Jane Close Conoley | |
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7th President of California State University, Long Beach | |
Assumed office January 29, 2014 | |
Preceded by | F. King Alexander |
Chancellor of the University of California,Riverside | |
Interim | |
In office 2012–2013 | |
Preceded by | Timothy P. White |
Succeeded by | Kim A. Wilcox |
Personal details | |
Education | College of New Rochelle (BA) University of Texas at Austin (PhD) |
Jane Close Conoley is an American academic administrator who serves as the president of California State University,Long Beach. [1]
Conoley was awarded a New York State Regents full scholarship and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology,with minors in biology and philosophy,from the College of New Rochelle. [2] She subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. [2]
Conoley was the former interim chancellor of the University of California,Riverside following the resignation of former chancellor Tim White,who became the Chancellor of the California State University System. [3] Prior to being selected as the interim chancellor for UC Riverside,Conoley was the dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California,Santa Barbara from January 2006 to December 30,2012,a position which she publicly stated she intended to resume upon the completion of her tenure as interim chancellor of UC Riverside. [3] On January 29,2014,Conoley was announced as the new president of California State University,Long Beach. [4] In November 2024,she announced that she would be retiring from the position at the end of the 2024-25 academic year. [5]
Conoley is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. [2] She is also a member of the American Educational Research Association and the Society for the Study of School Psychology,as of 2004. [2]
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland,the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley,Davis,Irvine,Los Angeles,Merced,Riverside,San Diego,San Francisco,Santa Barbara,and Santa Cruz,along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. The system is the state's land-grant university.
The California State University is a public university system in California,and the largest public university system in the United States. It consists of 23 campuses and seven off-campus centers,which together enroll 457,992 students and employ 56,256 faculty and staff members. In California,it is one of the three public higher education systems,along with the University of California and the California Community Colleges systems. The CSU system is officially incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University,and is headquartered in Long Beach,California.
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