Gabriela Elizabeth Vargas is the Assistant Director in the Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD). Gabriela supports individual faculty, department chairs, and deans in their work. Vargas co-facilitates programs offered by OFDD, and develops assessment tools for department climate; they also help chairs and faculty design and deliver concrete plans and programs to address areas of concern and enhance areas of strength.
Before joining Cornell, Gabriela was the Research Programs Coordinator at the Graduate College of University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She led various initiatives focused on supporting the retention of graduate students while providing pathways to graduate education for minoritized undergraduate students. Vargas also provided faculty grant proposal feedback that focused on producing educational partnerships that are student-centered.
Vargas has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies and Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.