Speakers
Dr. Jose E. Hernandez serves as Associate Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX Coordinator for the University of South Florida System. He is responsible for navigating diversity and inclusion strategies for the USF system which includes USF Tampa, USF St. Petersburg and USF Sarasota/Manatee. Dr. Hernandez also teaches multicultural counseling in the College of Education. From 2008 through 2013 he served as Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has completed 28 years of work in higher education including Director of Diversity and Inclusion for USF from 2000 to 2008, and faculty member at Bethune-Cookman University from 1987 through 2000. He earned the doctorate in education at the University of Central Florida; the master's degree in counseling and the bachelor's degree in psychology both from Florida State University. He completed his first year of college at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Dr. Hernandez has been a Florida licensed mental health counselor since 1985 and worked in mental health for 8 years prior to becoming university faculty. He has been recognized for his leadership in education and particularly in diversity receiving the Hispanic Pathways Leadership Award in 2007 among others.