Staff

Dr. Yolanda T. Moses

Associate Vice Chancellor, Diversity, Excellence and Equity &
Vice Provost for Conflict Resolution

(951) 827-6224

yolanda.moses@ucr.edu

Dr. Yolanda T. Moses is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Excellence and Equity and the Vice Provost for Conflict Resolution at the University of California, Riverside.  From 2000-2003 she was President of the American Association for Higher Education, a Washington, D.C. based higher education membership association composed of faculty, administrators, and graduate students.   AAHE has distinguished itself over the years in the areas of assessment, teaching and learning, scholarship broadly defined, faculty roles and rewards, service-learning, and, more recently, the scholarship of engagement and cultural diversity.  In her role as President, Dr. Moses has committed herself to making sure that AAHE maintains its leadership role as a catalyst for American higher education transformation.

Prior to her position at AAHE, Dr. Moses served as President of The City College of New York from 1993 to 1999. A nationally recognized cultural anthropologist, Dr. Moses dedicated herself to ensuring CCNY's place as one of America's premiere urban public institutions. To this end she instituted ongoing program reviews of all academic departments by outside experts, introduced a College-wide planning process to chart the College's future, developed a strategic fund-raising plan, and raised admission standards.

Dr. Moses came to CCNY from California State University - Dominguez Hills, where she was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Anthropology, a position she had held since 1988. From 1982 to 1988 she was Dean of the College of the Arts and Professor of Social Science (Anthropology) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

In 1995 Dr. Moses was elected President of the American Anthropological Association, the world’s largest association of anthropologists, with over 11,000 members. She was the first African-American President in the AAA’s 93-year history. Active in the AAA for over 20 years, she has also served as President of the Council on Anthropology and Education, on the Executive Committee of the General Anthropology Division, and on the Board of the Association of Black Anthropologists, and is a member of numerous AAA committees.

She has served in editorial capacities for The American Anthropologist, The American Ethnologist, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and The Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

Dr. Moses has many years of experience in higher education administration, faculty development, and curriculum reform. She is affiliated with numerous national and international associations concerned with higher education and community and regional development. She chaired the American Council on Education Commission on the Status of Women, and the United Negro College Fund National Advisory Board for Service Learning, and has been a member of many boards and service organizations in New York City, including the Commission on School Facilities and Maintenance Reform, New Visions for Public Schools, The New York YMCA, and The National Book Foundation.

Dr. Moses is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation. She is also a member of The Women's Forum, Inc., an organization of leading women in the professions, the arts, and business in New York. In 1997 she was named by Crain's New York Business as a Top Minority Executive.

Dr. Moses is the author of numerous articles, monographs, and papers on issues related to cultural change in the United States and in the Caribbean, cultural change in higher education, and cultural diversity and public policy issues. She was a consultant and researcher for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), which resulted in her ground-breaking monograph Black Women in Academe, and she was a member of the Association's national panel on liberal learning in the major that resulted in two significant publications. She served on the Executive Board of the AAC&U and was President of the Board.
Under Dr. Moses' leadership, CCNY played a leading role in launching a national higher education diversity initiative, in cooperation with the AAC&U, entitled "Racial Legacies and Learning: An American Dialogue." The project brought together a coalition of leaders from education, business, politics, the religious community, and grassroots organizations to discuss building "One America" in support of President Clinton's Initiative on Race.

A nationally recognized expert on cultural diversity, she was selected by the Ford Foundation as one of four consultants in the country to evaluate its diversity projects in universities and colleges across the nation. Her writing, research, and lecturing in this area have taken her to New Zealand, Japan, India, Western Europe, and South Africa.

Dr. Moses was a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The City College as well as a member of the CUNY Graduate School and University Center's doctoral faculty in Anthropology. She has done anthropological fieldwork in the United States (Alaska), the British West Indies, and in East Africa.

A native of Los Angeles, California, Dr. Moses is a product of public higher education of that state. She received her A.A. degree from San Bernardino Valley College in 1966, and is a member of its Alumni Hall of Fame. She received her bachelor's degree in Sociology with highest honors from California State College, San Bernardino, in 1968. She earned both her master's and doctorate with highest honors in Anthropology from the University of California at Riverside in 1976, and recently received the University's Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Dr. Moses was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from Bloomfield College of New Jersey at its 125th Commencement Exercises on May 21, 1998. She was cited for her commitment to CCNY's historic mission of access to excellence in higher education, and for "making City College an international model for enhancing human potential."