Marybeth Gasman Explained

Marybeth Gasman is Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She was appointed as Associate Dean for Research in the Rutgers Graduate School of Education in the fall of 2021 and was elected Chair of the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Faculty Council in 2021. In addition to these roles, Gasman is the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice as well as the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

Biography

Gasman received a B.A. in Political Science and Communication at St. Norbert College (1990) and an M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (2000) in Higher Education and Law at Indiana University Bloomington. A historian of higher education, she currently holds the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and is a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, which she joined in 2019. Gasman also serves as the Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education and is the Chair of the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Faculty Council. Gasman is the Executive Director of both the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice, and the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2019 where she held the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education .

She is one of the leading authorities in the country on historically black colleges (HBCUs).[1] She is on the board of trustees of two Historically Black Colleges and Universities—Paul Quinn College in Dallas, TX and Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Gasman served as the vice president of the history and historiography section of the American Educational Research Association from 2011 to 2014, and as the chair of the American Association of University Professor's Committee on HBCUs. In 2006, Gasman received the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Promising Scholar/Early Career Award, and in 2008 she won the Penn Excellence in Teaching Award and in 2017, she was awarded the Penn Provost's Award for Excellence in Ph.D Mentoring and Advising.[2]

Gasman has appeared in two PBS documentaries. In 2022 she was in Making Black America: Through the Grapevine, written and produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 2017, she appeared in Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. and Marco Williams. In both documentaries she discussed her historical research related to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In 2022, an interview pertaining to her book Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring was featured on BookTV.

On August 27, 2019, Inside Higher Education published an article about Gasman, and anonymous allegations made against her for "fostering a hypersexualized and racially insensitive climate" by former student assistants in 2017. An investigation did not produce public results, though "cultural" changes were allegedly made by the university. The Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania did not comment on the article as the university does not comment on personnel issues.[3] The University of Pennsylvania Provost said Gasman "got an excellent offer from Rutgers and chose to take it." On September 1, 2019, Gasman moved to Rutgers University, which, according to the university, "vetted her before appointing her as Distinguished Professor and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education".[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Who is Marybeth Gasman? . Diverse Issues in Higher Education . 2010-07-21 . 2011-01-24.
  2. Web site: Marybeth Gasman . Penn GSE . 2011-01-24.
  3. Web site: Rutgers defends Penn scholar accused of fostering a 'hypersexualized and racially insensitive climate'.
  4. Web site: Marybeth Gasman required students at her research center to sign blanket nondisclosure agreements, which experts say is unheard-of in academe.
  5. Web site: Data and success stories reveal how to ensure that African American students thrive in the STEM classroom Books, Et Al. . blogs.sciencemag.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190830122636/https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/08/27/making-black-scientists/ . 2019-08-30.
  6. Review of Envisioning Black Colleges . The Review of Higher Education, Volume 31, Number 4 . 2008 . 10.1353/rhe.0.0001 . 143593724 . 2011-01-24.