Marybeth Gasman

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, a Distinguished Professor, and the Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, Marybeth was the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Endowed Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author or editor of 36 books, including Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022), HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015 with Clif Conrad), Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019 with Thai-Huy Nguyen), and Why Historically Black Colleges Matter: 25 Years of Research for Justice (Teachers College Press, 2025). Marybeth has written over 300 peer-reviewed articles, scholarly essays, and book chapters. She has penned over 850 opinion articles for the nation’s newspapers and magazines and is ranked by Education Week as one of the 20 most influential education scholars in the nation. Marybeth has raised over $26 million in grant funding to support her research and that of her students, mentees, and MSI partners. She has served on the board of trustees of The College Board as well as historically Black colleges – Paul Quinn College, Morris Brown College, and St. Augustine College. She considers her proudest accomplishment to be receiving the University of Pennsylvania’s Provost Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring, serving as the dissertation chair for over 85 doctoral students since 2000. Marybeth is an avid photographer, loves to write, and believes balance and harmony are essential to achieving life goals.

• Expertise & Research Interest

  Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Minority Serving Institutions; leadership, philanthropy, history of higher education, systemic racism in faculty hiring

• Recent & Selected Publications

  Marybeth Gasman, Leslie Ekpe, Andrés Castro Samayoa, & Alice Ginsberg, “Effective Mentoring Toward the Minority Serving Institution Presidency, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership (September 2025).

  Marybeth Gasman, “The Impact of Brown v. Board on Higher Education Access, HBCUs, and the Work that Remains to Ensure Equitable Access,” Special Issue of Urban Education, (online first, 2025).

  Marybeth Gasman, Andrés Castro Samayoa, & Andrew Martinez, “Complicating Student Identities at Hispanic Serving Institutions: Lessons for Emerging HSIs,” Border-Lines, (online first, 2024).

  Marybeth Gasman, Andrés Castro Samayoa, Kemuel Benyehudah, & Anthony Fowlkes, “Hispanic Serving Institutions and Philanthropic Support: A Retrospective Overviews, 2006-2018,” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (online first, 2022).

  Alice Ginsberg, Marybeth Gasman, & Andrés Castro Samayoa, “A Place of Hope and Healing: Culturally Relevant Teacher Education at a Tribal College,” Journal of Education (online first, 2021).

  Alice Ginsberg, Marybeth Gasman, & Andrés Castro Samayoa, “When Things Get Messy”: New Models for Clinically Rich and Culturally Responsive Teacher Education: A Case Study of BLOCKS at New Mexico State University,” Teachers College Record, (online first, 2021).

  Thai-Huy Nguyen, Marybeth Gasman, Amanda Washington Lockett, & Vanessa Pena, “Supporting Black Women’s Pursuits in STEM,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching (online first, 2021).

  William Casey Boland, Marybeth Gasman, Andrés Castro Samayoa, and DeShaun Bennett, “The Effect of Enrolling in Minority Serving Institutions on Earnings Compared to Non-Minority Serving Institutions: A College Scorecard Analysis,” Research in Higher Education 62(2), (2021), 121-150.

  Marybeth Gasman & Thai-Huy Nguyen, “Empowering Success: Messages and examples of inherent inclusivity at historically Black colleges and universities set them apart from other institutions,” American Scientist, 108, (2020), 286-291.

  Thai-Huy Nguyen, William Casey Boland, & Marybeth Gasman, “HBCUs, STEM Education, and the Pursuit for Legitimacy,” British Journal of Sociology of Education, (40(8), (2019), 1055-1071.

  William Casey Boland, Marybeth Gasman, Thai-Huy Nguyen, & Andrés Castro Samayoa, “Master Plan and the Future of California Higher Education: Assessing the Impact of State Policy on Minority Serving Institutions,” American Educational Research Journal, 55(6), (2018), 1369-1399.

  Marybeth Gasman, Thai-Huy Nguyen, Clif Conrad, Todd Lundberg, & Felecia Commodore, “Morehouse College: Promoting Black Male Success in STEM,” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education vol. 10, no. 2 (2016): 181-200.

  Marybeth Gasman, Dorsey Spencer & Cecelia Orphan, “Building Bridges, Not Fences: A History of Civic Engagement at Private Black Colleges and Universities,” History of Education Quarterly 55, no. 3, (2015): 346-379.

  Marybeth Gasman, “Perceptions of Black College Presidents: Sorting through Stereotypes and Reality to Gain a Complex Picture,” American Educational Research Journal 48, no. 4 (2011): 836-870.

  Marybeth Gasman, “Swept Under the Rug: A Historiography of Gender and Black Colleges.” American Educational Research Journal, (Winter, 2007), vol. 44, no. 3, 760-805.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
• Program Pages

  Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions – https://cmsi.gse.rutgers.edu

  Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice – https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu

• Honors & Awards

  Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship, American Education Research Association, Multicultural SIG, 2018

  White House Contributions to Latino Higher Education, Bright Spots Award, 2015

  University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring, 2015

  Association for the Study of Higher Education Leadership Award, 2014

  American Education Research Association, Fellow, 2013

  Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary Scholarship, 2012

  Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Promising Scholar/Early Career Award, 2006