Pedro Reyes, Ph.D.

Pedro Reyes was named Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Planning and Assessment effective January 15, 2003. Pedro Reyes was Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Education Policy at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been a member of the faculty at Texas since 1991. He has a combined twenty years of teaching experience in public schools and higher education and won a major award for his graduate teaching.

 

As a social scientist, Dr. Reyes writes on the subject of the social organization of schools, particularly about the conditions fostering high academic success for children of poverty and the stratification of learning opportunities for children of color. He has raised several million dollars in research funding from The Spencer Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation, the Texas Education Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Houston Endowment, Inc., The Brown Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, among others.

 

Dr. Reyes is the author of Teachers and Their Workplace: Commitment, Performance, and Productivity, and co-author of Lessons from High Poverty High Performance Schools: Creating Learning Communities. In addition, he has authored approximately seventy-five articles, book chapters, monographs, reviews, and presented more than fifty papers at national academic conferences. His research has appeared in such journals as Educational Administration Quarterly, The High School Journal, Journal of Educational Research, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. He was Editor of the Book Review Section of Educational Researcher; Associate Editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; and, reviewer of many other scholarly journals.

 

Dr. Reyes was the 30th president of the University Council for Educational Administration, which is a national consortium of 70 major research universities in the U.S. and Canada advancing the knowledge base in educational administration. He received the prestigious National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship. He has served on numerous national committees to review the quality of university programs, such as the Ohio Board of Regents Review for Education Programs. He has advised the Ford Foundation on program evaluation for the urban partnerships program.

James D. Studer, Ph.D.

James D. Studer, Ph.D.

On July 1, 2007, James D. Studer joined The University of Texas System as Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. In this role, Dr. Studer is responsible for the planning, management and evaluation of programs, and the development of policies focused on student affairs, such as tuition, financial aid, enrollment management, developmental education, student success assessment, and campus life at the System level and in cooperation with the student affairs and academic affairs staffs on the University of Texas academic campuses.

 

Prior to coming to The University of Texas System, Dr. Studer was an administrator and faculty member at Texas State University in San Marcos Texas for over sixteen years. For fourteen years he was the Vice President for Student Affairs leading a comprehensive student affairs division on a campus of 27,000 students. As the chief student affairs officer, he was responsible for directing enrollment management efforts, student support services and student life engagement programs while addressing critical student and university issues.

 

He was also an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration for twelve years where he was the program coordinator of the College Student Affairs Master’s degree program. From August, 2005 to June, 2007, he was a full-time faculty member and for nine months in 2005, he served as Special Assistant to the President of Texas State.

 

Prior to coming to Texas State, Dr. Studer was the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Services and Director of Student Life at Michigan State University for eleven years. He was also an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Higher Education at Michigan State as well as the Associate Program Director of the MSU Health Promotion Program. Other professional positions Dr. Studer has held are Dean of Student Life at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio (1969-1980) and Assistant and Associate Dean of Students at The Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio (1965-1969).

 

Dr. Studer received the B.S. degree from The Defiance College (major-Biology), the M.A. Degree from Bowling Green State University (Counseling and Guidance) and the Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University (Higher Education Administration). He also holds certificates from the Harvard University Management Development Program and the Texas Governor's Executive Development Program in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Dr. Studer is involved in a number of state, regional, and national professional organizations. Amongst his honors are the Alumni Citation for Academic Excellence from The Defiance College, the Texas State Black Student Alliance Jerome H. Supple Leadership Award and the Texas Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators Faculty Member of the Year award in 2006.