Marybeth Gasman

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. Gasman was a Penn GSE faculty member from 2003-2019.[1] She joined the faculty at Rutgers University in Fall 2019.

Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers University, she held the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and as the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She is one of the leading authorities in the country on historically black colleges (HBCUs).[2] Gasman is an historian of higher education and served as the vice president of the history and historiography section of the American Educational Research Association from 2011–2014, and as the chair of the American Association of University Professor's Committee on HBCUs.[2] In 2006, Dr. 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.[1]

In 2019, Inside Higher Education published an article about Gasman, then Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, and anonymous allegations made against her for “fostering a hypersexualized and racially insensitive climate” by former student assistants.[3] A subsequent investigation did not produce public results, though "cultural" changes were announced by the university.[4] The Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, Gasman’s former employer, did not comment on the article as the university does not comment on personnel issues.[5] Penn 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]

Publications

Books
  • Doing the Right Thing: How to Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring, Princeton University Press, 2022)
  • Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action (with Thai-Huy Nguyen, Harvard University Press, 2019)[6] *Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority Serving Institutions (with Clif Conrad), Harvard University Press, 2017). *Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund (2007), cited as "an invaluable contribution" to the field of higher education for African Americans and to "the general area of the history of higher education.[7] *The Essential Guide to Fundraising from Diverse College Alumni (with Nelson Bowman) *The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American Medical School (with Louis Sullivan) *Booker T. Washington Rediscovered (with Michael Bieze) *A Guide to Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An All Campus Approach (with Nelson Bowman) *Race, Gender, and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (with Noah D. Drezner, Edward Epstein, Tyrone Freeman, and Vida Avery) *Unearthing Promise and Potential: Our Nation's Historically Black College and Universities (with Valerie Lundy Wagner, Tafaya Ransom, and Nelson Bowman) *Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow (with Patrick J. Gilpin) *Supporting Alma Mater: Successful Strategies for Securing Funds from Black College Alumni (with Sibby Anderson-Thompkins) ===Edited collections=== *A Primer on Minority Serving Institutions (with Andrés Castro Samayoa) *Contemporary Issues in Higher Education (with Andrés Castro Samayoa) *Educational Challenges and Opportunities at Minority Serving Institutions] (with Andrés Castro Samayoa, William Casey Poland, and Paola Esmieu)
  • Academics Going Public
  • Opportunities and Challenges at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (with Felecia Commodore)
  • Exploring Diversity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Implications for Policy and Practice (with Robert Palmer and Robert Shorette)
  • Fostering Success of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in STEM: The Role of Minority Serving Institutions (with Robert Palmer and Dina Maramba)
  • The History of Higher Education: Methods for Uncovering the Past
  • Gender and Educational Philanthropy: New Perspectives on Funding, Collaboration, and Assessment (with Alice Ginsberg)
  • ''Understanding Minority Serving Institutions (with Benjamin Baez and Caroline Turner)
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Triumphs, Troubles, and Taboos (with Christopher Tudico)
  • Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Volunteerism in Higher Education (with Andrea Walton)
  • Uplifting a People: African American Philanthropy and Education (with Kate Sedgwick)

References
  1. "Marybeth Gasman". Penn GSE. Retrieved 2011-01-24.
  2. "Who is Marybeth Gasman?". Diverse Issues in Higher Education. 2010-07-21. Retrieved 2011-01-24.
  3. "Star scholar of minority-serving institutions was accused of fostering a hypersexualized and racially insensitive climate in her research center".
  4. "Marybeth Gasman required students at her research center to sign blanket nondisclosure agreements, which experts say is unheard-of in academe".
  5. "Rutgers defends Penn scholar accused of fostering a 'hypersexualized and racially insensitive climate'".
  6. "Data and success stories reveal how to ensure that African American students thrive in the STEM classroom | Books, Et Al". blogs.sciencemag.org. Archived from the original on 2019-08-30.
  7. "Review of Envisioning Black Colleges". The Review of Higher Education, Volume 31, Number 4. 2008. doi:10.1353/rhe.0.0001. S2CID 143593724. Retrieved 2011-01-24. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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