Daily Debriefing
Jennifer Matos, a former adviser to Latina students at Smith College and a current doctoral student who is working to complete a dissertation about the factors that affect the educational success of Latino students, began her new position as an adviser to Latino students in the OPAL office on Monday, according to Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears. Spears, the former Director of OPAL, said an internal search yielded a "tiny" pool of applicants, so the search committee was given permission to conduct a national search. Matos has worked at Clark University as the coordinator of African, Latino, Asian, Native American and GLBT Student Development and also studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Social Justice Education department. "I was really excited about OPAL's mission and work and interest in social justice, how they use the language of social justice and how their programming really supports it," Matos said.