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Vice President for Student Affairs
Dr. Lori S. White is the Vice President for Student Affairs at Southern Methodist University.
Dr. White has spent over twenty years working in higher education at various universities including the University of Southern California, University of California at Irvine, San Diego State University, Georgetown and Stanford Universities. Prior to assuming her current position at SMU, Dr. White served as Associate Vice President for Student Affairs at University of Southern California and Dean of Students at San Diego State University and at Stanford University she held the position of Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education and Director of Undergraduate Advising.
Dr. White has also worked as 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 has also worked 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 has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Stanford School of Education and held a similar position at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.
Dr. White was born and raised in San Francisco, CA and is an avid college football and basketball fan. She knows the name of just about every Division I college mascot.
Dr. Lori S. White
E-mail: lswhite@smu.edu
Telephone: (214) 768-2821
