Dr. Elsa M. Núñez is in her 16 th year as the president of Eastern Connecticut State University.  She came to the University in 2006 following more than 20 years as a senior administrator at such institutions as City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Maine System. Dr. Núñez has been a tenured faculty member of English at Ramapo State College, the College of Staten Island (CUNY), and Lehman College (CUNY). She also holds a faculty position as Professor of English at Eastern.  Author of  “Pursuing Diversity” (1992) and “Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to the Campus” (2014), Dr. Núñez has published numerous articles on language acquisition, diversity and other education issues. Dr. Núñez has firmly established Eastern’s reputation as Connecticut’s only public liberal arts university. Under Dr. Núñez’s leadership, Eastern is ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the top public New England regional university in the North three years in a row, as well as the #1 public regional university in New England for “Best Value”; is recognized by the Princeton Review as a “Best College” in the Northeast. Dr. Núñez received her B.A. from Montclair State College, her M.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her doctorate from Rutgers University.