Edna B. Chun is an educational leader and award-winning author with two decades of strategic human resource and diversity leadership experience in public higher education. She currently serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she oversees professional development, diversity, affirmative action, talent management and acquisition, employee relations, benefits, compensation, records management, and HRIS. Dr. Chun was recently awarded the 2010 Excellence in Human Resources Award by the South Florida Business Journal for her accomplishments in recruitment, retention, and teambuilding. She was also the recipient of the 2010 Multi-cultural Achievers Award by InFOCUS Magazine.
Dr. Chun is a member of a number of influential national and local boards including the Editorial Board of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), and the Editorial Board of INSIGHT into Diversity Magazine. Dr. Chun holds the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees with High Distinction from the Indiana University School of Music, the Master of Arts degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Oberlin College.
Dr. Chun's award-winning books include Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity, cauthored with Alvin Evans of Kent State University (Jossey-Bass, 2007), and Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education(Jossey-Bass, 2009). Both books received the prestigious Kathryn G. Hansen Publication Award by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) for their contribution to the human resource profession. Dr. Chun's new book, Diverse Administrators in Peril: The New Indentured Class in Higher Education, was just released by Paradigm Publishers. Her most recent co-authored book, Creating a Tipping Point: Strategic Human Resources in Higher Education, will be published by Jossey Bass later this year.
Dr. Chun is also author and co-author of a number of journal articles on talent management, diversity, and inclusion in leading professional journals including Diverse Magazine, Hispanic Outlook, INSIGHT into Diversity and the CUPA-HR Journal. She is a sought-after speaker on diversity, human resources strategies, and affirmative action at national and regional conferences such as the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE), the American Council on Education (ACE), the American Association of Affirmative Action (AAAA), and the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR).
