Albert Ramirez

Adjunct Professor, Chair
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Houston - Psychology

"Due to my commitment to Ethnic Studies during my thirty year tenure at this University, I believe that, as a Department, we are at a critical time with respect to our discipline and its evolution within the University. I believe that our Department can position itself to not only meet this challenge and become a model for other Ethnic Studies Departments across the country."

Dr. Ramirez joined the faculty in the Psychology Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1971. At the University of Colorado, he has held a number of academic administrative positions, including Chair, Social-Personality Graduate Program; Director, Chicano Studies Program; Associate Dean of the Graduate School; and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. He has served on many local, regional, and national boards, including the GRE Board of Directors, where he served as Chair in 1997-1998. In 1997, until his retirement in January 2000, he served as the Director of Multicultural Research and Development in the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education.

His research interests have centered on several inter-related areas: social power and influence, monolithic and pluralistic systems, interracial-groups relations, ethnicity and cultural identity, multicultural education, and fairness and equity issues in standardized testing and assessment in general. His research focus has led to the development of a model which can be used to systematically explore the components of monolithic and pluralistic systems, and to more critically address such issues as diversity in secondary and higher education, and fairness and equity issues in national as well as in international assessment.

Currently, he is engaged in a number of consulting activities. He is also completing a book manuscript entitled The Profe Files: Social Psychological Perspectives on Power, Pluralism, and Chicano Identity. The manuscript utilizes his monolithic-pluralistic systems model as well as his cultural identity model — the discovery transformation model — to describe and analyze the Chicano experience in academia and in this country as well.