The Council of College Multicultural Leadership (CCML) is comprised of the Multicultural Directors/Deans of the eleven academic colleges and the Associate Dean of the Office of Graduate Educational Equity Programs, at University Park. These individuals are primarily responsible for leading the efforts to recruit and retain a diverse student body within the colleges and the Graduate School. They assist in advising and developing their respective strategic diversity plans.
Members of the CCML at University Park Campus
The Graduate School
- Stephanie Danette Preston, Associate Dean for Graduate Educational Equity and Chief Diversity Officer for Graduate Education
College of Agricultural Sciences
- Laura P. Leites, Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs
- Milton Newberry III, Director of Multicultural Affairs
College of Arts and Architecture
- Folayemi Wilson, Associate Dean for Access and Equity
Smeal College of Business
- Jamie Campbell, Assistant Dean of Diversity Enhancement Programs
- Olivia Lewis, Director of Diversity Enhancement Programs
Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
- Gary Abdullah, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
- Victoria Sanchez, Associate Dean of Educational Equity
- James Guyton, Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs
College of Education
- Leah Hollis, Associate Dean for Access, Equity, and Inclusion
- Brenda Martinez, Director of the Office of Education and Social Equity
College of Engineering
- Enrique D. Gomez, Interim Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion and Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Lauren Griggs, Director of Multicultural Engineering Programs, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Erin Hostetler, Director of Student Research and Graduate Equity
- Tracy R. Peterson, Director of Student Transitions and Pre-College Programs
College of Health and Human Development
- Nicole Webster, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Niharika Sharma, Interim Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Student Enrollment Services
- David de la Rosa, Assistant Director for Diversity and Inclusion
College of Information Sciences and Technology
- Jocelyn Bennett Garaway, Assistant Dean of Inclusion and Diversity Engagement
- Madhavi Kari, Assistant Director of Inclusion and Diversity Engagement
College of the Liberal Arts
- Earl F. Merritt, Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing
- Sheldon Fields, Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion and Research Professor of Nursing
Eberly College of Science
- David Simpson, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
- Aaron Mattingly, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
- Samia Cooperider, Assistant Director for Diversity and Inclusion