Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions

Executive Director: Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D., Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, Distinguished Professor, and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions

Website: https://cmsi.gse.rutgers.edu

Located at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education and housed within the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice, the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions' (CMSI) mission is to: elevate the educational contributions of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), ensuring their participation in national conversations; increase rigorous scholarship on MSIs; connect MSI academic and administrative leadership to leading reform initiatives in the United States; inform administrative, instructional, and philanthropic practices at MSIs; advance effective policies that have a positive impact on strengthening MSIs, the development and support of their students and faculty, and the quality of the elementary and secondary schools within their communities; bring together MSIs around their common interests, strengths, and challenges to increase efficiency and optimize resources; and enhance the efforts of MSIs to close educational achievement gaps and assessment performance of disadvantaged communities.

CMSI serves as a repository for research, data, best practices, emerging innovations, and ideas on and within MSIs. With support from our sponsors, CMSI supports MSIs, researchers, policy makers, funders, and practitioners to promote the strengths and address challenges facing these institutions, and scholars to promote the strengths and address challenges facing these institutions.

For more information, please contact Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D., Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, Distinguished Professor, and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Graduate School of Education, 10 Seminary Lane, Suite 110, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, 848-932-0774 or email marybeth.gasman@gse.rutgers.edu.