Eileen McGarry

Executive Director, Career Services
Career development
Diversity talent acquisition
Program and talent development
Employer and community relations
Team leadership

Eileen McGarry is the executive director of Career Services at UNLV. With over 20 years of experience in community relations and higher education leadership, McGarry specializes in enhancing professional development and student success.

McGarry provides strategic direction and leadership for multiple stakeholders on campus to mobilize student career readiness and alumni career advancement. McGarry joined UNLV in 1988, directing the Career Services program for the dynamic growing university until 2010. McGarry spent the next few years as Career Services executive director for the University of Arizona and the University of California, Merced, before returning to UNLV in 2019. Since then, McGarry has directed the program for over 30,000 students and 10 staff that drives and supports the university's vision as a Top Tier Research Institution.

McGarry additionally works under the Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, developing and accelerating opportunities for students and alumni that serve a broad based employer constituency.

M.A., Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, University of Arizona
B.A., Psychology, University of Arizona
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Marta Meana

Professor, Department of Psychology
Former Acting President, UNLV
Former Dean, UNLV Honors College
Women's Health & Human Sexuality
Higher Education Leadership

Marta Meana is a licensed clinical psychologist whose groundbreaking research has reshaped clinical approaches to the field of women's health and human sexuality. She has published two books and close to 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her expertise has been sought by media nationwide, including the New York Times and The Oprah Winfrey Show. 

Meana is also a respected administrator, teacher, advisor, and mentor. A professor of psychology at UNLV since 1997, Meana was named dean of UNLV’s Honors College in 2012 and previously served as senior advisor to the university president. She was appointed acting president of UNLV, effective July 1, 2018 through August 2020.

Meana has earned multiple university, state and national awards during her career, including the Masters and Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award for work in her field. 

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Women’s Health), University of Toronto
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, McGill University
M.A. in English Literature, McGill University
B.A. in English Literature and Psychology, McGill University
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Stefani Relles

Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology & Higher Education
Writing
College access
Equity
Low-income students
Higher education policy

Stefani Relles comes to the UNLV College of Education with her Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy from the University of Southern California. Her research pertains to college access and equity for underserved student populations. She is primarily interested postsecondary writing remediation policy reform. She brings a pre-K-20 perspective to the study of college writing and digital literacies preparation with students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. Her methods include ethnographic approaches to language and literacies research, discourse analyses, and the development of online qualitative research techniques to accommodate data collected in virtual spaces.

B.A., English, Northwestern University
M.Ed., University of New Hampshire
Ph.D., Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California
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