Rachelle Heller
Rachelle Heller
As Associate Provost for Academic Affairs of the Mount Vernon Campus, Dr Heller leads the year-long academic/residential program for incoming freshmen women. Her research and grant work are directed toward recruiting and retaining women and under-represented minorities in the STEM fields. She began with work called “Bringing Young Minority Women to the Threshold of Science’ targeting junior and senior high school students, moved to undergraduates to encourage them toward graduate school and how focused the last 10 years on FORWARD to Professorship, targeting pre-tenured women and under-represented minorities.