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 as well as the . 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. 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.
Publications
Gasman is the author of 25 books, including , published by Harvard University Press in 2019. Making Black Scientists was reviewed by in 2019. She is also the author of . Dr. Gasman's 2007 bookEnvisioning 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 , , , , , , ', and '. She is an editor of , Contemporary Issues in Higher Education], Educational Challenges and Opportunities at Minority Serving Institutions], , , , , , ', ', ', and ', .
Blogs and other media
Gasman is well known for an op-ed that she wrote for The Washington Post in 2016. The op-ed, titled "," received substantial and wide attention in higher education circles. Gasman contributes to several blogs, including Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and by . Gasman is often quoted in the media as an expert on HBCUs and Minority Serving Institutions, including the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Herald-Sun, Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, The Guardian, Time Higher Education, and The New York Times.
Education
Gasman received a B.A. in Political Science and Communication at St. Norbert College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Higher Education and Law at Indiana University. Gasman was a Penn GSE faculty member from 2003-2016. She joined the faculty at Rutgers University in Fall 2019.
Controversy
In 2019, Inside Higher Education published an article about Gasman, then Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, and anonymous allegations made against her for by former student assistants. The Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, Gasman’s former employer, did not comment on the article as the university does not comment on personnel issues, but expressed a Penn said Gasman “got an excellent offer from Rutgers and chose to take it.” On September 1, 2019, Gasman moved to Rutgers University, which, according to the university, “vetted her before appointing her as Distinguished Professor and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education” and was
