Estela M. Bensimon
Higher education expert specializing in promotion and tenure, leadership diversity and cultural change within institutions
Director, USC Center for Urban Education
Professor of higher education, USC Rossier School of Education
Researcher, USC Center for Higher Education Policy Studies
Contact at: (213) 740-5202 or bensimon@usc.edu
Expertise:
- how large, urban institutions are transformed as their student body becomes more racially and ethnically diverse
- philosophy and pedagogy of multicultural education
- cultural leadership in higher education
- diversity in leadership and other diversity issues in higher education
- organizational and cultural change in postsecondary education
- promotion and tenure
Additional Information:
- Author of Multicultural Teaching and Learning: Strategies for Change in Higher Education (1994) and Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education (1993)
- Co-author of Working with Junior Faculty: The Role of Department Chairs (2000) and Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe (1996)
- Leader of Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Equity Task Force, which gave rise to the ASHE Institute on Equity Research Methods and Critical Policy Analysis
Foreign Languages:
Spanish