Dr. Yueh-Ting Lee began his job as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on August 8, 2007.
Previously, he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Minot State University in North Dakota. There he was responsible for the college's academic and administrative planning; budgeting; implementing college and university policies; faculty and staff recruitment, evaluation and development; student recruitment and relations; curricular development; student learning assessment; academic program review; accreditation; grant writing and fund raising activities; promoting diversity and international education; external relations and outreach; and equipment and facilities.
Dr. Lee has served on university accreditation steering committees, and has been an Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) and Program to Evaluate and Advance Quality (PEAQ) consultant evaluator for the Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association for several years.
Dr. Lee's prior experience includes Chair and Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Minnesota State University (2000-2005). He served as Director and Associate Professor of Multi-Cultural and Ethnic Studies at Westfield State College in Massachusetts (1994-2000), and Deputy Director and Assistant Professor in the psychology program and laboratory at Philadelphia University (1991-1994).
Academically, Dr. Lee has produced seven scholarly books and more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He has been awarded numerous federal and other grants. His research involves interpersonal and intergroup/cultural perception, including social cognition, social identity and justice, cross-cultural conflict, stereotypes and stereotyping, stigma, personality and individual differences, altruism and leadership, stress, and behavioral medicine.
Dr. Lee served on the boards of the 80-20 Asian and Pacific American organization, the Asian and Pacific Cultural Communities, and the Latin-American and Multi-Ethnic Association for Networking and Opportunities in Southern and Central Minnesota. He also served on the boards for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative in Mankato, Minnesota; the American Red Cross for the Mid-Dakota Chapter in Minot; and the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce.
In North Dakota, he was actively involved in reservations and tribal colleges. He was honored and very proud to be adopted into the Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nation on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota in 2006 and was given the American Indian name "har-shi-hra-ri" in Hidatsa or "Elk" in English.
Dean Lee received his bachelor's degree in English from South Central University in China, his master's degree in psychology from Beijing Normal University, and his doctorate in social psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.