Marybeth Gasman  Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D., is Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education & a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice as well as the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers University, she held the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and as the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She is one of the leading authorities in the country on historically black colleges (HBCUs). Gasman is an historian of higher education and served as the vice president of the history and historiography section of the American Educational Research Association from 2011–2014, and as the chair of the American Association of University Professor's Committee on HBCUs. In 2006, Dr. Gasman received the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Promising Scholar/Early Career Award, and in 2008 she won the Penn Excellence in Teaching Award. She is also the recipient of the University of Pennsylvania's Provost Award for Ph.D. Mentoring and Teaching. Gasman is the author of 25 books, including "Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action" (with Thai-Huy Nguyen), published by Harvard University Press in 2019. "Making Black Scientists" was reviewed by Science in 2019. She is also the author (along with Clif Conrad) of "Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority Serving Institutions" (Harvard University Press, 2017). Gasman's 2007 book"Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund", was cited as "an invaluable contribution" to the field of higher education for African Americans and to "the general area of the history of higher education. Gasman has also published "The Essential Guide to Fundraising from Diverse College Alumni" (with Nelson Bowman), "The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American Medical School" (with Louis Sullivan), "Booker T. Washington Rediscovered" (with Michael Bieze), "A Guide to Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An All Campus Approach"(with Nelson Bowman), "Race, Gender, and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations" (with Noah D. Drezner, Edward Epstein, Tyrone Freeman, and Vida Avery), Unearthing Promise and Potential: Our Nation's Historically Black College and Universities (with Valerie Lundy Wagner, Tafaya Ransom, and Nelson Bowman), "Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow" (with Patrick J. Gilpin), and "Supporting Alma Mater: Successful Strategies for Securing Funds from Black College Alumni" (with Sibby Anderson-Thompkins).