James T. Minor | |
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![]() Minor in 2022 | |
10thChancellor of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | |
Assumed office 2022 | |
Preceded by | Randall Pembrook |
Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education | |
In office 2014–2016 | |
President | Barak Obama |
Personal details | |
Born | Detroit,Michigan |
Occupation(s) | Sociologist Academic Administrator |
Years active | 2004–present |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Making sense of success: Leadership attributes and practices of successful university presidents (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Clifton F. Conrad |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Education and Sociology |
Institutions | |
James T. Minor is an American academic administrator and sociologist. He currently serves as the Chancellor of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He took office on March 1,2022. [1] Minor was appointed Assistant Vice Chancellor and Senior Strategist in the Office of the Chancellor at the California State University in September 2016. [2] He was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education from 2014 to 2016. [3]
Minor’s academic background is in Sociology with an emphasis in educational leadership and policy analysis. Minor was born in Detroit,Michigan and graduated from Edwin Denby High School. He began his college career at Jackson State University in Jackson,Mississippi,where he received his B.A. in Sociology,his M.A. in Sociology from University of Nebraska in Lincoln,Nebraska,and earned his Ph.D in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis with a concentration in Higher Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison. [4] After earning his Ph.D.,Minor completed a post-doctoral appointment at the Pullias Center for the Higher Education at the University of Southern California conducting research on academic governance and post-secondary performance. [5]
Minor served as an assistant professor and a tenured associate professor at Michigan State University from 2004 to 2010. He suspended his academic post to serve as the Director of Higher Education Programs at the Southern Education Foundation from 2010 to 2014.
In 2014,Minor was appointed by the Obama Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education,initially under Secretary Arne Duncan,then under Secretary John King Jr until 2016. [6]
In 2016,Minor became Assistant Vice Chancellor and Senior Strategist of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system - the largest and most diverse four-year public university system in the United States. [7] Minor was appointed to provide leadership for the system’s signature initiative Graduation Initiative 2025,aimed at dramatically improving degree completion rates for underrepresented students,facilitating faculty innovation and implementing major system-wide policy reform. [8] In 2018,the CSU reported that graduation rates reached all-time high and the lowest rate of equity gaps among minority and underrepresented students [9]
In 2021,Minor was chosen as the 10th Chancellor of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. As an innovative leader and firm believer in the transformative power of higher education,Minor has a vision to maintain a positive trajectory for the SIUE community,with a strong focus on student success. [10]
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