April Bjornsen

Assistant Dean, Graduate Student Affairs
UC San Diego

April Bjornsen is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs in the Graduate Division at UC San Diego. Her responsibilities include diversity outreach and recruitment, oversight of graduate admissions, and projects to enhance graduate student life, retention and professional development. She dedicated to equitable practices in graduate education that advance the success of all graduate students, but especially those historically underrepresented in graduate education and the professoriate, from graduate preparation and holistic admissions, to preparing students for the full range of career possibilities in academia and industry. She is committed to faculty development on equitable admissions practices because of the significant role faculty play in making decisions about who matriculates and succeeds at the doctoral level.