Associate Dean
Areas of Responsibility
- ADA Compliance
- CLAS Dean’s Scholarships
- CLAS Liaison to the SEC Consortium of Associate Deans
- CLAS Liaison to the Office of the Provost for HERS Institute
- CLAS coordinator for National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
- Recruitment initiatives
- Strategic enrollment plans, marketing, and liaising with university and community partners for faculty and staff recruitment
- Undergraduate, transfer, and graduate student recruitment pipelines
- Retention initiatives
- Resource for programming on student development, community-building, and professional development
- Assist students in CLAS in overcoming impediments to their learning to promote academic success.
- UF Aspire / SEA Change Executive Committee
Brief Biography
Bianca D. Evans is currently Associate Dean in the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is committed to increasing the access, retention, and success of higher education faculty, staff, and students. Prior positions include Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the University Graduate School at Indiana University, Director of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs in the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Auburn University, and Student Affairs Specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Additionally, she taught courses in Anatomy and Physiology at Ivy Tech Community College and Calhoun Community College.
Her research interests include access, persistence, and retention of first-generation and diverse populations in higher education, determinants and impacts of summer research programs on STEM student success, and program evaluation and assessment in higher education. She has presented over 500+ recruitment and retention sessions for students, staff, and faculty locally and nationally and helped many students get admitted to and persist to graduation in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Tuskegee University, a master’s degree in biology from Alabama A&M University, a PhD in educational psychology from Auburn University, and an MBA in management from Indiana University Kelley School of Business. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and a participant in Leadership Gainesville Class 49.