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Meet Provost Gonzales

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As 十大博彩推荐排名州立 大学’s Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Junius J. 冈萨雷斯,M.D., M.B.A., is designated  the second highest ranking university official and leads  the university’s academic programs for teaching, 研究, scholarship and creative inquiry and service in ten schools and colleges, and is responsible for academic planning, new initiatives in teaching and learning, faculty and academic staff development, 还有图书馆.  He also oversees institutional assessment and accreditation, 研究处, and student success efforts through 大学 College, academic student services (e.g., tutoring), and special student programs such as Upward Bound and EOF.  He served as New York Institute of Technology’s provost and vice president for Academic Affairs from 2018-2022.  Dr. Gonzales is an avid champion of student success and an enthusiastic leader and supporter of innovative recent programs that can reduce equity gaps for student achievement. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. Most recent examples include NYC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 2021 Educational Excellence Award, One of the NY State’s Responsible 100, Diversity in Business Award, Nassau County’s Hispanic Education Advocate of the Year, and the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Award for Academic Excellence. He is also currently on the board of directors for the national Association of Chief Academic Officers.

Gonzales has held high-level leadership roles in academia, 联邦政府, 私人的 sector. He served as chief academic officer and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at the 17-campus 大学 of North Carolina System from January 2015 through May 2018 and was interim president of the system from January to March 2016. As the UNC System’s top academic officer, he was responsible for overseeing academic planning and budgeting, 学生事务, sponsored programs and 研究, 老师的支持, licensure and institutional 研究, and community engagement. 四年来, he served as provost and vice president of academic affairs at the 大学 of Texas at El Paso (在艾尔伯索)—one of the nation’s most recognized Hispanic Serving Institutions (now R1)— and led the institution to receive several national awards. He was the founding dean of the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences and executive director of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the 大学 of South Florida (普遍服务基金). 在那之前, his deep and broad experiences were cultivated in different settings: academia (Georgetown 大学, 普遍服务基金, 在艾尔伯索), the 联邦政府 (National Institutes of Health), 私人的, 营利性部门.

Gonzales has performed national service with recent appointments on the Executive Committee of the Council on Academic Affairs for APLU, Harvard’s COACHE National Advisory Committee, a National Academies STEM Work Group, and on federal agency advisory councils (e.g., samhsa, ahrq). He has also received significant 研究 funding over $15 million as PI or co-PI from federal agencies (e.g., NIH, CDC, AHRQ, DoEd) and private funders (e.g., Paso Del Norte Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation).  He has published in the areas of health disparities, 心理健康, 研究 infrastructure, community partnered participatory 研究, and non-cognitive factors in undergraduate students.  他的成绩是A.B. from Brown 大学, an M.D. with honors from the 大学 of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. with honors from the 大学 of Maryland. A psychiatrist by training, he completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health.