Juan Sanchez Munoz -Dr. Muñoz is the Senior Vice President for Institutional Diversity Equity, and Community Engagement and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education & Student Affairs at Texas Tech University. Dr. Muñoz serves on the Association of Public and Land Grant University's (APLU) Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence, is a member of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education Board of Directors, and has been an appointed member of the Planning Committee for the National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Dr. Muñoz also has an appointment in the College of Education as an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. He has served as Coordinator for the Bilingual Education and Diversity Studies program, Chair of the Graduate Academic Affairs Committee, and was a founding member and Director of the College of Education, Center for Research on Leadership and Education. Dr. Muñoz earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After returning from military service in the U.S. Marine Corps during the 1990-91 Gulf Crisis, he attended California State University, Los Angeles, where he earned an M.A. degree in Mexican-American Studies with an emphasis in literature and literary theory. He earned his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied Curriculum & Instruction in the Division of Urban Schooling.