consortium (AFIT, CSU, UD, WSU). Schneider, T.R. (April, 2015). Faculty and Staff Diversity and Development 2014-2015. Division of Multicultural Affairs and Community Engagement Schneider, T.R. (August, 2015). Teaching for Student Success Symposium (TSSS): Follow-up and evaluation. Presented to VP for Curriculum and Instruction and TSSS Steering Committee. Presentations (139 total) Schneider, Tamera R. 8 Schneider, T.R., Sheplak, N.J., & Deffet, M. (November, 1991). Maternal drug use and power. Paper presented at the International Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, DC. Lobel, M., Schneider, T.R. (March, 1992). Affiliation and evaluation in social comparison. Paper presented at the Nags Head meeting of Social Comparison Researchers, Nags Head, FL. Griffin, K., Schneider, T.R., Eitel, P., Weidner, G., & Connors, S. (August, 1992). Type A, locus of control, and improvement in plasma lipid profile. Poster presented at the American Psych Assoc, Washington, DC. Alletzhauser, H., Ducheny, K., Schneider, T.R. (August, 1993). APAGS: We can't always get what we want…do we get what we need? Poster presented at the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario. Schneider, T.R. (April, 1994). Cardiovascular reactivity and predispositions. Symposium, Stony Brook U, NY. Schneider, T.R., Katkin, E.S., Copeland, C., Ring, C., & Reiff, S. (October, 1994). Reliability and validity of the Method of Constant Stimuli for assessing cardiac detection. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, GA. Schneider, T.R., & Katkin, E.S. (June, 1995). Methodological issues concerning the assessment of cardiac self- perception. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. Schneider, T.R., & Katkin, E.S. (October, 1995). Methodological issues in the assessment of cardiac self- perception. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Toronto, Canada. Soderlund, K., Colaluca, B., Wiens, S., Reiff, S., Schneider, T., & Kelsey, R.M. (October, 1996). Lateralized control of inotropic and chronotropic cardiac reactivity to stress. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, Canada. Reiff, S., Wiens, S., Schneider, T., Mezzacappa, E.S., & Kelsey, R.M. (October, 1996). The ensemble averaged impedance cardiogram: A comparison of scoring methods. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, Canada. Pilato, J., Schneider, T.R., Platholi, J., Kelsey, R.M., & Katkin, E.S. (May, 1997). Post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. Platholi, J., Schneider, T.R., Pilato, J., Kelsey, R.M., & Katkin, E.S. (May, 1997). Race differences in health behaviors and psychological and physical symptoms. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. Kelsey, R.M., Schneider, T.R., & Wiens, S. (October, 1997). Effects of prior exposure and evaluative observation on cardiovascular adaptation to stress. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Cape Cod, MA. Schneider, T.R., Apanovitch, A.M., Zullo, J., McCarthy, D., & Gardner, N., Salovey, P., Rothman, A.J. (May, 1998). Maximizing low-income women's intentions to obtain a mammogram. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. Schneider, T.R., & Katkin, E.S. (September, 1998). Psychological and physiological correlates of cognitive appraisals of stress. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver, CO. Schneider, T.R. (October, 1998). Promoting women's decisions to obtain a mammogram. Invited address at the meeting of the Suffolk County Women's Bar Association, Hauppauge, Long Island, NY. Schneider, T.R. (April, 1999). Promoting healthy cancer-relevant behaviors: It's not what you say, but how you say it. Invited address at the Cancer Prevention and Control Division of the Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT. Pizarro, J., & Schneider, T.R. (June, 1999). Making strides breast cancer survivor survey. Invited address to the Board of Directors, Connecticut's Region 1 Chapter, American Cancer Society, Wallingford, CT. Schneider, T.R. (August, 1999). Effects of message framing and ethnic matching on mammography use. Poster selected for the Presidential Mini-Convention at the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA. Schneider, T.R. (October, 2000). Antecedents of stress and their physiological consequences. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, CA. Schneider, T.R. (February, 2001). Psychological and psychophysiological correlates of cognitive appraisals of stress. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX. Schneider, T.R. (June, 2001). Adopting healthy behaviors. Invited address at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Dayton, OH. Schneider, Tamera R. 9 Schneider, T.R. (November, 2001). The effectiveness of health appeals: A look at mechanisms. Invited address at the Group on Attitudes and Persuasion meeting, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Lyons, J., & Schneider, T.R. (March, 2002). Emotional intelligence and its effects on stress. Paper presented at the annual IO/OB Graduate Student Conference, Tampa, FL. Pizarro, J., Schneider, T.R., & Salovey, P. (April, 2002). Inaccurate reports of Pap test utilization: One source of error. Paper presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC. Williams, P., Pizarro, J., Schneider, T., Mowad, L., & Salovey, P. (April, 2002). Matching health messages to information-processing styles: Health locus of control and mammography utilization. Poster presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC. Rivers, S., Pizarro, D., Schneider, T.R., Pizarro, J., & Salovey, P. (April, 2002). Message framing and Pap test utilization among women attending a community health clinic. Poster presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC. Katulak, N.A., & Schneider, T.R. (May, 2002). Effective health communications: Prolonging worry about a health threat. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Schneider, T.R. (June, 2002). Mechanisms underlying effective health communications. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, New Orleans, LA. Schneider, T.R. (June, 2002). Persuading health behaviors: It's not what you say, but how you say it. Invited address at the Good Samaritan North Smoking Cessation Group, Dayton, OH. Schneider, T.R. (August, 2002). Persuasion and health: What works and why. Paper presented at NSF Advanced Training Institute in Social Psychology: Immersive Virtual Environment Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Schneider, T.R. (September, 2002). Altering perceptions to change health behaviors. Invited address to the Social Psychology Area, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. April, T., & Schneider, T.R. (February, 2003). The effects of forced coping on promoting health behaviors in pessimists. Poster presented at the IO/OB Graduate Student Conference, Tampa, FL. Schneider, T.R., (February, 2003). The influence of evaluations of health appeals on behavior. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA. Williams-Piehota, P., Salovey, P., Pizarro, J., Schneider, T.R., & Mowad, L. (March, 2003). Matching health messages to information-processing styles for promoting mammography utilization. Poster presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah. Williams-Piehota, P., Salovey, P., Pizarro, J., Schneider, T.R., & Mowad, L. (March, 2003). Tailoring health communications to informational-processing styles for promoting mammography utilization. Poster presented at the American Society of Preventative Oncology, Philadelphia, PA. Schneider, T.R. (April, 2003). Researching emotional intelligence in a personnel psychology context. Discussant in a symposium at the Society for I/O Psychology, Orlando, FL. Stevens, L., & Schneider, T.R. (May, 2003). The effects of worry on message processing. Psi Chi poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Schneider, T.R. (October, 2003). Mechanisms of effective persuasion: Cancer prevention and detection. Invited address at the Hipple Cancer Research Center executive committee meeting. Dayton, OH. Schneider, T.R. (October, 2003). Persuading health behaviors: The implications of challenge and threat. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Boston, MA. Schneider, T.R. (November, 2003). Change your smile and change your life. Invited address at the Women’s Health Conference, Dayton, Ohio. Schneider, T.R. (December, 2003). Health promotion: Persuading the adoption of healthier behaviors. Invited address, Rehabilitation Sciences Lecture Series, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. Lyons, J.B., Schneider, T.R., April, T.L., Stevens, E. (April, 2004). The influence of emotional intelligence on performance during stress. Poster presented at the Society for I/O Psychology, Chicago, IL. Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., & Williams, M. (October, 2004). Emotional intelligence and autonomic self- perception: Emotional abilities are related to visceral acuity. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Santa Fe, NM. Schneider, Tamera R. 10 Schneider, T.R. (January, 2005). Methods for assessing companion animal quality of life. Symposium paper presented at the North American Veterinary Conference, Orlando, FL. Lyons, J.B., & Schneider, T.R. (January, 2005). Stress resilience: Exploring the benefits of emotional intelligence. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. Lyons, J.B., Schneider, T.R., April, T.L., & Rench, T.A. (April, 2005). Personality, emotion, and stress: Testing an emotion-based model. Poster presented at the Society for I/O Psychology, Los Angeles, CA. Schneider, T.R. (November, 2005). Persuading the adoption of healthier behaviors in youth. Invited address at the meeting of the Oakwood High School Parent Pact, Dayton, OH. Schneider, T.R., Rivers, S.E., Lyons, J.B., & Katulak, N. (January, 2006). Multi-level model of persuasion: The implications of challenge and threat. Poster presented at the emotions preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA. Feufel, M.A. & Schneider, T.R. (July, 2006). Increasing adherence to FOBT taking: The effect of instruction design on test result return. Invited address to the Cancer Prevention Institute, Dayton, OH. Feufel, M., & Schneider, T.R. (October, 2006). Facilitating the use of at-home colorectal screening tests: The effect of cognitive and motivational instruction manipulations. Paper presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Francisco, CA. Schneider, T.R. (December, 2006). Quality of life and human animal bond assessments: Comparing pet owner and veterinary technician reports, The Iams Technical Center, Lewisburg, OH. Schneider, T.R. (February, 2007). Colorectal cancer screening: Making instructions a help, not a hindrance. Invited address for the Colorectal Cancer Screening, served as CLE for Kroger pharmacists at Premier Community Health, Dayton, OH. Schneider, T.R., & Feufel, M. (March, 2007) Facilitating colorectal cancer screening in a community-wide outreach campaign, Paper presented at the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hungary. Lyons, J.B., & Schneider, T.R. (April, 2007). An exploration of leadership style and perceived stress. Top poster award, poster presented at the Society for I/O Psychology, New York, NY. Klein, H. A. & Schneider, T.R. (June 2007). Affect in macrocognitive processes. Poster presented at the International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, Pacific Grove, CA. Stokes, C.K., Schneider, T.R., & Lyons, J.B. (April, 2008). Predicting adaptive performance in multicultural teams: A causal model. Paper presented at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: Human Factors and Medicine Panel, Copenhagen, Denmark. Schneider, T.R., & Feufel, M.A. (May, 2008). Health appeal delivery: Virtual physicians may promote health behaviors better than pamphlets. Symposium presentation at the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. Stokes, C.K., Schneider, T.R., & Lyons, J.B. (August, 2008). Comparing subjective and objective measures of adaptive performance: Examining the nomological network of adaptive performance. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA. Accortt, E.E., Schneider, T.R., & Payton, G. (October, 2008). Autonomic balance, stress responses and premenstrual dysphoric symptomatology. Poster presented at the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Austin, TX. Schneider, T.R. (October, 2008). In the footsteps of Katharine Wright: Promoting STEM women through LEADER (Launching Equity in the Academy across the Dayton Entrepreneurial Region): A three- pronged social science approach. Presentation to the College of Science and Mathematics Advisory Board, Wright State University, Dayton, OH. Schneider, T.R. (December, 2008). Social science research for LEADER: A regional NSF-ADVANCE initiative. Presentation to the LEADER Steering Committee, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH. Schneider, T.R. (February, 2009). Experimental Evaluation for Collaborating Teams (EECT): Final review, Presentation to AFRL, AIB Div., Sensemaking and Organizational Effectiveness Branch, Dayton, OH. Polander, E., & Schneider, T.R. (March, 2009). The influence of personality on stress responses. Poster presented at IO/OB, Chicago, IL. Schneider, T.R. (March, 2009). The influence of affect on naturalistic decision making. Brown bag presented at Klein Associates, Fairborn, Ohio. Schneider, Tamera R. 11 Schneider, T.R. (April, 2009). Team trust, communication, and performance. Symposium presented at the Society for I/O Psychology, New Orleans, LA. Schneider, T.R. (April, 2009). Promoting health behaviors: What’s stress got to do with it? Invited colloqium to the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Rogers, C.L., Schneider, T.R., Feufel, M., & Goodin, M. (May, 2009). Persuading public engagement in colorectal cancer screening. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Awarded the Regional Research Award from Psi Chi. Schneider, T.R. (May, 2009). The effects of mood on naturalistic decision making: A venture into the laboratory. Invited talk to the Cognition and Decision-Making Group Meeting, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Schneider, T.R., Payton, G., Dowling, P., Stokes, C.K., & Lyons, J.B. (January, 2010). The influence of team stress appraisals and coordination on performance. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. Skipper, J., Petkie, D., & Schneider, T.R. (April, 2010). Multimodal image-based emotional state assessment. Paper presented at the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Orlando, FL. Alarcon, G., Stokes, C., Lyons, J. B., & Schneider, T. (April, 2010). Predictors of collective efficacy in virtual teams. Poster presented at the Society for I/O Psychology, Atlanta, GA. Schneider, T.R., April/May/June, 2010. LEADER climate survey findings. Individual presentations to the Air Force Institute of Technology, Central State University, University of Dayton, and Wright State University, and at Consortium meetings to upper administrators and other LEADER team members. Alarcon, G., Stokes, C., Lyons, J. B., & Schneider, T. (May, 2010). Individual and team differences as predictors of change in state affect. Poster presented at APS, Boston, MA. Eschleman, K.J., Alarcon, G.M., Stokes, C.K., Lyons, J.B., & Schneider, T.R. (May, 2010). An examination of the stress appraisal process using latent growth modeling. Poster presented at APS, Boston, MA. Auld, S., Woodyard, R., Kidambi, P., Grover, A., Adkins, A., Breidenbach, A., Petkie, D., Schneider, T., & Skipper, J. (May, 2010). Thermal imaging signatures for human state assessment. Poster presented at the NSF IUCRC Center for Surveillance Research Kickoff. OSU, Columbus, Ohio. Student Award. Petkie, D., Skipper, J., & Schneider, T. (June, 2010). Multimodal human signatures for state assessment and threat evaluation. Presentation at the Computational Neuroscience, Vision, and Acoustic Systems PI meeting of the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA. Schneider, T.R., July 2010, 2011, 2012. Expert tips to keep writing and enjoy a satisfying academic career AND personal life. Talk and summer writing group for regional tenure-track women in STEM, expanded to men in 2012. Sponsored by LEADER. Schneider, T.R., & Forgas, J. (October, 2010). Emotion and naturalistic decision making. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Minneapolis, MN. Polander, E., & Schneider, T.R. (August, 2010). The importance of perceived similarity within faculty- faculty mentoring dyads. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA. Schneider, T.R., Polander, E., Riffle, R., Jackson, S., DesAutels, P., & Goldstein, D. (November, 2010). Findings from LEADER Consortium (AFIT, CSU, UD, WSU) Research. Poster presented at the NSF ADVANCE meeting. Arlington, VA. Schneider, T.R., Polander, E., Jarosz, A., & Goldstein, D. (January, 2011). Using persuasion to promote a more hospitable STEM workplace climate. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX. Stokes, C., Lyons, J.B., & Schneider, T.R. (April, 2011). Team affect as a predictor of interpersonal trust. Paper presented at the Society for I/O Psychology, Chicago, IL. Griffin, K.W., Espada, J.P., Schneider, T.R., Araiza, A., & Polander, E. (May, 2011). Drunk Driving Expectancies and Behavior among Students at Commuter Colleges in the U.S. and Spain. Poster presented at the Society of Prevention Research, Washington, DC. Bonifas, B., Schneider, T.R., & Riffle, R.R. (May, 2011). The influence of instructions on stress responses. Psi Chi poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Psi Chi research award. Schneider, Tamera R. 12 Schneider, T.R., & Riffle, R.R. (May, 2011). Warming the STEM department climate: Lessons from the academy. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Petkie, D., Skipper, J., & Schneider, T. (June, 2011). Multimodal human signatures for state assessment and threat evaluation. Presentation at the Computational Neuroscience, Vision, and Acoustic Systems PI meeting of the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA. Schneider, T.R. (August, 2011). The benefits of mentoring. Invited talk at the 2011 Faculty Orientation, WSU. Hillard, A. L., Jackson, S., Riffle, R., & Schneider, T. R. (November, 2011). Remedies for implicit bias against women in the academy. Poster presented at the NSF ADVANCE meeting. Arlington, VA. Riffle, R., Schneider, T., Hillard, A. L., Jackson, S. M., & Polander, E. (January, 2012). Attitudes and behaviors toward women scientists and engineers: The predictive utility of implicit attitude measures. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. Schneider, T.R. (March, 2012). Expert tips to keep writing and enjoy a satisfying career AND personal life. Invited talk to the Postdoctoral Association of Wright State University. Schneider, T.R. (April, 2012). Working with high risk populations. Webinar for the Social Personality and Health Network. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4NySmLzGE Jackson, S., Riffle, R., & Schneider, T.R. (April, 2012). Assessing implicit attitudes toward women in STEM to effect change in the academy. Invited talk to the Group for Attitudes and Persuasion (Petty & Fazio), OSU, Columbus, OH. Schneider, T.R. (May, 2012). Effectively Persuade Health Behaviors: Engage the Mind and Body. Invited talk at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Hillard, A., Jackson, S., & Schneider, T.R. (May, 2012). Best Practices for Discussing Diversity and Implicit Bias in the Classroom. Poster presented at APS, Chicago, IL. Petkie, D., Skipper, J., & Schneider, T. (June, 2012). Multimodal human signatures for state assessment and threat evaluation. Presentation at the Computational Neuroscience, Vision, and Acoustic Systems PI meeting of the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA. Jackson, S.M., Schneider, T.R., & Hillard, A. (August, 2012). Assessment of Implicit Attitudes toward Women in STEM. Poster presented at the American Psychological Assoc, Orlando, FL. Schneider, T.R. (February, 2013). Lessons learned from exemplars – how to keep writing and enjoy a satisfying and productive academic career AND a satisfying personal life. Learning Circle for tenure-track faculty and regional STEM academics. Hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning, WSU, Dayton, OH. Jackson, S.M., Schneider, T.R., Hillard, A.L. (March, 2013). Diversity training that works: Improving attitudes toward women in STEM. Poster accepted for presentation at NSF ADVANCE meeting, Arlington, VA. Guerrant, T., Riffle, R., Schneider, T.R., Petkie, D., & Skipper, J. (May, 2013). Deception and Opinions. Psi Chi poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Stewart, A., Riffle, R., Schneider, T.R., Petkie, D., & Skipper, J. (May, 2013). Stress Responses and Deception. Psi Chi Poster accepted for presentation at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Page, E., Schneider, T.R., & Polander, E. (May, 2013). Changing attitudes concerning gender equality in STEM fields. Psi Chi poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Hillard, A.L., Schneider, T.R., Polander, E., & Robinson, J.D. (May, 2013). Persuading more positive attitudes toward women in STEM. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Arnett, A., Fowler, A., Hillard, A., & Schneider, T.R. (May, 2013). Comparing student and faculty attitudes toward women in STEM. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Jackson, S.M., & Schneider, T.R. (October, 2013). Understanding and enhancing the STEM workplace climate: LEADER social science research. Presented at the Diversity in the Multicultural Millennium Conference, Wright State University. Simmons, M. & Schneider, T.R. (Nov, 2013). City of Dayton and WSU partnership: Education and awareness campaign about global climate change. Presentation at the GLAA-C Urban Council on Sustainability and Adaptation Meeting, Graham Sustainability Institution, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Schneider, T.R. (November, 2013). Productive writing without stress. Invited workshop for the Center for Global Health, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University. Schneider, T.R. (January, 2014). Understanding and Enhancing the STEM Workplace Climate: LEADER Social Schneider, Tamera R. 13 Research. Presentation to LEADER Council, Wright State University. Hillard, A., Schneider, T.R., & Jackson, S. (February, 2014). Does a “Critical Mass” of women increase gender equity in STEM? Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Schneider, T.R., Hillard, A., & Jackson, S. (March, 2014). Social-science informed recommendations for Institutional Transformation. Poster presentation at NSF ADVANCE PI Meeting, Arlington, VA. Schneider, T.R. (March, 2014). Diversity Data: A Guide to Purposive Pathways for Inclusive Excellence. Invited presentation to the Division of Multicultural Affairs & Community Engagement, WSU, Ohio. Baumgartner, J., Schneider, T.R., & Capiola, A. (February, 2015). The Influence of Optimism and Flow on Psychophysiological Stress Responses. Poster presented at SPSP, Long Beach, CA. Baumgartner, J. N., & Schneider, T. R. (Feb 2015). Stress resilience: Can it be built? Paper presented at the WSU Celebration of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities, Dayton, OH. Schneider, T.R. (April, 2015). Wright State University: Faculty and Staff Diversity and Development, 2014. A self-study of representation, policies and procedures. NSF ADVANCE PI Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Schneider, T.R. (April, 2015). WSU: Climate Findings & Student Indicators. Presented to WSU President’s Cabinet. Baumgartner, J.N., Kenzig, S.M.A., & Schneider, T.R. (May, 2015). Flow Dimensions and Predictive Validity. Poster presented at MPA/Psi Chi Session, Chicago, IL. Jackson, S.M., Schneider, T.R., & Simmons, M. (May, 2015). Using Demographic Differences in climate change attitudes to shape persuasive messages. Poster presented at MPA, Chicago, IL. Baumgartner, J.N., & Schneider, T.R. (January, 2016). The Influence of Flow on Standard and Adaptive Performance in Teams. Poster presented at SPSP, San Diego, CA. Capiola, A., & Schneider, T.R. (January, 2016). The Effects of Persuasive Messages on Enhancing Extreme Weather Attitudes and Behaviors. Poster presented at SPSP, San Diego, CA. Baumgartner, J.N., Schneider, T.R., Nier, T., Gibbins, K., & Burns, G. (May, 2016). The Influence of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion on College Student Success. Poster presented at MPA, Chicago, IL. Jackson, S.M., & Schneider, T.R. (May, 2016). Do Rubrics Reduce Gender Bias Effects on Grading? An Unexpected Disadvantage. Poster presented at APS, Chicago, IL. Schneider, T.R., & Baumgartner, J.N. (August, 2016) The effects of mindset on student success. Paper presented at the Teaching for Student Success Symposium, Wright State University, Dayton, OH. Baumgartner, J.N., & Schneider, T.R. (November, 2016). A randomized controlled trial shows that mindfulness benefits persistence and success in college students. Accepted at the International Symposium of Contemplative Studies, San Diego, CA (weather prevented travel). Baumgartner, J.N., & Schneider, T.R. (January, 2017). The effects of randomized controlled trial of mindfulness on stress resilience. Poster presented at SPSP, San Antonio, TX. Capiola, A., Baumgartner, J. N., & Schneider, T. R. (January, 2017). Challenge appraisals predict better academic outcomes. Poster at SPSP, San Antonio, TX. Powar, N., Schneider, T., Skipper, J., Petkie, D.T., Asari, V., Riffle, R.R., Sherwood, M.S., & Cross, C.B. (January, 2017)). Thermal facial signatures for state assessment during deception. Paper presented at the IS&T Electronic Imaging 2017 Symposium, San Francisco, CA. Baumgartner, J. N., & Schneider, T. R. (April, 2017). A RCT shows that mindfulness promotes success in college students. Paper presented at MPA, Chicago, IL. Schneider, T.R., Griffin, K.W., & Borders, M. (May, 2017). Social and Emotional Intelligence Training to Promote Diverse and Inclusive STEM Departments and Climates. Poster presented at APS, Boston. Schneider, T.R., Jessup, S., Stokes, C., Lohani, M., & McCoy, M. (May, 2017). The Influence of Trust Propensity on Trust Behaviors. Poster presented at APS, Boston, MA. Schneider, T.R. (June, 2017). From Bias to BEST Teams in the STEM Academy. Invited presentation to HERS, University of Denver, CO. Schneider, T.R. (July, 2017). From Bias to BEST Teams in the STEM Academy. Invited presentation to HERS, Bryn Mawr, PA. Schneider, T.R. (December, 2017). Research Presentation: From Bias to BEST Teams. Invited research presentation to BIO Directorate/DEB Division, NSF, Alexandria, VA. Schneider, Tamera R. 14 Capiola, A., & Schneider, T.R. (March, 2018). The Role of Message Elaboration in the Biobehavioral Model of Persuasion. Poster to be presented at SPSP, Atlanta, GA. Baumgartner, J. N., Schneider, T. R., Bellerive, J., & Fredrick, A. (April, 2018). Meditation Experience Predicts Better Performance Under Stress and a Sub-component of Empathy. Paper given at MPA, Chicago, IL. Schneider, T.R. (April, 2018). From Implicit Bias to BEST Teams. Invited presentation in the symposium, Recognizing and responding to implicit bias in science. American Physiological Society Environmental Biology. San Diego, CA. Schneider, T.R. (May, 2018). Emotional Intelligence and Societal Flourishing. Invited presentation at the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom. The University of Chicago, Department of Psychology. Schneider, T.R. (September, 2018). Moving from bias awareness to generating innovation. Invited presentation at the NIH National Institutes of General Medical Sciences Invited Speakers Series. Bethesda, MD. Borders, M.N., Capiola, A., & Schneider, T.R. (October, 2018). Instant Reactions to Health Information. Poster to be presented at SPSP, Portland, OR. Schneider, T.R. (March, 2019). Moving Beyond Implicit Bias in STEMM. Invited Research Seminar to be presented at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN. Grant Support Awarded: External Principal Investigator: OH Board of Regents, Mechanisms that underlie successful health appeals, 12/00-06/03 ($8,839). Iams Technical Center, Enhancing the quality of guardians' pet health evaluations, 9/02-12/03 ($28,941). Iams Technical Center, Validation of quality of life/human animal bond surveys, 12/03-12/04 ($54,958). WSU Travel Grant, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction 7-day professional training, 06/2004 ($2,429). Iams Technical Center, Validation of QL/HAB surveys: Amendment, 12/03-3/06 ($29,512). Iams Technical Center, Validation of QL/HAB surveys: Home study, 06/05-12/06 ($55,822). Northrup Grumman IT, Team-based assessment of socio-technical logistics, 06/06-12/06 ($23,448). Iams Technical Center, Validation of QL and HAB survey: Home study extension, 12/06-9/07 ($31,662). CoSM Res Challenge, Developing persuasive health appeals for underserved men, 1/06-12/07 ($20,000). Northrup Grumman IT, Experimental evaluation of collaborating teams, 2/07-11/07 ($35,961). Northrup Grumman IT, Experimental evaluation of collaborating teams, 4/08-6/09 ($37,761). SRA, The Nature of Trust: A Comprehensive, 7/12-6/15 ($125,281). (sequestration stop work 2/13/2013) GLAA-C (Great Lakes Adaptation Assessment for Cities 1412610), Education and awareness campaign about global climate change, 9/30/2013-6/1/2013 ($12,500). Culture and Cognition Laboratory, Continuation of CAPS coding, suspicion research data collection. 1/1/2014 – 12/31/2015 ($50,000) + increment (GRA stipend Fall 2015) 7/1/2015 ($6,400). Total $56,400. NSF, IPA Agreement: Social Psychology Program Director, #BCS 1557217-001 (IPA15192) 8/10/15–8/9/16, $172,805; 1557217-002 (IPA16211) 8/10/16–8/9/17, $176,746, 1557217-003 (IPA17321) 8/10/17- 8/9/18, $176,746. IPA$176,746. Cumulative Total: $429,847 ORISE GRA support. GRA support (Capiola) for research in the Human-Centered Science Laboratory (HCSL, formerly CCL) 2/1/2016 – 7/28/2016. Tuition and stipend ($29,269). SRA, "Human-Centered Science Laboratory (HCSL), Human-Machine Teaming" 10/3/2016 – 08/01/2017. $25,012. ORISE GRA support. GRA support (Jessup) for research in the Human-Centered Science Laboratory (HCSL) 1/3/2017 – 1/2/2018. Tuition and stipend $42,000. SRA, TAHMT Task 001: “The Influence of Trust Propensity on Trust Behaviors,” $96,200 Direct Costs (Total $142,376). SRA, “Human-Centered Science Laboratory,” Human-Machine Teaming 7/16/2017 -3/24/2019. $32,968, and purchase of EEG ($40K) CSRA, “Human-Centered Science Laboratory,” Human-Machine Teaming 3/25/2018 – 3/24/2019. $33,839. TOTAL: $1,532,021 Co-Principal Investigator: Schneider, Tamera R. 15 NSF ADVANCE, “In the Footsteps of Katharine Wright: Promoting STEM Women through LEADER (Launching Equity in the Academy across the Dayton Entrepreneurial Region),” 9/08-9/13 ($2.84 million; NCE to 8/2015). Role: Proposed and directed behavioral research program on STEM faculty climate, testing persuasive presentations on implicit attitudes about women in STEM, and persuading hospitable STEM workplaces, across 4 institutions. Leonard Wood Institute, “Multimodal Image-Based State Assessment for Operator Interface Design,” 09/09- 10/10 ($683,159). Role: Conceive of and conduct human state assessment research relating to stress and emotion. Office of Naval Research, “Multimodal Human Signatures for State Assessment and Threat Evaluation,” 01/10-10/12 ($395,540). Role: Conceive of and conduct human state assessment research relating to deceptive intention. Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program, “Compact Scalable System for Human Identification and State Assessment: Phase I,” 09/2010 – 02/28/2011 ($118,630: WSU $36,000). Role: Discern and incorporate biometrics for ongoing human state assessment research. TOTAL: $4,037,329 Grant Review 06/05-06/06 NIH/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Clinical Research Proposals 5/06 NIH special emphasis, interventions for combat-related PTSD 3/09 NIH/National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities special emphasis. P60 Centers of Excellence 2009 Yale University Women’s Health Research ad hoc, NSF Doctoral Diss Res Decision, Risk, & Management Sciences, mail review 2010 University of Padova, Italy, Univ Res: Message framing & psychophys, NSF ADVANCE- RESERVE ad hoc 2012 Social Sci & Humanities Res Council Canada (SSHRC); Air Force Ofc Sci Res (AFOSR); WSU HERS Presidential Screening Committee 2015 NSF, ad hoc review Site Panelist NSF ADVANCE site panelist, University of Illinois – Chicago (2009) Editorial Experience Basic and Applied Social Psychology 2010-2015 2018: Frontiers of Psychology Special Issue: Individual Differences and User Trust in Automation and Autonomous Systems. Co-Editors: Gene Alarcon & Tamera Schneider Ad-hoc Journal Reviewer Anxiety, Stress, and Coping Basic and Applied Social Psychology British Journal of Health Psychology European Journal of Personality Health Psychology Human Resource Management Review Learning and Individual Differences Journal of Applied Social Psychology Journal of Clinical Psychology Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Journal of Happiness Studies Journal of Health Psychology Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Personality and Individual Differences Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Psychological Science Psychology and Health Psychology of Women Quarterly Psychophysiology Public Health Nutrition Review of General Psychology Social Psychology Social and Personality Psychology Compass Stress and Health Schneider, Tamera R. 16 Professional Affiliations American Association for the Advancement of Science Association for Psychological Science - Fellow American Psychological Association: Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Div. 8); Health Psychology (Div. 38) Society for Experimental Social Psychology - Fellow Society for Psychophysiological Research Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology Leadership in Professional Organizations Health Psychology (APA Div. 38) board, membership committee. 2005-2012 Teaching Experience – Graduate Research Theses (defense date in parenthesis): Chair: Kevin Gildea (Co-Chair; 2002), Joseph Lyons (Co-Chair; 2003), Tami April, 2004, Markus Feufel (2006), Gaea Payton (2010), Emily Polander (2010), Becky Riffle (2011), Sarah Jackson (2011), Jessica Pack (2015), Jennifer Baumgartner (2015), Sarah Jessup (2018), Morgan Borders (2018- Committee member: Regina Buccello (2002), Esteban Tristan (2002), Barbara Emrick (2003), Rachel Parrill, Nursing (2006), Katherine Lippa (2006), Gene Alarcon (2006), Greg Hammond (2007), Qiang Wang (2008), Liz Shoda (2013); University of Dayton, Lorraine Januzelli (2014); Auroabah Almufleh Qualifying Examinations (exam date in parenthesis): Chair: Joseph Lyons (2004), Shannon Posey (2006), Emily Polander (2011), Sarah Jackson (2013) Nicole Arbuckle (2011), August Capiola (2015), Jenny Baumgartner (2016), Committee member: Paul Heinz (2003), Regina Schmidt (2005), Pam Dowling (2006), Markus Feufel (2007), Gene Alarcon (2007), John Kegley (2009), Tim McEwen (2010), Mike Hoepf (2011), Caleb Bragg (2013), Liz Shoda (2014-16), David Periard (2015); Betsy Fox (2015), Alex Hough (2018), Sarah Jessup (2018-) Dissertations: Chair: Joseph Lyons Ph.D. (2004), Shannon Posey (2006-2007), Charlene Stokes Ph.D. (2008), John Kegley (2016), Sarah Jackson (2016), Jennifer Baumgartner (2018), August Capiola (2018) Committee member: Kevin Gildea Ph.D. (2004), Maria Williams, Psy.D. (School of Professional Psychology) (2007), Regina Shia Ph.D. (2008), Markus Feufel, Ph.D. (2009), Pamela Dowling, Ph.D. (2009), Kevin Eshelman (2011), Emily Polander (2012-13), Megan Morris (2014), Steve Khazon (2016), Betsy Fox (2016-) Graduate Courses Stress, Health, & Cognition; Group Processes & Social Behavior; Writing in Psychology; Dissertation and Proposal Writing Teaching Experience – Undergraduate Honors Research Yale (co-advisor): Sunny Huang, Valerie Wolrich WSU (Advisor): Nicole Katulak (Research Associate, Yale University, Center for Emotional Intelligence) Elizabeth Stevens (Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Case Western Reserve University) Maria Williams (Psy.D., SOPP at WSU) Jayme Arose (M.D., Toledo Medical College) Tara Rench (Ph.D. I/O Psychology, Michigan State University) Cynthia Rogers (pursuing interests in neuroscience and teaching) Andrea Jarosz (Veterinary Medicine, OSU) Bridgette Bonifas (Family Intervention Specialist, Knoxville, TN) Schneider, Tamera R. 17 Asiah Steward (Graduated 2013) Taylor Guerrant (Graduated 2013, Ph.D. student, Social Work, OSU) Erica Page (2013; graduate student, IO Psychology, U Toledo) Stephanie Kenzig (Spring 2013-2014) Undergraduate Courses Psychology of Health Behavior; Positive Psychology; Stress & Emotion; Social Psychology Research Methods; Abnormal Psychology; Applied Practicum in Psychology Department Service Member, Undergraduate Curriculum and Development Committee, 2000-5/2014 Faculty Co-Advisor, Supplemental Instruction (SI) Faculty, 2001 Faculty Advisor, Psi Chi, 2000-2001 Faculty Advisor, Psychology Club, 2000-2001 Member, Statistics Sequence in Psychology, 2003-2004 Member, Undergraduate Petitions Committee, 2005-2008 Member, Instructor Search Committee, 2006 Member, I/O Search Committee, 2006-2008 Area Leader, Human Factors Graduate Program Concentration, 2006-2008; 2013-5/2014 Faculty Development Committee Chair, 2012/2013 College/University Service Member, CoSM Teaching Award Committee, 2002, 2003 (2 terms) Member, Undergraduate Petitions Committee, 2005-2008 (2 terms) Member, Research Challenge Proposal Review, 2006 Member, STEP grant, Introducing Students to the Nature of Science, 2006, minor role Executive Committee (Strategic Planning), Women in Science Giving Circle (WISG), 2006-2008 Member, WISGC Grant Proposal Review, 2007 WISGC Bylaws, Communication Committees 2012-present. CoSM Research Council, internal grant reviewer, 2009 CoSM Research Advisory Committee, 2010 Executive Committee, NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (monthly meetings) Regional summer writing group for pre-tenured women faculty in STEM 2010-2015, extended to all faculty in 2012. Offered twice a year beginning in 2013-present) Mentoring Committee (2008-2011); Coaching Committee (Chair; 2008-2011); Chair Toolkit (2013-14) Academic Mediation Committee, 2011-2014 Investigation Committee (Research and Sponsored Programs: Confidential Issues), Fall 2012-2014 Faculty Senate 6/2012 – 2014 Nominated to Faculty Senate Executive Committee: 2014 - (declined due to Asst. VP position) Chair, 2012 – 2014 (2-year term): University Student Success Committee Faculty Senate ad hoc committee: Student Recruitment, 2012/2013 AY Faculty Senate ad hoc committee: Quadrennial Review, 2012/2013 AY (faculty approved Fall 2013) Faculty Senate ad hoc committee: International Programs Oversight Committee, 2013/2014 5-year Dean Review Committee: SOPP Dean, Winter/Summer 2013 STEMMS (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine) Women’s advancement and mentoring focus, Director-Elect, 2015. Declined due to 8/2015 NSF appointment. Professional Service Judge, West District Science Day, 2003-2006 Reviewer, SIOP Conference Program, 2006 Reviewer, NDM9 (Naturalistic Decision Making 9th meeting), 2008 Schneider, Tamera R. 18 Consultant (in kind), British Broadcasting Company (BBC). Personality, physiology, and stress, 12/09-01/10. Conflict mediator, Dayton Mediation Center. Community and court referred mediation, 2009-2011. Committee member, Alcohol and Other Drugs. Prevention in adolescents, 2009-2011. Dissertation examiner, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Profiling the profiler: Exploring the role of cues in the development of expertise within the domain of offender profiling. May, 2010. Dissertation examiner, The University of Newcastle, NSW Australia. A study into fear appeals and an exploration of sun related health behavior. November, 2012. Advisory Panel: NSF-GSE: PI: Dr. Amanda Diekman, 2012 – 8/2015. Provided consultation about research program investigating the influence of communal versus agentic goals on undergraduate engagement with STEM disciplines. Community: Oakwood Band Parent Board 2009-11, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus 2009-15 (soprano) Board of Trustees of The City University of New York RESOLUTION TO Appoint Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bronx Community College January 13, 2020 WHEREAS, Dr. Rápalo has over 15 years of experience in academic affairs and higher education and is currently serving as the Campus Dean (equivalent to Provost) and Dean of the Institute of Intensive English at Union County Community College in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His responsible for supervising five Deans, 12 college academic departments, 295 faculty and staff, and 133 adjunct faculty. In addition, Dr. Rápalo has taught at various levels of education including middle-school and high school students at the Calhoun School in New York City; and WHEREAS, Dr. Rápalo earned a Doctor of Education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, and a Master of Arts in Literature and Linguistics and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. Dr. Rápalo has received two honorary degrees recognized by the United Nations, a Doctor in Humanities from the United Graduate College and Seminary International and a Doctors of Letters from the Academy of Universal Global Peace for his humanitarian efforts to bring educational opportunities to underprivileged communities; and WHEREAS, Dr. Rápalo has been granted several awards for his community outreach effort, including The World Civility Award awarded by Ambassador Clyde Rivers and IChange Nations and the Human Excellence Gold Medal Award awarded by the United Nations University for Global Peace. During his tenure at Union County College, Dr. Rápalo was named “Ambassador of Education and Culture” by the Desfile Salvadoreño and was recognized by the United Nations for his efforts in hosting the “V Education Forum” held in Elizabeth, New Jersey; and WHEREAS, Dr. Rápalo’s extensive experience in higher education administration coupled with his institutional management of campus-wide programs (including the TRINITAS School of Nursing, English as a Second Language (ESL), and Perkins grant funding) will be an asset to the management of the College’s program offerings. His experience with community outreach and partnerships will assist the College with leveraging key resources to address the diverse needs of the campus community to enhance the overall student experience; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York approve the appointment of Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs effective February 4, 2020 at an annual salary of $188,500. EXPLANATION: Bronx Community College conducted a national search and executed a comprehensive recruitment strategy that included placing ads in national journals and diverse professional and academic organizations. Sixty (60) applications were received from a diverse pool of applicants. Dr. Rápalo will report directly to the President and be a member of the President’s Executive Cabinet. He will supervise Academic Affairs and related pre college and academic programs. He will work collaboratively with the College’s leadership to ensure effective operations of the division to support the College’s academic and student success goals are achieved and optimal student outcomes are accomplished. The President strongly recommends this appointment. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Ed.D., MBA, M.A. EDUCATION Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) - Higher Education Leadership 2013 Nova Southeastern University - Fort Lauderdale, Florida Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) 2017 Syracuse University - Syracuse, New York Master of Arts (M.A.) - Literature and Linguistics, cum laude 2006 University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Massachusetts Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Spanish, cum laude 2003 University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Massachusetts Other Relevant Education National Community College Hispanic Council Leadership Fellows Program 2018 San Diego, California Honorary Degree, Doctor in Humanities 2019 United Graduate College and Seminary International UGCSI#12-HDH-0926-2019-USA-06670-LSR LANGUAGES Spanish (Native) English (Native) Portuguese (Professional Fluency) PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Outstanding administrator with experience in, inter alia, student affairs, academic affairs, enrollment management, strategic and change management, policy formulation, budget management and fundraising, business partnerships and coalition building, personnel administration, educational planning and evaluation, program development, study abroad, media and technology competency, faculty and student conflict resolution, and teaching and internationalization of curriculum. Over 17 years of experience bringing together multiple stakeholders for a common goal to provide and make accessible quality education to all members of the community. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2017 – Present Campus Dean (Equivalent to Provost) & Dean of the Institute for Intensive English Union County College, Elizabeth, New Jersey Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 1 Union County College (UCC): a comprehensive community college serving over 150,000 residents of Union County, New Jersey; 9,700 students with 30,000 credit, non-credit, and continuing education students (with the largest non-credit enrollment among the nineteen New Jersey County Community Colleges); total budget of $65,000,000; 130 full-time faculty, 300 adjunct faculty, and 100 additional employees; three collective bargaining unions, and a geographical service area of 10,000 square miles. UCC is the oldest community college in the state of New Jersey and operates major campuses in Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield, and Scotch Plains. UCC has four campuses, and offers degree, adult, and continuing education programs. The Institute for Intensive English provides a program of intensive instruction in English for speakers of other (i.e., non-English) languages, offering levels 3 through 6. Through this program, students have the opportunity to enhance their English language abilities in order to further their academic, career, and/or personal goals. Currently, the Institute has 19 full- time faculty members, a director and two administrative assistants, who all report to the Campus Dean. Campus Dean (Equivalent to Provost): Responsible for 20% of the college budget, $10,000,000+; supervise 5 deans, 12 academic departments, 295 faculty and staff, and 133 adjuncts. Primary Responsibilities: § Institutional management of all campus-wide programs, including the TRINITAS School of Nursing, the English as a Second Language (ESL) program and 12 academic departments. § Serve as the Perkins Director for the College with an operating grant of $755,000 per year and funding allocated to 31 academic programs to support purchase of supplies and equipment and professional development. Over the past seven years, over $4,000,000 have been allocated. 8% increase achieved for Perkins FY2020 grant as compared to FY2019. § Responsible for policy development and strategic planning in a wide range of areas supporting academic affairs and student affairs, including, inter alia, assessment, curriculum development, international students, One Stop Center, Career Services and Internships, counseling, student life, faculty development, enrollment, Veteran’s Affairs, Women’s Center, and course scheduling college-wide. § Serve as liaison between the College and the City of Elizabeth and work with area organizations to bring the College’s services to the community. § Provide college-wide leadership to the assessment, coordination, and delivery of a student-centered culture supporting all students and academic programs. § Meet periodically with the Division Deans to facilitate their decision-making in course additions, cancelations, and consolidations, following assessment of the needs of students in relation to the costs for effective operation of the College. § Participate in marketing and outreach efforts to increase student enrollment and retention, which includes media appearances on television and in print, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and collaboration with local high schools and community groups, including collaboration with the United Way of Greater Union County and the United Nations. § Provide executive leadership and support to all units throughout the Campus. § Serve as a member of and work collaboratively with the President’s Leadership Cabinet. Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 2 § Serve as a member of the College’s Personnel, which is responsible for reviewing faculty credentials and portfolios for reappointment, tenure and promotion. § Lead the academic and student development structure of the College supported by division deans and unit directors. § Determine budget priorities and develop annual budget for the Elizabeth campus. § Work in concert with the Vice President of the College to review credentials of and interview all candidates for faculty/staff positions within the division. § Ensure effective coordination of submission of curricular items by division deans. § Work collaboratively with the Division of Institutional Research and Assessment to ensure active engagement and adherence to annual review, external review, and accreditation requirements. § Design, implement and evaluate curricular learning communities. § Monitor enrollment, including Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar, Scholarships, Dual Enrollment programs and transfer initiatives. § Reappoint tenured faculty members. § Grant sabbatical recommendations to the President’s office. § Manage the enrollment of four campuses: Elizabeth, Cranford, Scotch Plains, and Plainfield and our Online offerings. § Serve as the Division Dean of the Institute for Intensive English. § Mentor junior faculty and adjuncts in teaching, program development, assessment and professional development. § Manage enrollment of 3,000 students, 586 nursing students, including curriculum review, academic requirements, faculty personnel issues, and recruitment. § Serve as member of Student and Academic Affairs Executive Leadership Team. § Serve as member of the Academic Handbook Committee and responsible for updating the Academic Handbook. § Serve as member of Academic Affairs Executive Leadership Team. § Shape and cultivate a divisional ethos guided by student learning and developmental theory. § Oversee public safety. § Manage and oversee the following areas within the college: Academic Learning Center, APR, CEWD/IBI/CE, Managed Facilities, Financial Aid, I.I.E., Library, Media Services, One Stop (Student Affairs), Student Life, TRINITAS. § Manage in-house college-wide schedule production. § Manage and oversee college-wide grade appeals. § Manage and oversee college-wide five Year Academic Program Reviews. § Manage and oversee student development at the Elizabeth Campus. § Serve on TRINITAS school of Nursing advisory committee. § Maintain Union County College Advisory Board Guidelines and CTE Program Advisory Committee Handbook and distribute to deans and Perkins program managers. § Serve on the AAUP Negotiations committee. Accomplishments & Contributions: § Increased the ESL Division enrollment by 2%. § Increased Online enrollment by 22%. § Increased faculty/staff satisfaction rates for FY2019. § Increased online offerings from 2.00 (Fall 2017) to 4.0 (Fall 2019). § Expanded Freshman Year Student Success. § Secured Perkins Grant capital $755,855 for FY2020. Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 3 § Launched the first Study Abroad Program at UCC with an articulation agreement with Universidad de Iberoamerica (“UNIBE”) in Costa Rica. § Worked in collaboration with Latin American consulates to bring UCC students on multiple occasions to the United Nations (UN) to attend round table discussions and receive a private tour of the UN, including the General Assembly. § Hosted 35 prospective students from El Salvador and México in collaboration with the El Salvador and Mexican consuls. § Hosted Carlos Alomar, Puerto Rican guitarist known for his collaboration with David Bowie, as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. § Established productive external partnerships to grow workforce development opportunities with private industry, government, and non-profit entities including corporate, city, and non-profit. § Increased student retention rates on the Elizabeth Campus while partnering with Student Affairs. § Hosted Senator Bob Menendez at UCC to discuss Pell Grants and college affordability. § Significantly expanded food pantries for students. § Created Academic Specialist positions. § Provided administrative leadership in creating a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Student Organization. § Developed intrusive academic advising for marginal and probationary students. § Launched the following online programs: Sociology, Psychology, Business, Philosophy, History, Sports Management, Business Management, Office Professional, Economics, and Social Services. § Attended Greater Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce events, Rotary Club of Elizabeth meetings and NJBIA Employer Legislative meetings. § Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between UCC and the Kitami Institute of Technology in Japan. 2015 – 2018 Dean of Social Sciences, Business & History Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey Union County College (UCC): a comprehensive community college serving over 150,000 residents of Union County, New Jersey; 9,700 students with 30,000 credit, non-credit, and continuing education students (with the largest non-credit enrollment among the nineteen New Jersey County Community Colleges); total budget of $65,000,000; 130 full-time faculty, 300 adjunct faculty, and 100 additional employees; three collective bargaining unions, and a geographical service area of 10,000 square miles. UCC is the oldest community college in the state of New Jersey and operates major campuses in Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield, and Scotch Plains. UCC has four campuses, and offers degree, adult, and continuing education programs. Dean of Social Sciences, Business & History (SSBH): Responsible for 5% of college budget, $4,000,000; supervise a division with over 165 employees, including 20 full-time faculty members, five full-time academic specialists, an assistant dean and 154 part-time professors; manage ten out of twelve online programs college-wide. Primary Responsibilities: § Managed a division of 22 full-time faculty and 140 adjuncts in Accounting, Business, Business Management, Business Marketing, Criminal Justice, Early Childhood Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 4 Elementary Education, Education, Fire Science Technology, History, Hotel Restaurant and Tourism Management, Liberal Studies, Office Professional, Paralegal Studies, Psychology, Public Administration, Social Services, Sociology, Sport Management and Supply Chain Management. § Managed the enrollment of three campuses: Elizabeth, Cranford, Plainfield and Scotch Plains, New Jersey. § Mentored junior faculty and adjuncts in teaching, program development, assessment and professional development. § Managed enrollment of 9,000 students, curriculum review, academic requirements and faculty personnel issues, including recruitment, interviews, orientation and performance assessment. § Led the Division’s strategic planning, mission and vision. § Oversaw curriculum changes for the Division by working collaboratively with the full- time faculty and academic specialists. § Managed a budget of over $4,000,000 with an eye for outcomes based budgeting. § Comprehensively trained in budget matters by the American Management Association. § Proactively managed enrollment for the Division with a wholesome approach that took into consideration student needs, institutional strengths and curriculum imperatives. § Completed modules on Leadership and Practices Reassessment, Aiming and Applying Strengths, Work of Leaders, Engagement and Performance Management, Leading and Managing Change, Organizational Culture, The Business of Higher Education. § Oversaw Perkins grant activity for the SSBH division, including assistant dean’s role in delivering advisory committee meetings and event planning for the grant. § Provided college-wide leadership in the assessment, coordination and delivery of a student-centered culture supporting all students and all academic programs, including responsibility for policy development and strategic planning in a wide range of areas supporting academic affairs and student affairs including: assessment, curriculum development, international students, One Stop Center, Career Services and Internships, counseling, Perkins, Student Life, faculty development, enrollment, Veteran’s Affairs, Women’s Centers, and course scheduling college-wide. § Served as member of Student Affairs Executive Leadership Team. § Served as member of Academic Affairs Executive Leadership Team. § Shaped and cultivated a divisional ethos guided by student learning and developmental theory. § Served on the sabbatical committee. § Provided leadership, advocacy, and support for professors. § Coordinated Division course offerings and staffing. § Worked closely with all division Deans and Vice President of Enrollment. § Provided mentorship to professors. Accomplishments & Contributions: § Received a certificate for successful completion in Organizational Management training by the Leadership Academy (a leading organization for the training of executive higher education leaders). § Improved course scheduling and workload tracking process. § Developed a vision and strategic plan that focused on student development, diversity and multiculturalism, learning communities, residential colleges, student retention and facilities design. § Launched a Supply Chain Management Program (first in the State of New Jersey). § Launched a Faculty Advising Model. Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 5 § Launched five Online Programs (Business, Marketing, Criminal Justice, Social Sciences). § Launched Open Education Resources (History, Psychology, Philosophy). § Increased online enrollment by 5%. § Promoted three faculty members to tenure. § Reappointed four tenured faculty members. § Established satellite tutorial, writing and math service 2016 – 2017 Interim Dean of American Honors Union County College, Elizabeth, New Jersey Union County College (UCC): a comprehensive community college serving over 150,000 residents of Union County, New Jersey; 9,700 students with 30,000 credit, non-credit, and continuing education students (with the largest non-credit enrollment among the nineteen New Jersey County Community Colleges); total budget of $65,000,000; 130 full time faculty, 300 adjunct faculty, and 100 additional employees; three collective bargaining unions, and a geographical service area of 10,000 square miles. UCC is the oldest community college in the state of New Jersey and operates major campuses in Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield, and Scotch Plains. UCC has four campuses, and offers degree, adult, and continuing education programs. Interim Dean of American Honors: Responsible for a division with over 165 employees, including 20 full-time faculty members, five full-time academic specialists, four assistant deans and 8 academic specialists college-wide. Primary Responsibilities: § Managed a division of more than 20 full-time faculty across all disciplines college-wide. § Managed the American Honors enrollment of three campuses: Elizabeth, Cranford, and Plainfield, New Jersey. § Coordinated all division planning and budgeting, instructional administration, program evaluation and development of new Honors courses. § Mentored junior faculty with respect to teaching, program development, assessment and professional development relating to Honors courses and programs. Accomplishments & Contributions: § Increased American Honors enrollment by 5%. § Increased American Honors tutoring hours college-wide. § Placed students at the following universities: New York University, Columbia University, Rutgers University, and Stanford University, among others. 2014 – 2015 Teacher The Calhoun School, New York, New York The Calhoun School: The Calhoun School is a private school in New York City serving over 700 students, ranging from kindergarten to high school. Primary Responsibilities: Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 6 § Taught middle school- and high school-aged students in Mathematics, English, Humanities, Spanish, Mandarin, History, Arts, Social Studies, Study Skills and Music. § Prepare lesson plans and class rosters. § Organize all assigned coursework and provide feedback to the coordinator regarding student progress, student attendance and student conduct. 2012 – 2014 Interim Dean of Humanities & Foreign Language Valencia College, Orlando, Florida Valencia College: Valencia College is a Community College in the state of Florida serving over 70,000 students throughout Orange and Osceola Counties in Central Florida. Valencia College serves over 60,000 credit-seeking students, including over 1,000 international students, and an additional 10,000 non-credit seeking students, including postsecondary adult vocational, continuing workforce and continuing education students. Valencia College’s operating budget is over $200,000,000 per year. Valencia College is comprised of six campuses (East, Lake Nona, Osceola, Poinciana, West, and Winter Park), with nearly a third of students enrolled at more than one campus. Valencia College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and won the best community college award as the inaugural winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Valencia College is ranked 4th in the nation for the number of associate degrees awarded and is the 2nd largest state college of Florida’s 28 state colleges. Interim Dean of Humanities & Foreign Language: Responsible for a division with over 100 employees, including 20 full-time faculty members, and 90 part-time professors. The dean has oversight of over 10 central office professional staff and annual budget of $10,000,000. Primary Responsibilities: § Led the division’s s trategic planning, mission and vision. § Coordinated all division planning and budgeting, instructional administration, program evaluation and development with a division that generated more than 60% of the College’s total student enrollment and more than 50% of its contact hours with an approximate $10,000,000 budget. § Served 40,000 students annually and supervised 40 full-time faculty, 120 part-time faculty and 30 adjunct professors. § Oversaw hiring committees responsible for faculty and staff hiring. § Mentored junior faculty and adjuncts in teaching, program development, assessment and professional development. § Managed enrollment, curriculum review, academic requirements and faculty personnel issues, including recruitment, interviews, orientation and performance assessment. § Served as member of Student Affairs Executive Leadership Team. § Shaped and cultivated a departmental ethos guided by student learning and developmental theory. § Developed a vision and strategic plan that focused on student development, diversity and multiculturalism, learning communities, residential colleges, student retention and facilities design. Accomplishments and Contributions: Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 7 § Played a key administrative role in the self-studies and external reviews of college- wide programs, including the Valencia College Core Curriculum and Paris, France and Quito, Ecuador study abroad programs. § Led a department self-study and external review which resulted in a major curriculum revision of the Foreign Languages and Humanities departments. § Designed and implemented a new Humanities and Foreign Language program for tenured faculty members consisting of reviews, assessment and evaluation of course development and implementation and professional development. § Directed faculty through a strategic planning process, including the creation and revision of the department’s mission statement. § Launched initiative to publicize faculty scholarship program. § Increased number of service-learning and online education classes. § Initiated new student programs, including the Heritage for Spanish Speakers program, Foreign Language Outreach program, and Study Abroad program. § Served on key campus committees including the Academic Affairs Committee, Curriculum Committee and Strategic Planning Committee. 2008 – 2012 Chair of Humanities & Foreign Language Valencia College, Orlando, Florida Valencia College: Valencia College is a Community College in the state of Florida serving over 70,000 students throughout Orange and Osceola Counties in Central Florida. Valencia College serves over 60,000 credit-seeking students, including over 1,000 international students, and an additional 10,000 non-credit seeking students, including postsecondary adult vocational, continuing workforce and continuing education students. Valencia College’s operating budget is over $200,000,000 per year. Valencia College is comprised of six campuses (East, Lake Nona, Osceola, Poinciana, West, and Winter Park), with nearly a third of students enrolled at more than one campus. Valencia College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and won the best community college award as the inaugural winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Valencia College is ranked 4th in the nation for the number of associate degrees awarded and is the 2nd largest state college of Florida’s 28 state colleges. Chair of Humanities & Foreign Language: Responsible for a division with over 100 employees including 20 full time faculty members, and 90 part-time professors. Leads the division’s strategic planning, mission and vision. Primary Responsibilities: § Conducted curricular and administrative duties. § Helped serve approximately 15,000 students each semester. § Led department of 40 full-time faculty, 120 part-time faculty and 30 adjunct professors. § Managed department administrative budget and endowed funds. § Recruited, interviewed and hired full-time, part-time and adjunct faculty members. § Generated course schedules for the academic year for all full-time, part-time and adjunct faculty members. § Headed the measurement of student achievement, program outcomes and curricula goals in the department. § Developed and allocated the departmental budget. Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 8 § Collaborated with chairs and deans college-wide on semester scheduling and faculty assignments. § Updated department offerings and programs in the College Catalog. § Supervised and coordinated all division planning and budgeting, program evaluation and instructional administration. § Mentored junior faculty and adjuncts in teaching, program development, assessment and professional development. Accomplishments and Contributions: § Conducted a departmental self-study and external review which resulted in a major curriculum revision in the Foreign Languages and Humanities departments. § Added face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses in Arabic, German, and Italian. § Hired and mentored 3 tenure-track and 10 visiting junior faculty members. § Launched a Foreign Language tutoring lab that served approximately 7,000 students per semester. § Developed interdisciplinary study abroad programs in Quito, Ecuador and Paris, France. § Advocated to publicize Spanish Heritage and Foreign Language courses college-wide and throughout the greater Central Florida community. § Designed a Humanities and Foreign Languages website. § Spearheaded initiative to publicize faculty scholarships. § Increased number of service-learning and online education classes. 2012 – 2014 Program Director Valencia College, Orlando, Florida Valencia College: Valencia College is a Community College in the state of Florida serving over 70,000 students throughout Orange and Osceola Counties in Central Florida. Valencia College serves over 60,000 credit-seeking students, including over 1,000 international students, and an additional 10,000 non-credit seeking students, including postsecondary adult vocational, continuing workforce and continuing education students. Valencia College’s operating budget is over $200,000,000 per year. Valencia College is comprised of six campuses (East, Lake Nona, Osceola, Poinciana, West, and Winter Park), with nearly a third of students enrolled at more than one campus. Valencia College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and won the best community college award as the inaugural winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Valencia College is ranked 4th in the nation for the number of associate degrees awarded and is the 2nd largest state college of Florida’s 28 state colleges. Program Director: Responsible for the development of international study abroad programs, including programs in Europe, Latin America, and Asia; supervised 10 employees, including departmental deans and academic chairs. Primary Responsibilities: § Assisted in facilitating and organizing conferences for Housing Services. § Arranged 100 students’ flights, lodging, meal reservations and dormitory placements. § Held weekly office-hours. § Aided and supervised Teaching Assistants. § Processed scholarship applications, registration forms and incoming student payments. Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 9 § Addressed students’ and parents’ questions and concerns. Accomplishments and Contributions: § Created interdisciplinary study abroad programs in Quito, Ecuador and Paris, France. § Programmed, organized and budgeted classes, cultural activities and excursions. § Created Program Information Packets, both virtual and hardcopy. 2004 – 2006 Study Abroad Program Director University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts University of Massachusetts – Amherst: The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is the flagship public research university in Massachusetts serving over 23,000 undergraduate and over 7,000 graduate students with approximately 1,300 full-time instructional faculty members. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is a national ranked public research university with over 100 bachelor’s degree programs, over 75 master’s and over 45 doctoral programs offered by nine different schools and colleges. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is ranked 26th among more than 700 public universities and colleges by the U.S. News and World Report’s annual college guide. Study Abroad Program Director: Responsible for expanding the study abroad program and helping the college to internationalize its curriculum and college experience for both domestic and international students. Primary Responsibilities: § Managed $50,000 in funds. § Coordinated over 150 flights, hotel, and meal reservations. § Held weekly office-hours. § Documented students’ grades. § Aided and supervised three Teaching Assistants. § Processed scholarship applications, registration forms and incoming student payments. § Addressed students’ and parents’ questions and concerns. Accomplishments and Contributions: § Designed and taught a Spanish conversation course for the study abroad participants. § Evaluated three Teaching Assistants. § Created a Salamanca Study Abroad Program review and conducted program assessment. § Created a virtual and hardcopy Information Packet. 2004 – 2006 Residence Director University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts University of Massachusetts – Amherst: The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is the flagship public research university in Massachusetts serving over 23,000 undergraduate and over 7,000 graduate students with approximately 1,300 full-time instructional faculty members. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is a national ranked public research university with over 100 bachelor’s degree programs, over 75 master’s and over 45 doctoral programs offered by nine different schools and colleges. The University of Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 10 Massachusetts, Amherst is ranked 26th among more than 700 public universities and colleges by the U.S. News and World Report’s annual college guide. Residence Director: Responsible for direct oversight for all housing operations and residential facilities, including housing assignments, administration of meal plan, information management systems, maintenance and custodial operations, repair, renovation and capital projects. Primary Responsibilities: § Provided overall direction, budgetary management, leadership and vision for a 1,500 bed residence hall/apartment community. § Provided direct oversight for all housing operations and residential facilities, including housing assignments, administration of meal plan, information management systems, maintenance and custodial operations, repair, renovation and capital projects. § Served as Chief Conduct Officer for residential system. § Assisted in facilitating and organizing conferences for Housing Services. § Served 35,000 students college-wide. § Oversaw an average of 1,500 international and national students per year and served as a role-model for the students living within the residential community. § Counseled students facing personal or academic crisis while advocating for responsible choices. § Developed activities to encourage student-resident involvement on campus and throughout the greater Western Massachusetts community. § Actively participated in weekly staff meetings. § Supervised 25 Resident Assistants. § Served as University conduct administrator. § Served in an on-call capacity to support Senior Staff emergency response during evenings, weekends, and holidays. § Recruited, selected, and trained professional, paraprofessional, and support staff. § Served as Housing and Residence Life liaison to other student development functional areas including New Students Programs, Athletics, Recreational Sports, and Office of Multicultural Affairs. § Met directly with students to discuss and/or counsel with personal, developmental, and academic difficulties. § Served as Chief Conduct Officer for the residential system. Assisted in facilitating and organizing conferences for Housing Services. § Oversaw an average of 1,500 international and national students per year and served as a role-model for the students living within the residential community. § Counseled students facing personal or academic crisis while advocating for responsible choices. § Developed activities to encourage student-resident involvement on campus and throughout the greater Western Massachusetts community. TEACHING PROFILE Experienced educator, professor and tutor; expert in creative lesson planning; significant experience in curriculum development and development of institutional best practices; trained leader in classroom management and discipline; extensive background in learner assessment, including, but not limited to, standardized testing/scoring, experiential learning and special needs students; exceptionally adept at instituting active learning methods and Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 11 facilitating student participation; qualified to deliver teaching material in all platforms, including face-to-face, hybrid and electronic. Teaching pedagogy: To foster the learning-centered philosophy into students’ daily educational experience through inclusiveness in personal strategic planning, building a culture based on success and promoting service learning for the community FACULTY/TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2017- Present Professor of Business (Graduate) College of Saint Elizabeth, New Jersey Primary Responsibilities: § Instructed graduate courses. § Prepared syllabi, developed learning activities, assessed and conferenced with students. Business courses taught (face-to-face, online and hybrid) § BUS 619: Organizational Theory § BUS 601: Human Resources Management 2014-2015 Teacher (High School) The Calhoun School, New York, New York Primary Responsibilities: § Taught middle school and high school students in Mathematics, English, Spanish, Mandarin, History, Social Studies, Study Skills and Music. § Prepared lesson plans and class rosters. § Organized all assigned coursework and provide feedback to the coordinator regarding student progress, student attendance and student conduct. 2007- 2014 Professor of Foreign Language and Humanities (Undergraduate) Valencia College, Orlando, Florida Foreign Language Courses Taught: (face-to-face, hybrid and online) § Basic Spanish § Elementary Spanish I & II § Intermediate Spanish I & II § Intensive Spanish § Spanish for Heritage Speakers I & II § Conversational Spanish I & II § Latin American Humanities Education Courses Taught: (face-to-face, hybrid and online) § Introduction to Early Childhood Education § Curriculum Development § Family, School and Community Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 12 § Student Success Humanities Courses Taught: (face-to-face, hybrid and online) § Introduction to Humanities § Latin American Humanities § Latino Identity 2003-2006 Teaching Associate (Undergraduate) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Foreign Language Courses Taught: (face-to-face, hybrid and online) § Elementary Spanish I § Elementary Spanish II § Conversational Spanish § Intermediate Spanish I § Intermediate Spanish II 2001-2003 Basketball Instructor (Undergraduate) University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts Primary Responsibilities: § Instructed basic basketball skills for the Physical Education Program. § Promoted participation and class discussion. § Served as academic and personal mentor for 50 graduate and undergraduate students. 2001-2006 Volunteer Instructor (Middle School) Crocker Farm Middle School, Amherst, Massachusetts § Promoted higher education to middle school and high school students, supervised 10 undergraduate tutors, designed training models for mentors and facilitated dialogue on education, diversity and peer-interaction. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES § Board of Directors, Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce § Board Member, The United Way of Greater New Jersey § Hosted the Vice President of Costa Rica, Mrs. Epsy Campbell Barr, the first time in the history of Union County College to receive an international executive to our campus AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS § Acknowledged by the Consul of El Salvador for New Jersey and Delaware for my on-going support of education, art, and culture of the Salvadoran and other minorities § Recognized by the United Nations for hosting an OPAD conference in Elizabeth, New Jersey Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 13 § Acknowledged by Academia Norteamericana de Literatura Moderna Internacional y la Asociación de Naciones Unidas de El Salvador for hosting the first Ecuatorial Guinea conference on the importance of languages, held in Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 1, 2019 § Named “Ambassador of Education and Culture” by the Desfile Salvadoreño § Recognized by the United Nations for the “V Education Forum” held in Elizabeth, New Jersey § Awarded a Resolution by the Union County Freeholders for promoting education, diversity, and inclusion for hosting the First International Concert for Peace in Elizabeth, New Jersey SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES § National Community College Hispanic Council (NCCHC) § American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) § National Council on Black American Affairs (NCBAA) SELECTED COLLEGE ACTIVITIES § Member, President’s Leadership Cabinet § Member, Strategic Planning Committee § Member, Middle State Assessment Committee § Member, Experiential Learning Committee § Member, Academic Affairs Handbook Committee § Chair, Student Grade Appeal Committee § Member, LGBT-IQ Committee § Member, Academic Affairs Executive Leadership Team § Member, Student Affairs Executive Leadership Team § Member, Sabbatical Committee § Member, Student of Concerns Committee § Member, Student Affairs Advisory Board § Member, Professional Development Committee § Member, Division Strategic Planning Workgroup § Member, Search Committee for Vice Provost for Student Affairs Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 14 § Director, Center for Women and Men § Member, Assessment Committee § Member, Multicultural Program Fund Committee § Member, International Student Center Advisory Board § Member, Commuter and Transfer Student Life Advisory Board § Chair, Residential Staff Training and Development Class § Chair, Returning Resident Assistant, Assistant Resident Director, and Graduate Resident Director processes § Chair, RA selection process § Chair, Professional Staff hiring process SELECTED CONFERENCES, ROUNDTABLES AND PRESENTATIONS 2019 United Nations New York, New York Speaker: Roundtable Discussion on the Creative Economy and the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 2019 Higher Education Partnership Liberia, Costa Rica Presentation: Aprendizaje Sostenible (Sustainable Learning) 2019 Union County College Elizabeth, New Jersey Speaker: Roundtable Discussion on the Importance of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development 2019 Union County College Elizabeth, New Jersey Panelist: Women in Criminal Justice 2019 StudyNJ Elizabeth, New Jersey Panelist: Annual Instant Decision Day and College Fair Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 15 2018 United Nations New York, New York Roundtable Attended: The Importance of Creative Economy, Education and Independent Films as Tools for Development 2018 American Management Association New York, New York Session Attended and Participated: Effective Executive Speaking 2018 Academic Impressions Conference Orlando, Florida Sessions Attended and Participated: Setting the Stage for Retention Defining a Comprehensive Approach The Role of Admissions in the Comprehensive Plan Coaching Time Data, Programming and Goal Setting 2013-2018 The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Various Locations Sessions Attended and Participated: Championing Hispanic Higher Education Success: Securing the American Dream Title V, Farm Bill, HUD, NSF, USAID Growing the Hispanic Professorial Pool: Faculty and Leadership for the Future What Does it Mean to Serve Hispanic Students? 2017 American Management Association New York, New York Sessions Attended and Participated: How to Become and Effective Manager and Leader 2017 United Nations New York, New York Roundtable Attended: Sustainability and Creative Economies 2012-2014 Leadership Academy, Valencia College Orlando, Florida Boot Camps Attended and Participated: Human Resources Budget and Procurement Boot Camp Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 16 Institutional Research State and National Issues in Higher Education Learning Assessment Enrollment Planning, Curriculum Leadership and Development Academic Affairs 2012-2014 The Community College Conference on Legal Issues Orlando, Florida Sessions Participated and Attended: Campus Safety and Emergency Preparedness Recruitment and Hiring Practices Discrimination and Harassment Considerations of Race and Diversity Factors Student Privacy Issues Intellectual Property ADA Compliance Employee Relations 2011 American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages Annual Convention: Denver, Colorado Sessions Attended and Participated: Combining Research and National Standards for Student Success How to Articulate Levels Within a Thematic Curricular Alignment The Politics of Immersion Education Do You Have the Latest Free Technology in Your Classroom? 2011 Leading In A Tumultuous Time Featured Session, North American Council for Staff, Program, and Organizational Development 2010 Google Essentials for the Executive American Association of Community Colleges Annual Convention 2010 American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages Annual Convention Boston, Massachusetts Sessions Attended and Participated: Administrators: Gateway to District Excellence in Foreign Language Programming Lesson Planning for 21st Century Students: Things We Need to Know High School to College: Transition and Cooperation Who is “Racing to the Top”? 2009 American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages Annual Convention San Diego, California Sessions Attended and Participated: How Well Do You Know Your Students? Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 17 Critical Components of Heritage Language Programs The Power of Dialogue: Key to Leadership Development 2009 What Trustees Want: The Next Generation of Community College Presidents American Association of Community Colleges Annual Convention 2000-2014 American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages Annual Convention Sessions Attended and Participated: Integrating Technology into Instructional Practice Bringing Juvenile Literature into the Portuguese Language Curriculum The Power of Community in Teaching and Learning The Language Flagship Directors Meeting PUBLICATIONS § Sandres Rápalo, Lester R. etc. (2017) “Answering the Call: Hispanic-Serving Institutions as Leaders in the Quest for Access, Excellence, and Equity in American Higher Education” Vol 11, Issue 3 (2017) AMAE Journal Invited Special Publication http://amaejournal.utsa.edu/index.php/amae/issue/view/3 § Sandres Rápalo, Lester E. (2013). Heritage Language Dropout Program Effects on Attrition and Linguistic and Cultural Identity, Nova Southeastern University, FL. § Sandres Rápalo, Lester E. (2006). La ideologia de una pureza racial desde la perspective de Tato Laviera y Tego Calderon. The ideology of a pure race from Tato Laviera and Tego Calderon perspectives. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. TEXTBOOKS § Caldero-Figueroa, Ana & Sandres Lester. (2012). Intro to Latin America Humanities. Vol. 2. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. Dubuque, IA. § Caldero-Figueroa, Ana & Sandres Lester. (2012). Intro to Latin America Humanities. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. Dubuque, IA. MEDIA APPEARANCES § Interviewed by international Media (OPAD, Telemundo) during the visit of the first lady of Burundi at the United Nations on September 24, 2019 § Interviewed by international media (El Salvador) during the Salvadoran Independence celebration at Essex County College on September 15, 2018 § Interviewed by New York México TV during the First Hispanic Film Festival hosted at Union County College on October 1, 2018 § Guest on Tiempo television show hosted by Joe Torres on Channel ABC 7 on October 9, 2018 Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 18 § Interviewed by Telemundo during the First International Education Forum hosted at Rutgers University on October 13, 2018 § Interviewed by international media (Chile) during the First International Peace Concert hosted by Union County College on December 8, 2018 § Appeared on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) channel as a participant of ringing the Closing Bell on December 27, 2018 § Interviewed by Stylos TV (Telemundo) during a literature and poetry symposium entitled “Entre España y Argentina Literatura y Poesia” at UCC on September 7, 2019 FELLOWSHIPS § Bank of America Summer Institute – $20,000 (2013) § Chesley G. Magruder Foundation and First Union National Bank of Florida Humanities fellowships – $40,000 (2011) Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo, Page 19