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phone: (650) 736-9805
fax: (650) 723-3235
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recruit_hs@stanford.edu (for prospective graduate students)
http://admissions.stanford.edu (for prospective undergraduate students)
| Name | Title | Responsibilities | |
Lorraine Sterritt, PhD |
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Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies | Support of graduate and undergraduate teaching programs; Individually Designed Major Program; works with academic departments & programs, the offices of Development and Stewardship, the VPUE, and the VPGE; H&S graduate aid policy; graduate policy; directs the work of the GUS staff |
Ayodele Thomas, PhD |
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Assistant Dean and Data & Technology Manager for Graduate & Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs | Graduate Diversity Recruitment & Retention; named and diversity fellowships; GRO; website; data |
Joseph Brown, PhD |
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Graduate Diversity Recruitment Officer |
Graduate Diversity Recruitment; Summer Research Program |
John A. Lee, MBA, MA |
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Data and Finance Analyst | Grad Aid Procedure; Federal Work Study Program; systems; financial data; surveys; liaison to Office of University Registrar |
| Sheila Booth (650) 723-3067 dianne@stanford.edu |
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Student Services Specialist/Office Manager and Assistant to the Associate Dean | Manages GUS office; supports Associate Dean; supports Graduate and Undergraduate Student Services Administrators; contact person for graduate student problems |
Cora Espeleta |
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Administrative Associate | Supports Associate Dean, Assistant Dean, and Data and Finance Analyst; supports grad aid policy & procedure; manages surveys; provides general office support |
Sheila Booth
Student Services Specialist /Office Manager and Assistant to the Associate Dean for Graduate & Undergraduate Studies
Sheila Booth has over ten years of project and administrative management at Stanford. Before coming to the Dean’s Office, she held a position as Manager/Financial and Administrative Associate at Stanford University Medical Media Information Technology Research Lab (SUMMIT), which she assisted in government grant proposal preparations. She also worked in the Department of Functional Restoration at Stanford, supporting the Director of Orthopedic Surgery, and at the Cooperative Studies Department at the VA Medical Center as a Research Assistant/Office Coordinator. Sheila’s academic field is Psychology.
Responsibilities:
- Provides administrative, budgetary, and programmatic support
- Supports the Associate Dean
- Manages office and projects
- Organizes series of dinners on undergraduate majors
- Works with the Associate Dean as a liaison to Graduate and Undergraduate Student Services Administrators in Departments and Programs
- Works with the Assistant Dean on graduate student retention
- Serves as a contact person for graduate student problems
Joseph Brown, PhD
Graduate Diversity Recruitment Officer (50% FTE)
Joseph Brown received his BS degree in physics from Southwest Texas State University and a ScM degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University in 1990. After working for IBM as a marketing representative, he was admitted to the PhD program in psychology at Stanford University. His graduate work focused on the influence of stereotypes and prejudice on the intellectual identities and performance of minorities and women. After receiving his doctorate in 2000, he taught at the University of Washington. In January 2003 he returned to Stanford to work on graduate diversity. He also lectures in the department of Psychology.
Responsibilities:
- Graduate student diversity recruitment
- Liaison to Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (EDGE-SBE) program
- Presents workshops on GRE, graduate school preparation
- Works with departments on graduate student recruitment
- Organizes faculty participation in graduate student diversity recruitment
- Manages Undergraduate Summer Research Program
- Assists undergraduates from other institutions interested in Stanford graduate programs
- Liaison to Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education (VPUE) for undergraduates interested in graduate school admissions
Cora Espeleta
Administrative Associate, Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Cora Espeleta holds a BSE in Mathematics from St. Theresa's College in Manila, Philippines. She worked as an Executive Assistant at Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. before migrating to the United States. In Chicago, she held several administrative positions in the International and Consumer Products Divisions of Helene Curtis Industries. Before coming to the Dean's Office, she was a Program Administrator at the Graduate School of Business for almost ten years. She managed the logistics of the program and assisted in its budgetary and analytical reports.
Responsibilities:
- Provides administrative, analytical, budgetary and general project support for the Assistant Dean and the Data and Finance Analyst
- Support for Grad Aid policy and procedure
- Coordinates annual JE Wallace Sterling Award for Academic Achievement ceremony & luncheon
- Maintains GUS Website
- Provides general office and administrative support
- Supports Undergraduate Summer Research Program
- Supports Major Dinner series
John A. Lee, MBA, MA
Data and Finance Analyst
John A. Lee holds an MA in International Political Economy and Development with a concentration in International Economics from Fordham University, an MBA (with distinction) in International Business from Hawaii Pacific University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He worked for many years as an Associate Municipal Financial Analyst at the Office of the (New York) State Comptroller monitoring the annual $50 billion budget of New York City, primarily focusing on New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Medicaid issues. He also held positions as Director of Administration for the Center for American Education in Singapore, Program Advisor for the United States Education Information Center in Singapore, and as Research Analyst for regional brokerage houses in Jakarta. Before coming to the Dean's Office, he most recently held a position as a Property Specialist in the Property Management Office at Stanford. He has a diverse background of Indonesian and Japanese parents, and was raised in Tokyo and in Honolulu.
Responsibilities
- Grad Aid Procedure
- Manages Federal Work Study Program for graduate studies
- Liaison to Financial Aid and Student Financial Services
- Systems
- Finance
- Surveys
- Liaison to the office of the University Registrar
- Data
Lorraine Sterritt, PhD
Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Lecturer, Department of French and Italian
A native of Ireland, Lorraine Sterritt received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees, with First Class Honours, in French at The Queen's University of Belfast. She came to the United States in 1985. For six years she taught French and Latin and worked in administration at Chatham Hall in Virginia. She then obtained her PhD in French literature from Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton, she worked as an Assistant then Associate Dean and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in French literature at Harvard. She then worked as a Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. She came to Stanford in 2004.
She has published works on French Renaissance literature, and her particular research interest is French Renaissance imitations of Classical literature. She teaches Renaissance French Literature courses at Stanford.
Responsibilities:
- H&S Grad Aid Policy
- Graduate Policy
- Works closely with Offices of Development and Stewardship
- Works with academic departments and programs on financing curricula and in support of their curricula and their services to students
- Provides workshops for graduate and undergraduate Student Services Administrators in the Departments and Programs
- Liaison to Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) for financing of undergraduate education and delivery of programs
- Liaison to Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE)
- Manages the office of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and supervises the work of the staff
- Guides the work of the Assistant Dean and the Data and Finance Analyst
- Liaison to Senate committees that oversee education
- Committee on Graduate Studies (C-GS)
- Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy (C-USP)
- Committee for the Review of Undergraduate Majors (C-RUM)
- Advises Departments and Programs on advising in the major
Ayodele Thomas, PhD
Assistant Dean and Data and Technology Manager for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs
Ayodele Thomas received her Bachelor's of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996 and received her MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2000 and 2005 respectively, focusing on polymorphic computer architectures. After completing her doctorate, she decided to work on diversifying the graduate school pipeline and retaining the diversity represented in the current student body in addition to supporting the overall H&S graduate student population. She also teaches a seminar entitled “Graduate Environment of Support: HUMSCI 201” which assists graduate students adapting to the Stanford environment in terms of academic, psychosocial, financial, and career issues.
Responsibilities:
- Available to meet with graduate students to discuss any aspect of their graduate career
- Manages graduate diversity recruitment
- Implements workshops and programs to improve graduate student success
- Assists undergraduates from other institutions interested in Stanford graduate programs
- Teaches fall quarter Graduate Environment of Support Seminar (HUMSCI 201)
- Liaison to graduate admissions
- Works with departments and faculty on graduate student recruitment, admissions, and retention
- Presents workshops on graduate school preparation, funding
- Manages department diversity funding initiatives
- Manages Graduate & Undergraduate Studies website and other data and technology initiatives
- Serves on Provost Postdoc Committee
- Manages the Graduate Research Opportunity (GRO) Program, Humanities Dissertation Fellowships (Mellon & Whiting) and other named fellowship programs
- Student Data
