Santa Clara University

Lucia Albino Gilbert
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Psychology
Professor of Counseling Psychology

Dr. Gilbert studies two-earner families, women's career development, and gender processes in adolescence and in educational and employment settings. She is the author of four books and numerous articles and the recipient of awards for teaching and research excellence. Currently her research focuses on disrupting active gender reproducing processes in classroom and work settings.

Before relocating to Santa Clara in fall 2006, Dr. Gilbert was Vice Provost for Undergraduate Initiatives, Professor of Educational Psychology and Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Honors Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. As Vice Provost, her work focused on cross-disciplinary, international, and diversity initiatives. These included the Campus-wide study on the Status of Women Faculty and programs to improve the climate for women in the sciences and engineering and the development of the Longhorn Scholars Program. The Longhorn Scholars Program was features in the Association of American Colleges and Universities publication, Communicating Diversity in Higher Education Diversity Digest, as an innovative and successful program (2003); received recognition in the Ford Foundation Report on diversity in higher education (2002); and received the Role Model Award from Minority Access, Inc. (2002), a non-profit organization whose mission is to assist universities to diversify their classrooms.