Belinda de la Rosa

Dr. Belinda De La Rosa retired as Director of Assessment for the Offices of Auxiliary, Health, and Wellbeing, Dean of Students, and Student Success & Engagement at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She served as an evaluation consultant to the many units in these offices and provided data analysis and reporting to a variety of units and campus-wide committees for the Division of Student Affairs. In 2015 she won the Student Affairs Excellence in Assessment award for the 2014 Core Alcohol & Other Drug Survey. She is an institutional researcher who has administered large scale studies for the University such as the CIRP Freshman Survey, Your First College Year, and CORE Alcohol and Other Drug survey. In 2012 and 2019, Dr. De La Rosa led and trained a team of researchers that conducted focus group studies of international students. UIUC has had the second largest enrollment of international students in the U.S. and continues to have high enrollments. From 2007- 2009, she was liaison to and Interim Director of the Native American House. At NAH she was an advocate for Native American students and provided leadership in the development of programs, scholarships, and services that not only helped Native students but also educated all students about the history and cultures of American Indians. Dr. De La Rosa was also the Director of the University of Illinois Testing Center for 11 years and Academic Director for Intersections, a living-learning community, for two years. She published on living-learning communities with a team of interdisciplinary researchers. Dr. De La Rosa’s career and publications have focused on underrepresented student access to higher education. She also has a book chapter in press in New Directions in Hispanic College Student Assessment and Academic Preparation, Edited by Alfredo de los Santos, et. al. As a long-time mentor to minority students she has worked with numerous student groups and has been an active mentor in the Illinois Leadership Center and Illinois Promise. Dr. De La Rosa received her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in Higher Education Leadership, a Master of Public Health, and a Bachelor degree in Chicano Studies both from the University of California at Berkeley. Currently she is Treasurer of the Board for Rape Advocacy, Counseling, and Educational Services and on the Community Advisory Board for WILL public radio and tv.

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