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Margaret Kasimatis was elected to the Commission in 2010.  She currently serves as Vice President for Academic Planning and Effectiveness at Loyola Marymount University and holds a faculty appointment in the Psychology Department.  She has held faculty positions at Hope College and Harvey Mudd College, where she also served as Director of Assessment.  More recently, she served as Executive Director of Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.  Kasimatis has published journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics related to social cognition, including social-cognitive theories of motivation, the relationship between emotion and cognition, and the impact of gender terms on perception.  More recently her scholarly work has focused on culture change within universities.  Kasimatis earned her B.A. in Psychology from Loyola Marymount University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Purdue University.