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FACULTY Our faculty members are researchers and educators with extensive experience and various research interests.
Dr. Benjamin Baez
Benjamin Baez
is associate professor of higher education in the Department of
educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida International
University. He received his law degree in 1988 and his doctorate in higher education in 1997, both from Syracuse University. Baez’s recent
books include Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions
(co-edited with Marybeth Gasman and Caroline Turner, forthcoming, SUNY
Press) and The Politics of Inquiry: Education Research and the
“Culture of Science” (with Deron Boyles, forthcoming, SUNY Press).
Contact Information: Dr. Mohammed Farouk
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Contact Information: Dr. Roger Geertz Gonzalez is assistant professor in the higher education program at FIU. He does research on comparative and international higher education issues such as comparing indigenous and minority college student access around the world; the historical development of college rankings in the US and Europe and its institutional policy effects on indigenous and minority college students; the development of governmental, indigenous higher education policies in Australia, Canada and New Zealand; U.S. immigration policy and the role of urban higher education institutions in assimilation/socialization of college students in the US (Cuban Americans) and Germany (Turkish Germans); and the effects of globalization policies on indigenous and minority college students in North America and Latin America.
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Lynn Ilon is Associate Professor in FIU's International/Intercultural Studies in Education program. Dr. Ilon also founded FIU's Intercultural Institute for Educational Initiatives and directed it through its founding two years. She is an educational economist specializing in educational policy and planning issues arising from the globalization of the world's economies. Her recent work on the topic includes numerous papers as well as invited lectures in several countries. She holds degrees in International Development Education (Ph.D), Economics (M.S.), Educational Research and Statistics (M.S.) and Education and Anthropology (B.A.). Dr. Ilon has lectured and consulted for the World Bank, Harvard Institute for International Development, the United Nations, Educational Testing Service, the U.S. Agency for International Development, Department for International Development (UK), the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, UNESCO, several national governments and their agencies and several local and global NGOs. Dr. Ilon has lived and worked throughout the world including two years in Zambia, three years in Micronesia, two years in Zimbabwe and a year in Jordan. In addition, she has worked or consulted in several other countries including Jamaica, the former Soviet Union, Egypt, Kuwait, South Korea, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malawi, Zambia, Eritrea, Tunisia, Uganda and South Africa. Her reports, scholarly work and invited lectures have dealt with several other countries. Dr. Ilon specializes in issues around a global knowledge economy - especially as it applies to the value of learning among and between culturally different groups.
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