Summit 2019 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Susan Renoe
Dr. Renoe is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Extension, & Engagement, University of Missouri and PI, National Alliance for Broader Impacts (NABI) and ARIS, provided the opening keynote remarks. She walked attendees through the history of NABI and the transition to ARIS. Renoe earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in anthropology from MU, and a master’s and Ph.D. in education from the University of California-Santa Barbara.
Dr. Lina Dostilio
Dr. Dostilio is Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement at the University of Pittsburgh. She is responsible for supporting community-facing work that includes community relations, cultivating strategic opportunities to advance Pitt’s community engagement agenda, and implementing the University’s place-based community engagement initiative through the development of neighborhood-based community engagement centers.
Dostilio is the 2019 Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Research Fellows. In this role, she is developing a multi-institution research project that investigates the impact of place-based community engagement on community capacities. She was previously the Scholar in Residence directing the Campus Compact’s Project on the Community Engagement Professional, a national research project staffed by 19 research fellows across the country that has produced, The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field (Stylus Publishing, 2017) and The Community Engagement Professional Guidebook (Stylus Publishing, 2019).
Dostilio has also served as a past-chair of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and is on the editorial board of the Metropolitan Universities. Her research as a scholar-administrator has focused on multi-sector partnership development, place-based community engagement, and the evolution of the community engagement profession within higher education.
Dr. Marla A. Franco
Dr. Franco serves as the Assistant Vice Provost of Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives and the Executive Director of Assessment, Research, and Grant Development at the University of Arizona (UA). She led efforts at the UA that resulted in the university becoming recognized as a federally designated HSI in 2018 and is now working across the full scope of the university enterprise to develop a centralized vision for optimizing this designation in a way that truly benefits students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members.
Dr. Franco has provided strong leadership within the STEM community, including co-authoring a consensus report titled Transforming STEM Education at Hispanic Serving Institutions in the United States, co-chairing the first NSF HSI Program conference grant, and spearheading a national adaptive case study award to support institutional change towards greater equity in STEM. With close to 20 years of experience in higher education, she leads strategically, courageously, and with a fierce passion for what she does.
Dr. Jeffrey B. Goldberg
Dr. Goldberg serves as the Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. He is the chief academic officer of the University and oversees all academic programs and units exclusive of the health sciences. He is responsible for all affairs related to the academic mission of the University, including the faculty, academic programs, and related budgeting. As a member of the President’s senior leadership team, his role includes coordination of the strategic plan for the institution, and ensuring that the University demonstrates excellence as it pursues its missions of delivering an engaging education, innovating in research and creative discovery, and partnering for community impact, as well as its land grant obligations to the State of Arizona.
As Interim Provost, Dr. Goldberg is leading a set of important initiatives, including implementation of the strategic plan for the University of Arizona. He is also leading a campus-wide process to refine an internal budget model for the University based on performance activities and incentives, known as Responsibility Centered Management.
Dr. Goldberg has been on faculty at UA since 1985, most recently serving as dean of the College of Engineering from 2010 until his appointment as Acting Provost in 2018, and associate dean of academic affairs prior to that.
Jeff received his undergraduate education at Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Michigan. He holds a tenured appointment as professor in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, where his research focused on applying operations research models to system design problems — and he brings this systems view to bear (down) on the operational excellence of this tremendous land grant university.
Dr. Suzi Iacono
Dr. Iacono is Head of the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Since she joined NSF in 1998, she has served in many leadership roles, including Acting Assistant Director in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Deputy Assistant Director for CISE, Senior Science Advisor, Acting Division Director in Computer and Network Systems (CNS) and Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), and Program Director in IIS.
Prior to coming to NSF, she held a faculty position at Boston University School of Management, was a visiting scholar at the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a research associate at the Public Policy Research Office at the University of California, Irvine.
Over the years, she has written journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on social informatics, an area of interdisciplinary research and education that integrates aspects of computer and social sciences. Dr. Iacono received her PhD from the University of Arizona in information systems and her MA and BA from the University of California, Irvine in social ecology.