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Edna Breinig Chun

Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resource Services, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Edna B. Chun is an educational leader and award-winning author with over two decades of human resource and diversity leadership experience in public higher education in the California, Florida, and Ohio state systems.  She currently serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resource Services at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  She holds the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees with High Distinction from the Indiana University School of Music, the Master of Arts degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Oberlin College.

Dr. Chun’s award-winning books include Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity co-authored with Alvin Evans of Kent State University (Jossey-Bass, 2007), and Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2009).  Both books received the prestigious Kathryn G. Hansen Publication Award by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) for their contribution to the human resource profession.  Her new co-authored book entitled Diverse Administrators in Peril: The New Indentured Class in Higher Education (Paradigm Publishers, 2011) is the first in-depth examination of the work experiences of minority, female, and LGBT administrators in higher education. She is also co-author of a number of journal articles on talent management, diversity, and inclusion and is a frequent presenter on human resource strategies and diversity at national and regional conferences.

Dr. Chun was recently awarded the 2010 Excellence in Human Resources Award by the South Florida Business Journal for her work in recruitment, retention, and teambuilding as well as the 2010 Multi-cultural Achievers Award by InFOCUS Magazine.  She is a member of a number of influential national and local boards including the Editorial Board of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).

 
 



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