meet the diversity office staff

Marcia Smith Glasper
Executive Assistant to the President
Director of Diversity and Equity

Office: Buley Library 207
Phone: (203) 392-5899
Email: smithglaspm1@southernct.edu 

Ms. Smith Glasper is the executive assistant to the president and the director for the Office of Diversity and Equity. Her responsibilities include oversight of the agency's affirmative action program. She reviews and drafts policies, implements programs to facilitate sexual harassment training, monitors contract compliance and resolves complaints alleging discrimination.

She has worked in equal opportunity and affirmative action for the past 18 years for a number of state agencies such as Labor, Public Works, and Mental Health and Addiction Services. Ms. Smith Glasper serves as an adjunct professor in the Humanities Department at Housatonic Community College and in the Counseling and School Psychology Department at Southern.

She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Southern Connecticut State University, and a master's in human services administration from Antioch New England Graduate School. She graduated from Bernelli University International Graduate School in 2000 with a dual degree in Religion and Government. Ms. Smith Glasper attended the University of Connecticut's Institute of Public Service in 2002 and received a Certificate in Government Leadership. She is a trained facilitator and instructor with the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) Conversations on Race Project, and cultural competence facilitator with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Multicultural Cultural Competence Cohort VII.

Kenneth Armstrong
Office: Buley Library Room 016O
Phone: (203) 392-5964

Mildred Hernandez
CSU Administrative Assistant
Office: Buley Library Room 208
Phone: (203)392-5491, (203)392-5419
Email: hernandez16@southernct.edu