Rebecca Weston, Ph.D., is Associate Dean in The Graduate School and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of North Texas, with specializations in interpersonal relationships and quantitative methods. She has conducted research on relationships and partner violence for more than 20 years. Her more recent research on graduate student success is an outgrowth of her service as inaugural director of the Ph.D. program in psychology at UTSA. After seeing firsthand what factors facilitate and impede students’ successful degree completion and career placement, she was excited to have the opportunity to directly impact graduate students’ success in her role at The Graduate School working with a dedicated and passionate group on implementing and evaluating initiatives such as Keep Running with Us, the annual Graduate Student Well-Being Survey, and the Transdisciplinary Teams Grand Challenge.
Keep Running with Us: An Innovative Program at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Designed to Increase Graduate Enrollment of Hispanic/Latinx Students