Contacts and Responsibilities

Owned by Jackie Snider (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Oct 11, 2022
2 min read

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 Advisors (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

  • Admissions policies and procedures training and assistance for departments

  • Communication liaison with Graduate Program Advisors (GPAs)

  • Updates to online applications and department admissions inquiries

  • Domestic and International transcripts and credentials evaluations

  • Exceptions to admissions policies and exception request procedures

  • Application fee payments and Perm number assignments

  • ETS test score reporting (GRE, TOEFL); IELTS score reporting

  • Departmental admissions decision processing

  • Five-Year combined degree (bachelor’s/master’s) programs

  • Education Abroad Program (EAP) inquiries

  • Joint Degree Programs

  • Provisional admission status clearance

 

Karen van Gool, Assistant Director, Outreach
karen.vangool@graddiv.ucsb.edu

  • Updates to applicants’ online applications and questions regarding the application process

  • UCSB UC LEADS Coordinator

  • Summer research programs coordinator

  • Prospective student outreach and recruitment

  • Decision processing

 

Carlos Nash, Director, Diversity Initiatives,
cnash@ucsb.edu 

  • Addresses and mediates diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate issues between graduate students and departments

  • Diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate programming for faculty, staff, and students, as it relates to graduate education

  • Annual department survey for diversity block grant augmentation

  • Engages with Student Affairs and Divisional Deans on graduate student DEI and climate issues

NSF-AGEP Alliance

  • Co-PI of grant

  • Includes research, reporting, and decision-making responsibilities

  • UCSB coordinator

  • Alliance (UCSB, UC Merced, CSU Channel Islands, CSU Fresno) lead coordinator

  • Self-study and Leadership team

  • Advisory board member for other NSF-AGEP program

GSA Faculty/Administrator Advisor

  • Advise GSA Executive Board on programming, policies, and graduate student issues

  • Signator of GSA expenditures

 

Michele Johnson, Assistant Director, Diversity Initiative, State-wide Director, UC LEADS

michele.johnson@graddiv.ucsb.edu 

  • Graduate Scholars Program (GSP) manager

  • GSP scholar recruitment, matching, communication and surveying

  • GSP mentor recruitment, selection, matching, training, communication and surveying

  • Annual survey and program analysis

  • Website and promotional materials

  • Supervision of Diversity and Outreach Peer

  • Tracks spending for GSP budget

Â