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Junius J. Gonzales is the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Montclair State University (https://www.montclair.edu/newscenter/2021/12/15/montclair-state-university-announces-new-provost/) and is a former interim president and chief academic officer of the University of North Carolina system. From 2018-2022 he was the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at New York Institute of Technology New York Institute of Technology—ranked in the top 2% of US colleges for providing the best ROI for low income students (https://theislandnow.com/community-news/report-new-york-tech-outcompetes-all-l-i-universities-for-roi-among-low-income-students/). In December 2021, he was honored with the New York City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Award for Educational Excellence, and in December 2020, Gonzales was honored as one of NY State's Responsible 100—an award given 'to an elite group of NY’s 100 most powerful executives, thought leaders, visionaries and influencers, who are setting new standards of excellence, dedication and leadership in improving their communities and making transformative change' (https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/power-list/influentials/2020-responsible-100.html). He is a Board member for the national Association of Chief Academic Officers (https://www.acao.org/board-of-directors-page), and a former member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's Workgroup on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education. For the November 2020 and 2021 annual meetings of the Council of Independent Colleges, he was an invited panelist for the closing plenaries 'CAOs Respond: Our Academic Futures' and 'Free College Future". In 2019, Gonzales was an invited panelist for the Atlantic's Future of Work conference (https://www.theatlantic.com/live/future-work-2019/).

For the UNC System, he was the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (Chief Academic Officer) from January 2015-May 2018. While there he was selected as an ACAO Digital Fellowship, funded by the Gates Foundation. In addition to academic affairs, he oversaw research, community engagement student affairs, data and analytics, UNC TV, UNC Press, post-secondary licensure for the state, and partnerships with the K-12 sector. Some of his numerous accomplishments there include legislative funding for partway home students, a system wide degree completion improvement plan, a successful and productive system wide faculty fellowship program, a system-wide effort on math pathways, competency based education, and work on non-cognitive factors and student success in minority-serving institutions. [1]

Prior to his time at the UNC system, Gonzales served as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas at El Paso from 2011-2015. There he led the institution to garner several national awards (IHEP Champion of Access and Success (the only four year awardee) and Starfish 360 Student Success Award) and several grants including from a $2.3 million grant from the Department of Education for First Year Retention and Success Transition. He also led the team for a large online initiative UTEPConnect. Before UTEP, he was the founding dean of the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida, where he was initially appointed as Dean of the de la Parte Florida Mental Health Research Institute. Gonzales had served as a principal and scientist at Abt Associates and as Director of the Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health as well as the Chief of the Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology Branch. He has been the recipient as principal or co-investigator on over $15 million in external research and services funding from the federal government (NIH, CDC, DOE) and foundations; and, has over 3,500 citations for published work, particularly on health disparities issues, including as a key member of a team on race and ethnicity in primary care decision making with pioneering papers. [2] [3] His work has continued with recent work on his funded research on Latinos with depression and chronic diseases with methods innovations and community partnered participatory work. [4] [5]

He has served on federal agency national advisory councils (AHRQ, SAMHSA), on the executive committee for the Council on Academic Affairs for the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, and been a board member for numerous non-profit organizations (United Way, El Futuro, Signature Theatre, Tampa Museum of Art, Neighbors Consejo) as well as a reviewer for grant proposals for NIH, VA, AHRQ, NSF. He currently serves as a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's group on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education and has been a reviewer the last two years for the National Science Foundation.

As a first generation college student and son of poor immigrants, he holds equality of opportunity and outcomes as a core value especially in the domain of education and the need for and power of an equity mindset. Gonzales received the New York City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Educational Excellence Award in December 2021. He also received the Academic Excellence Award from the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce [6] and the Diversity in Business Award from Long Island Business News. [7] In October 2019 he received the Town of Oyster Bay Citation for Community Impact and was named Nassau County's Hispanic Education Advocate of the year. [8]

In December 2019 Gonzales was a panelist for the Atlantic's Future of Work Conference (http://futureofwork.theatlantic.com/). He has served on many nonprofit boards including Neighbors Consejo, El Futuro, United Way (El Paso), Tampa Museum of Art, Signature Theatre, and others. [9] [10] [11] [12] He has an A.B. degree from Brown University, his M.D. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.B.A. with honors from the University of Maryland. [13] He completed his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health.

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  1. ↑ Akos, Patrick; Greene, Jeffrey A.; Fotheringham, Eric; Raynor, Samantha; Gonzales, Junius; Godwin, Jeremy (20 June 2020). "The Promise of Noncognitive Factors for Underrepresented College Students". Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice: 152102512093511. doi:10.1177/1521025120935111.
  2. ↑ Cooper-Patrick, Lisa (11 August 1999). "Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship". JAMA. 282 (6): 583–9. doi: 10.1001/jama.282.6.583 . PMID   10450723.
  3. ↑ Cooper, Lisa A.; Gonzales, Junius J.; Gallo, Joseph J.; Rost, Kathryn M.; Meredith, Lisa S.; Rubenstein, Lisa V.; Wang, Nae-Yuh; Ford, Daniel E. (April 2003). "The Acceptability of Treatment for Depression Among African-American, Hispanic, and White Primary Care Patients". Medical Care. 41 (4): 479–489. doi:10.1097/01.MLR.0000053228.58042.E4. PMID   12665712. S2CID   27934965.
  4. ↑ Corvin, Jaime A.; Chan, Isabella; Aguado Loi, Claudia X.; Dollman, Ian; Gonzales, Junius (7 January 2020). "Analytic hierarchy process: An innovative technique for culturally tailoring evidence‐based interventions to reduce health disparities". Health Expectations: hex.13022. doi: 10.1111/hex.13022 . ISSN   1369-6513. PMC   8137498 . PMID   31908082.
  5. ↑ Aguado Loi, Claudia X.; Alfonso, Moya L.; Chan, Isabella; Anderson, Kelsey; Tyson, Dinorah (Dina) Martinez; Gonzales, Junius; Corvin, Jaime (August 2017). "Application of mixed-methods design in community-engaged research: Lessons learned from an evidence-based intervention for Latinos with chronic illness and minor depression". Evaluation and Program Planning. 63: 29–38. doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2016.12.010. PMID   28343021.
  6. ↑ “NYIT Provost Receives Diversity in Business Award from LIBN”. New York Institute of Technology.
  7. ↑ “Hispanic Chamber of Commerce honors NYIT Provost Junius Gonzales”. The Island Now.
  8. ↑ Sullivan, Libby (October 17, 2019). "News Byte: Junius Gonzales Honored During National Hispanic Heritage Month".
  9. ↑ "UNC System Official to Serve as Interim President - UNC General Alumni Association". alumni.unc.edu.
  10. ↑ "Junius J. Gonzales to Serve as Interim President of the University of North Carolina - SHEEO". www.sheeo.org.
  11. ↑ Staff Report. "Former UNC President steps down, interim steps up".
  12. ↑ "Junius J. Gonzales - Bio - NYIT". www.nyit.edu.
  13. ↑ "Junius J. Gonzales, M.D., M.B.A. - Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Search - UTSA - University of Texas at San Antonio". www.utsa.edu.
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