Capital Profile: Pedro Caban - Vice Provost for Diversity and Educational Equity, State University of New York. Heads the new Office of Diversity and Educational Equity.

hat he does: Oversees educational opportunity programs. Represents SUNY in a national project to develop programs to diversify premier public universities. Oversees and develops programs to increase the numbers of faculty and graduate students from underrepresented groups. How he got there: Born in Puerto Rico; at the age of 3 came to the U.S. with his father, who worked in an electrical switches factory in Brooklyn. Educated in Brooklyn public schools. B.A. in political science at City College, Ph.D. in the same field from Columbia University. Started as an assistant professor at Fordham University in 1978, where he also directed the Puerto Rican Studies program. Went on to Rutgers University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he directed the Latino Studies program. In 2007, he came back east.”*

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