Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Jeffrey Milem and Larry Harter to its board of directors.
Milem is the dean and a professor at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to this position, Milem was on the faculty of the University of Arizona, University of Michigan, University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University.
As a widely recognized expert in the area of racial dynamics in higher education, Milem has been commissioned to do research by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Harvard Civil Rights Project, the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the American Educational Research Association’s Panel on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education.
Milem’s research focuses on ways in which colleges and universities can be organized to enhance equity, access, and success for all students, the racial context within higher education, and the relationship between how colleges and universities organize themselves and student outcomes.
Harter serves as president of Pueblo Radiology and California Managed Imaging. He also serves on the executive committee of the California Radiology Society and is a councilor of the American College of Radiology.
Harter graduated from Dos Pueblos High School and studied at UC Berkeley before receiving his medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Stanford University and his fellowship at UC San Francisco. He has been a radiologist in Santa Barbara for more than 35 years.
He served on the board of the Santa Barbara County Medical Society and Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation for 12 years. Believing in the value of exercise and fitness, he also served on the Santa Barbara Water Polo Foundation Board, and helped with the Dos Pueblos High School Aquatic Center project.
Harter has been a part of the Santa Barbara community for 40 years, where he and his wife, Nancy, raised their family. He is the proud grandfather of Asher, Isaac, and Max.
The Santa Barbara Education Foundation promotes private support of Santa Barbara’s public education system, serving over 15,000 students in 22 schools. For more information, visit www.santabarbaraeducation.org.