
Afternoon Breakout Session #2: Matthew Smalarz (History) Higher Education & Research
by Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections
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Assessment and Accreditation Officer, La Salle University
Matthew Smalarz serves as the Accreditation and Assessment Officer and the Accreditation Liaison Officer to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education at La Salle University, which is also his alma mater, in Philadelphia. He is also a co-chair for La Salle's 2024-2025 Middle States self-study re-accreditation process, chairing its evidence inventory working group and serving as its Standard I steering committee liaison. He directed and oversaw its Institutional Research office during the 2023-2024 academic year, completing and submitting numerous programmatic data requests and institutional research reports and surveys, including its IPEDS and US News and World Report surveys. Prior to working at La Salle in these leadership capacities, he worked at Gwynedd Mercy University in suburban Philadelphia as its Director of Assessment and Accreditation and its Accreditation Liaison Officer to Middle States and taught as a full-time Professor of History at Manor College, a four-year Catholic college in Jenkintown, PA in suburban Philadelphia, from 2012 to 2022, where he designed and taught, in both face-to-face and online learning formats, thirteen history and political science courses and served as a department and assessment chair. He received the Outstanding Educator of the Year Award for the 2016-2017 academic year and the Academic Engagement and Innovation Award for the 2017-2018 academic year at Manor College. He earned his Ph.D. in History at Rochester, specializing in Urban American and African American History, and his M.A. and B.A. in History from La Salle. He has presented at numerous national and regional conferences on various aspects of his dissertation research, and has published over twenty academic publications across a range of historical journals, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed academic platforms. He published his first book, a primary research driven institutional history of Manor College, with Arcadia Publishing in late 2021. He is also transforming his dissertation, "The White Island," into an academic monograph, which examines why and how the complex ideological, political and policy making forces that largely shaped and defined Philadelphia's post war city planning initiatives, its municipal governing institutions, and neighborhood civic organizations contributed to and facilitated discriminatory practices, racial segregation and a secession movement across and throughout Northeast Philadelphia's residential, commercial, civic, and institutional establishments and spaces primarily between 1945 and 1990.
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