Congratulations to Assistant Professor Raquel M. Rall who was recently appointed to the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on Ethnic Participation (CEP) Executive Board. Rall will serve as the CEP Awards Chair, where she will be involved in overseeing the awards process, beginning with the announcement of the award application deadline through the presenting of the awards at the ASHE Conference. She will also oversee the Research Awards committee, which writes proposals with the approval of the ASHE Board to secure funds for small research grants for CEP scholars who are conducting research on underrepresented populations.

According to the ASHE website: “The Council on Ethnic Participation is open to all members of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). The primary focus of this council is to maintain and guide the integrity of the structural diversity of the ASHE organization. To that end we have created several initiatives to provide professional development and support for participants. This community is committed to talent development and the framing of the canon pertaining to the experience of people of color in the academy. Initially titled the Committee on Ethnic Participation, CEP began as a response to concern over the limited visibility and participation of individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups within the leadership and activities of ASHE. Ellen Earle Chaffee, ASHE President 1988-1989, created CEP to address this need with Mildred García serving as the first chair.”
 

Rall’s research is concentrated in two major areas: leadership and governance of higher education and equity. Within these two areas, she strives to identify best practices to increase access to and success in higher education for traditionally marginalized communities and to bridge research and practice. Rall intentionally illuminates this work through her teaching of courses like Black Brilliance Matters, her scholarship in research pieces like Toward Culturally Sustaining Governance, and service on committees like the UC Black Administrators Council. Prior to her appointment at UC Riverside, Rall was a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. A graduate of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, she earned her Ph.D. in urban education policy. She obtained B.A.s in human biology and African and African American studies from Stanford.