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Candidate is a senior adviser at UC Davis

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Cristina González, a candidate for UH provost, will participate in an open forum today to discuss her academic experience and vision as well as field questions from students, faculty and staff.

González, senior adviser to the chancellor and former dean of graduate studies at the University of California, Davis, is the second of five provost candidates to visit UH.

At UC Davis, González chairs a work-life balance committee for faculty and sits on several administrative councils. She is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education at the University of Washington, which promotes local, national and international graduate research.

González was dean of graduate studies at UC Davis from 1997 to 2002 and chaired the University of California System's Council of Graduate Deans, which she represented to various statewide graduate education associations.

Prior to her work at UC Davis, González was chairwoman of the Department of Spanish and Portugese at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and directed the graduate Spanish program at Purdue University. Hispanic Business magazine honored her in 2002 as one of its "80 Elite Hispanic Women."

González did her undergraduate work in Romance philology at the University of Oviedo, Spain, and earned her master's and doctorate in Spanish at Indiana University. Her expertise includes women in academic leadership, early female Hispanic writers and Spanish in academia.

She was recently among the candidates for provost at the University of Iowa and remains one of four finalists for vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

González's hour-long forum, open to everyone in the UH System, will begin at 4 p.m. in the University Hilton's Waldorf Room. The remaining three candidates will speak in similar forums over the next two weeks
 

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