Dr. Marybeth Gasman Presents "Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority Serving Institutions"

Minority Serving Institutions educate 20% of American college students and include Tribal Colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Asian American & Pacific Islander Serving Institutions. Based on a large-scale, national study conducted with Dr. Clifton Conrad (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and collaboratively funded by Lumina Foundation, Kresge Foundation, and USA Funds, Dr. Gasman discusses her latest book Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority Serving Institutions (Harvard University Press, 2015).

Marybeth Gasman is a Professor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds secondary appointments in history, Africana Studies, and the School of Social Policy and Practice. She also directs the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Dr. Gasman’s areas of expertise include the history of American higher education, historically black colleges and universities, minority serving institutions, African American leadership, and fundraising and philanthropy.

Dr. Gasman received the Penn GSE Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Early Career Award in 2006. In 2010, she was awarded the Ozell Sutton Medallion for Justice by Philander Smith College. In May 2012, she received an honorary degree from Paul Quinn College and the ASHE Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mildred Garcia Senior Exemplary Scholar Award.