Western Regional Careers in Student Affairs Day
Lori S. White, Ph.D.
 Dr.
Lori S. White is currently Associate Vice-President for Student
Affairs at the University of Southern California.
Dr. White has worked in higher education for 25 years at the University
of California, and Georgetown, Stanford and San Diego State Universities.
Prior to assuming her current position at USC, she was Associate
Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at San Diego
State University. Dr. White has also worked as Associate Vice-Provost
for Undergraduate Education and Director of Undergraduate Advising
at Stanford University, the Director of Student Programs at Georgetown
University, and the Director of the Cross Cultural Center at the
University of California, Irvine. Additionally, her work in higher
education has included serving as a committee consultant to the
California State Assembly Committee on Higher Education and as a
Special Assistant to the University of California, Office of the
President. Dr. White also has experience in the K-12 policy arena
as a Special Assistant to the San Francisco Superintendent of Schools
and as a research assistant to the Pew Forum on Education Reform.
Dr. White received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and
English from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D.
in Education Policy from Stanford University. Her research focuses
on college student development and experiences. Dr. White is the
co-editor of the book, "Higher Education and School Reform,”
and has a chapter focused on black college student experiences in
a book titled "African American Culture and Heritage in Higher
Education Research and Practice" as well as a number of other
publications. Dr. White serves as an adjunct faculty member in USC’s
Rossier School of Education and she previously held adjunct faculty
positions at the Stanford School of Education and the College of
Education at San Diego State University.
Dr. White was born and raised in San Francisco, CA and is an avid
college football and basketball fan. Her claim to fame is that she
knows the name of just about every Division I college mascot.
If you have questions about the program, please
contact Peter Sirikulvadhana at
(657) 278-4314 or via e-mail psirikulvadhana@fullerton.edu
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