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JSRI Director
Rubén Martinez
rmartinez@jsri.msu.edu
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Dr. Rubén O. Martinez became Director of the Julían Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University on Sept. 1, 2007. He is a nationally known scholar with expertise in the areas of higher education, race, and ethnic relations and diversity leadership. His areas of specialization include leadership and institutional change, education and ethnic minorities, youth development, and environmental justice. He was formerly Professor of Public Administration at the University of Texas-San Antonio, where he also served as Director of the Center for Policy Studies. |
Dr. Martinez has published and lectured widely in the areas of leadership, organizational transformation, race and ethnic relations, education of ethnic minorities, and environmental justice. In 1993, he and Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., published a monograph entitled Chicanos in Higher Education. Their most recent work is a monograph titled "Diversity Leadership in Higher Education."
Dr. Martinez previously worked as a consultant on multiple community projects sponsored by — among others — the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Ford Foundation, Pfitzer Foundation, Anne E. Casey Foundation, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. He also has served on higher education accreditation teams and has visited several institutions across the country on accreditation site visits. At UTSA he implemented and coordinated the Hispanic Leadership Program in Agriculture and Natural Resources, a pioneering leadership program involving the U.S. Forest Service, the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, and Texas A&M University System.
In 1997-1998, he served as President of the Western Social Science Association. During 1994-95, he served as an American Council of Education Fellow, studying issues in higher education and serving as an administrative intern in the Office of the President at the University of Southern Colorado
Professor Martinez has held a full-time faculty appointment since 1984. He has been a senior academic administrator, department chairperson, director of two research institutes, director of a learning center, graduate coordinator of graduate programs, faculty sponsor of several student organizations, including La Despedida, Alpha Lambda Delta, MEChA, the Sociology Club, and the Alpha Kappa Delta Honors Society chapter, Zeta of Colorado. He also has served as president of faculty governance organizations, chairperson or member of several student success and advocacy committees, as a member of the University of Colorado Faculty Senate, vice-chair of the University of Colorado Faculty Council, chairperson and member of the CU and UCCS Minority Affairs Committee, member of the CU Mission 2000 and Faculty Futures Review Committee, member of the executive board of the Western Social Science Association, member of the site coordinating committee of the National Association for Chicano Studies, and member of the Race Relations Committee of the Pacific Sociological Association. In the community, he has worked with several high schools to develop multicultural learning environments, served as chairperson and member of the Colorado Springs Human Relations Commission, member of the Colorado Springs JTPA-Private Industry Council, member of the 4th Judicial District's Diversity Task Force, and member of the Colorado Judicial Advisory Council to the Chief Justice and Administrator of the Colorado Court System. Until recently, he served on the Resource Advisory Board of Kelly USA in San Antonio.
Visiting Scholar
Jean Kayitsinga Dr. Jean Kayitsinga is a sociologist demographer for JSRI and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling Educational Psychology and Special Education, Measurement and Quantitative Methods (MQM) program at MSU, where he received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1999. His areas of specialization include rural sociology, sociology of families, demography, research methods and statistical methodologies. |
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Fulltime Staff
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Anita Garza Anita Garza, one of JSRI's two fulltime employees, is JSRI's Office Manager. She coordinates the day-to-day activities of JSRI, handles all fiscal, financial, and administrative responsibilities, supervises and oversees the department's undergraduate workforce, and is the confidential administrative assistant for JSRI's director. She and her two sons live in Lansing. |
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Layne Danny Layne, an award-winning photographer and writer with more than two decades of photojournalism and publication design experience, is JSRI's Network and Publications Administrator. He joined the JSRI team in 1995 and has been instrumental in establishing the Institute's web site as well as JSRI's publications program. He holds a photography degree and a BA in Journalism from MSU. He is currently working towards a Masters Degree in Communications. Layne, a former Marine Corps Combat Correspondent, lives in Eaton Rapids. |
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Students, Specialists, and Appointees
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Patricia Gonzales Patricia (Patty) Gonzales is a Development Associate at the College of Social Science with 25% of her focus on building a foundation for development activity on behalf of JSRI. Previously, she was an Associate Research Analyst at Yale University Office of Development. In her home country, Peru, she worked for eight years as a tax attorney at two international firms. Patty obtained a LLM degree, specializing in environmental law, from the University of British Columbia, and a Law degree from the Universidad de Lima. Patty enjoys traveling, cooking and summer and winter outdoor activities. She lives with her husband in Holt. |
Ellen Hayse Ellen Hayse is a research and outreach specialist at JSRI. She has been a specialist at MSU for 10 years, serving in the capacity as an outreach coordinator, a project manager for statewide and nationwide projects, and a college research administrator. Her current work at JSRI involves grant development and proposal support, including identifying research grant opportunities and coordinating proposal submissions, developing various proposal elements, and working with MSU Contracts and Grants Administration. She also serves as the research coordinator for a statewide project involving MSU's Department of Psychology. |
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Elena Rosas Elena Rosas is originally from Celaya Guanajuato, Mexico. She is currently an undergraduate student at MSU majoring in Geography with two specializations — Latin American & Caribbean Studies and International Agriculture. Her future goal is to publish her own Hispanic Human Geography Collection based on culture, demographics, population growth, etc. When her education is complete, Rosas hopes to obtain a position at the Michigan Agriculture Department Research. |
