Lucia Albino Gilbert, Ph.D., is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University. She studies two-earner families, women's career development, and gender processes in education and employment settings. Before relocating to Santa Clara in fall 2006, Dr. Gilbert was Vice Provost for Undergraduate Initiatives, Professor of Educational Psychology and Frank C. Erwin, Jr., Centennial Honors Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. As Vice Provost, her work focused on cross-disciplinary, international, and diversity initiatives. These included a campus-wide study on the status of women faculty, programs to improve the climate for women in the sciences and engineering, and development of the Longhorn Scholars Program. The Longhorn Scholars Program was featured in the Association of American Colleges and Universities publication, Communicating Diversity in Higher Education Diversity Digest, as an innovative and successful program (2003). The program also received recognition in the Ford Foundation Report on diversity in higher education (2002); and it received the Role Model Award from Minority Access, Inc. (2002), a non-profit organization whose mission is to assist universities to diversify their classrooms. Phone: (408) 554-4533 E-mail: LGilbert@scu.edu
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