Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez, Ph.D.

Associate Vice President of Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness, Broward College

As an Achieving the Dream Data Coach Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez advises the Community College of the District of Columbia.

Dr. Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez is the associate vice president for Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness at Broward College. Rincones-Gómez oversees the institution's research, planning and effectiveness processes to help improve student access, engagement, retention, and completion while helping to address the factors that impact student success and designing specific interventions and/or policy to assist the College's students.

Prior to Broward College, Dr. Rincones-Gómez was the national director of data coaching for Achieving the Dream, Inc. where he was responsible for directing all aspects of Achieving the Dream's data coaching, including recruiting, training, and mentoring a team of more than 30 senior data coaches. He has more than 16 years of national and international leadership experience working with student success, assessment, strategic planning, and evaluation-related projects from the private, nonprofit and higher education sectors.

He has been awarded with several honors and educational scholarships at the national and international level. He has also written a variety of publications in Spanish, English, and Chinese on leadership, organizational engineering, and evaluation approaches that bring stakeholder groups together. In addition, he has significant teaching experience at the developmental, undergraduate, and graduate levels.

Educational Background: He earned his Ph.D. in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design receiving a Provost's Special Recognition and an Outstanding Dissertation Award by Phi Delta Kappa Honor Society. He earned his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and his Specialist and Master's degrees in Project Management in Engineering with Summa Cum Laude Honors. Furthermore, he received a President's Special Recognition for his second Master's degree in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Design.