Jane Close Conoley is an American academic administrator who serves as the president of California State University, Long Beach.
[1] Conoley was awarded a New York State Regents full scholarship and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, with minors in biology and philosophy, from the College of New Rochelle.
[3] Prior to being selected as the interim chancellor for UC Riverside, Conoley was the dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara from January 2006 to December 30, 2012, a position which she publicly stated she intended to resume upon the completion of her tenure as interim chancellor of UC Riverside.
[3] On January 29, 2014, Conoley was announced as the new president of California State University, Long Beach.
[2] She is also a member of the American Educational Research Association and the Society for the Study of School Psychology, as of 2004.