Welcome by President Junn

Dr. Ellen Junn

President

Stanislaus State

President Junn is widely published and has written numerous peer-reviewed research and journal articles on various topics, such as supporting the success of underserved students, the importance of university-community engagement and strategies for supporting non-tenure-track faculty -- especially women and minorities – as well as promoting the use of innovative experiential learning teaching strategies.

Countless students have attained baccalaureate and graduate degrees through her commitment to advocating pathways for the underserved. She has been recognized as an exemplary leader and fierce promoter for the California State University's diverse community of students, faculty and staff.

Among her numerous community leadership roles, Junn serves on the board of directors for the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, a Governor-appointed board charged with collaboratively partnering with a wide variety of key Central Valley constituencies to initiate, recommend and advocate for a prosperous economy, quality environment and social equity throughout the Valley. She also serves as the President of the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium and is a member of the Stanislaus Community Foundation’s Cradle to Career Leadership Team, ITHAKA Higher Education Insights, California Association for the Education of Young Children and the Association for Psychological Science.

President Junn earned a bachelor’s degree in experimental and cognitive psychology from the University of Michigan, from which she graduated cum laude and received high honors in psychology. She obtained both a master’s and Ph.D. in cognitive and developmental psychology from Princeton University. In addition, she holds a Management Development Program Certificate from Harvard University and a CSU-Knight Collaborative Program Certificate from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Institute for Research in Higher Education.

She is the first Korean-American woman president appointed in the U.S. to a four-year public institution. Her husband, Allan Greenberg is a retired physics professor and her son, AJ Murphy completed his doctorate in American History from Columbia University, and his wife Emilie Conolly is completing her doctorate in American History from New York University.