Contacts and Responsibilities
Walter Boggan, Director of Admissions, Outreach, and Diversity Initiatives walter.boggan@graddiv.ucsb.edu
Admissions policy and publications
Fee waiver requests and approvals
Recommendations for policy changes
Communication liaison with Graduate Program Assistants (GPAs)
Web and print materials
Prospective student outreach and recruitment
Summer research programs director
Outreach and recruitment funds requests
Mallarie Stevens, Associate Director, Admissions
mallarie.stevens@graddiv.ucsb.edu
Domestic and International transcripts and credentials training and assistance
Updates to applicants’ online applications and questions regarding the application process
Exceptions to admissions policies and exception request procedures
Application fee payments and Perm number assignments
Questions about ETS test score reporting (GRE, TOEFL)
Decision processing
Five-Year combined degree programs
Education Abroad Program (EAP) inquiries
Joint Degree Programs
Provisional admission status clearance
Briana Muñoz-Flores, Assistant Director, Outreach
bmunozflores@ucsb.edu
UCSB Coordinator, UC LEADS
ARC Summer Research Program Coordinator
Prospective student outreach and recruitment
Updates to applicants’ online applications and questions regarding the application process
Decision processing
Carlos Nash, Director, Diversity Initiatives,
cnash@ucsb.edu
Graduate Scholars Program, management of eligibility, participation and event coordination for incoming graduate students
Overall direction, development, and implementation of retention strategies that foster graduate student diversity
Administrator of AGEP Grant
Michele Johnson, Assistant Director, Diversity Initiative, State-wide Director, UC LEADS
michele.johnson@graddiv.ucsb.edu
State-wide Director, UC LEADS
Graduate Scholars Program (GSP) eligibility, participation, and event coordination for incoming diverse graduate students
Advanced graduate student and faculty mentor nominations for the GSP
Diversity Initiative Program Coordinator