Jane Close Conoley is the president of California State University, Long Beach. She is the former interim Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside; she took on the chancellorial duties on December 31, 2012 following the resignation of former Chancellor Tim White. Prior to being selected as the Interim Chancellor for UC Riverside, Dr. Conoley was the Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara from January 2006 to December 30, 2012, a position which she publicly stated she intended to resume upon the completion of her tenure as interim Chancellor of UC Riverside. On January 29, 2014, it was announced Conoley would be the new president of California State University, Long Beach.
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Biography
Conoley received her B.A. in Psychology with minors in biology and philosophy from The College of New Rochelle. She graduated cum laude as well as with departmental honors and was awarded a full college and New York State Regents scholarship. During her undergraduate years, she was elected to National Honor Society. She received her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Educational Psychology.
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Academic positions
- Dean and Professor of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology: Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, January, 2006 - present.
- Dean and Professor of Educational Psychology: College of Education and Human Development. Texas A&M University, August 1996 - December 2005
- Edith S. Greer Professor of Educational Psychology. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1996
- Associate Dean for Research and Curriculum, Teachers College. University of Nebraska- Lincoln, 1994 -1996. Chair Curriculum, Equity, and Appeals Committees; develop faculty research and grants programs; supervise College wide evaluation.
- Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology. University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1989 - 1994 (Associate Professor, 1984-1989). Member of interdepartmental program indevelopmental psychology, special education, and in the Center on Children, Families, and the Law; halftime appointment in the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, Co-editor of the Mental Measurements Yearbook Series.
- Director. Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology, 1986 - 1996. Founding administrator of a 10 agency, APA approved Consortium that provides doctoral internship training in professional psychology.
- Project Director. Federally funded study, Diagnosis and Service Delivery in Childhood Behavior Disorders. Sept. 1. 1986 - Nov. 1. 1990. Three-year study concerning DSM III construct validity and behavioral and academic outcomes for emotionally disturbed youth.
- Associate Professor of Psychology. Texas Woman's University, 1979 - 1984.
- Consulting Psychologist. Burleson Special Services Co-op, 1982 - 1984. Teacher consultation, staff development, child therapy, family therapy, and assessment of childhood emotional disturbance. Twenty hours per week.
- Assistant Professor of Psychology. Syracuse University, 1976 - 1979.
Professional work
Affiliations
Conoley is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She is also a member of the American Educational Research Association and the Society for the Study of School Psychology as of 2004.
Editorships
- Co-editor, 1987 - 1996: Mental Measurements Yearbook
- Co-editor, 1987 - 1996: Tests in Print
- Series Editor, Buros-Nebraska Series on Testing and Measurement, 1984-96:The Computer and Decision Making, The Assessment of Teaching, The Influence of Cognitive Psychology on Testing, Curriculum-based Assessment, Family Assessment
Books
- Conoley, J. C. (Ed.) (1981). Consultation in schools: Theory, research and procedures. New York: Academic Press.
- Conoley, J. C., & Conoley, C. W. (1982). School consultation: A guide to practice and training. New York: Pergamon Press.
- Apter, S. J., & Conoley J. C. (1984). Childhood behavior disorders and emotional disturbance: An introduction to teaching troubled children. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Publishing Co.
- Ehly, S., Conoley, J. C., & Rosenthal, D. (1985) Working with parents of exceptional children. Columbus, OH: Merrill.
- Ronning, R. R., Glover, J., Conoley, J. C., & Witt, J. C. (Eds.) (1987). The influence of cognitive psychology on testing and measurement. New York: Erlbaum
- Conoley, J. C., Kramer, J. J., & Mitchell, J.V. (Eds.) (1988). The supplement to the ninth mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Conoley, J. C., & Kramer, J. J. (Eds.) (1989). The tenth mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Rudner, L. M., Conoley, J. C., & Plake, B. S. (1989). Understanding achievement tests: A guide for school administrators. Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research.
- Kramer, J. J., & Conoley, J. C. (Eds.). (1990). Supplement to the tenth mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Conoley, J. C., & Conoley, C. W. (1992). School consultation: Practice and training (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
- Christenson, S. L., & Conoley, J. C. (Eds.). (1992). Home-school collaboration: Enhancing children's academic and social competence. Washington, DC: National Association of School Psychologists.
- Kramer, J. J., & Conoley, J. C. (1992). The eleventh mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Goldstein, A. P., Harootunian, B., & Conoley, J. C. (1994). Student aggression: Prevention, control, and replacement. New York: Guilford. (Chinese translation in 1995) Conoley, J. C., & Impara, J. (1994). Supplement to the eleventh mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Murphy, L., Conoley, J. C., & Impara, J. (1994). Tests in print. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Conoley, J. C., & Werth. E. (Eds.). (1995). Family assessment. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Conoley, J.C., & Impara, J. (1995). The twelfth mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
- Goldstein, A. P., & Conoley, J. C. (Eds.). (1997). School violence intervention: A practical handbook. New York: Guilford.
- Hughes, J. N., LaGreca, A., & Conoley, J. C. (Eds.) (2001). Handbook of psychological services for children and adolescents. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Conoley, J.C. & Goldstein, A.P. (2004). School violence intervention: A practical handbook (2nd edition). New York: Guilford.
- Conoley, C.W., & Conoley, J. C. (2009). Positive psychology and family therapy. New York: Wiley.
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