Dr. Shonda Goward is currently serving as the Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success at the California State University, Office of the Chancellor, where she leads systemwide efforts to improve student outcomes and close equity gaps across all 22 CSU campuses. In this role, she manages a team of staff who develop and implement key initiatives, including the Student Success Dashboard, Certificate Program in Student Success Analytics, and academic preparation programs, while also overseeing external partnerships. She advances the CSU’s student success goals through policy development, data-informed decision-making, and scalable support services, with particular focus on improving outcomes for underserved student populations across the CSU system.
Dr. Goward’s professional focus and research center on strategies for retaining historically excluded students and fostering their academic achievement and well-being. She holds a B.A. with dual majors in journalism and mass communication, and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.A. in English with a concentration in African American Literature from Southern Connecticut State University, and an Ed.D. in higher education administration from The George Washington University. A California native, Dr. Goward’s family migrated to the Bay Area during the Great Migration of the 1940s. She is a first-generation college graduate from a working-class background, and is proud to represent that perspective in her roles in the CSU.
2026 SEM-EP Graduate
Capstone: Literature Review — “Machine Learning and SEM”
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